Like every good college love story, this one started with a little football, a little dance, and a tiny bit of social media magic.

Blaise was playing football at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Irene was dancing on the Husker Scarlets Dance Team. They were both busy on game days, sharing the same fields but never actually meeting. That is, until the summer before their sophomore year when they both ended up at Lake Okoboji.

Irene may or may not have spotted Blaise from afar but decided to keep her cool and not say hi. A few days later, Blaise liked one of Irene’s Instagram posts from the weekend. That tiny double-tap was all the encouragement she needed to ask their mutual friend, Lucy Kupka (a fellow Scarlet dating football player Grant Tagge), if Blaise was single. He was.

They started talking that summer while Irene was in MN and Blaise in NE. By the time school started back up in the fall, Blaise drove straight to Kappa Alpha Theta to pick Irene up. They spent their first unofficial date cruising around campus, talking about football and dance, how they happened to have the same major, and even Nash Hutmacher’s pet goose, Larry.

That drive around campus turned into countless more, whether cruising through Lincoln, road-tripping to Iowa or Minnesota, or most recently, moving to Kansas City. And now, here they are—ready to celebrate the best chapter yet, surrounded by the people who mean the most to them.

B&I

Wedding Day

2:00 PM

Ceremony

4:30 PM

Reception