“People that love and know themselves, their needs, their feelings, their limits, and can open up even though it’s scary. Then use that to connect with the other on a deep level. Oh and all that other stuff people say.” “Kathryn liked your answer.” Was our first interaction. Within a few messages, our texts were the length of a novel. Within a few days, our phone conversation's were hours long. Within a few more days, Joe traveled to Boston to see if this girl actually existed during her last few weeks in grad school. His first words to her in person, “Oh my gosh, you’re real.” Kate planned the first day: A walking history tour of Boston with stopping points at the city’s best breweries. Shortly after the date began, Kate’s secret came out - she doesn’t like history or beer. She planned the day because she knew Joe did. This interaction revealed to Joe what so many others know, Kate’s angelic quality of selflessness. And her cunning quality of getting her date drunk on the first date after he drove all night to see what she’s really like. She learned that his loyalty is fierce; and he learned that her heart is genuine. And so it started, the unlikely romance of a small town boy raised in the mountains of Western Colorado and Kathryn Webster, lover of all things luxury from Southern Connecticut. The fire burned inside as it did in the fireplace when he read the novel he authored to her in the first few weeks of their romance. Things flowed between them as perfectly as water flowed over Niagara Falls where he asked her to be official; the water passed the hull of the boat on Lake George where he said “I love you,”; the air filled the house as the front door remained open when he was moving into her Greenwich home. The cold melted to love when he kneeled and asked her to marry him on a winter night in Santa Fe. Kate loves most Joe’s lifelong curiosity, brilliant imagination, and beautiful big and genuine family. She loves the fierce feeling of security and protection she never knew she needed until now. She admires Joe’s ability to face life’s adventures head-on, approach each day with optimism, and shoot for the stars with anything he sets his mind to. Joe loves Kate’s genuine and deep-seated kindness, her strength and how bold she is. He loves that she goes from enjoying herself with the world’s most successful people to having a meaningful connection with the least fortunate in the community. She never ceases giving and seeing the good in everyone, all situations and life. Through international travels spanning three continents, tandem biking and skiing and hiking, Masters graduations for both Kate and Joe with new jobs on the horizon, camping in torrential downpours, and Joe enduring the initiation test of nearly everyone in Greenwich, their love grew deeper and their joy with each other rose higher until this moment on May 16th, 2026 when they will be bound together for life. For only then can they take this love to where it’s destined: to beyond the stars.