August 7, 2019. First date. Thomas Sweet ice cream shop. Alex is 35 minutes early. Zara is 25 minutes late. Zara gets coffee oreo ice cream. Alex internally frets about her apparent caffeine addiction. Alex orders vanilla. Zara judges ruthlessly. Google Maps shows an 11-minute walk to the Georgetown Waterfront; ice cream melts stunningly fast in DC’s 97% humidity. By the Potomac River, Zara and Alex share their life stories -- though none of their ice cream -- with one another. Day after week after month, they finally shared ice cream and more. After a year and a half, Zara shared that she would have a single week of vacation in early July (here’s looking at you, merciless medical school). Henceforth, Alex spun a world-wide web of lies -- spanning friends from California to Colorado to the entire East Coast to Iceland to Taiwan -- to concoct a surprise proposal plan worthy of Zara during that July week...in Iceland! The rest is history and herstory. We cannot thank you enough for walking alongside us on the journey so far, and, Inshallah, many more years to come. We are so very excited to celebrate this union of #AtoZ with you.