Witt and V met the old fashioned way...online (V knows that it was on Hinge, but Witt offers a different answer each time she is asked): one fine evening in March of 2019, a wonderful time before lockdowns and quarantines, the world was a different place and V messaged Witt (on Hinge, V insists) asking how her day was going. Witt saw the picture of a handsome man standing in front of the Perito Moreno glacier in Southern Argentina...a place she herself had visited not four months before and found herself writing back. A date was promptly set up in that exchange, and the rest, as they say, is history.

V decided to propose doing something he and Witt share a mutual love of...hiking. V took Witt upstate to New York's Bull Hill, which boasts gorgeous views of the Hudson Valley and hoped to surprise her at the top of the mountain with a proposal followed by a weekend in a cozy B&B in the little village of Cold Spring. Alas, like many best laid plans, Witt's curiosity piqued over the hike owing to V's fussing with a tripod to get the "perfect picture". And, if that wasn't a bit of a give away, while V isn't exactly known to travel light, his oversized hiking backpack did nothing to belie it's contents (a bottle of champagne complete with flutes...and clothes for Witt appropriate for a nice dinner). But, as luck would have it, it was a gorgeous day for a hike, and even though Witt read the proverbial tea leaves, she agreed to make an honest man of V.