Our story began like most relationships do nowadays, on a dating app. Nate messaged Beth about a prompt on her profile about reading the Stormlight Archives (one of his favorite book series) which led to maybe a day of text conversation before we were setting up a date to meet in person.

Our first date was at Alchemy a few days after Christmas. What was meant to be a meetup for a quick drink turned into five hours of nonstop conversation. It just felt like we clicked together so perfectly and naturally! We talked about books, our lives, and our dreams for the future including all of the features we would want to include in our dream houses (both of us agreed the library was the most important part).

The next few months were filled with both of us commuting back and forth between Omaha and Lincoln to see each other for dates and weekends, before Beth decided she had had quite enough of only seeing Nate one or two times a week and moved in with him. With that we became a blended family as Beth's beagle Wilbur joined Nate's labs Jessie and Syl.

When Nate proposed, it was the most perfect place possible, on the property that we had recently bought, the place where we hope to build the house that we have been dreaming of since our first date (all the engagement photos were taken there as well a few months later!)

Now we are getting ready to start writing the next chapter of our story and we are so excited to celebrate it with all of you!