Jeff and Caitlin matched on the dating app, Hinge! Jeff's leading fact, "We'll get along if: you don't take yourself too seriously, love live music & comedy, and you have a healthy and active lifestyle." Caitlin's leading fact, "My simple pleasures: making it all the way to my destination standing on the "L" without holding on to anything. 3-time success story."

Jeff and Caitlin met in person once, and due to COVID timing, immediately started dating.

Caitlin met Jeff's family...a day after Caitlin met Jeff.

Jeff met Caitlin's family...and they made him do a group tik tok dance. It went viral.

Jeff and Caitlin take their first big trip together, a 3 week road trip...a lot of time with Caitlin in the car...and they made it out successfully!

Jeff and Caitlin spent 2021 falling in love, finding out Jeff's weird matched Caitlin's weird, and deciding they were serious about a lifelong partnership.

Jeff and Caitlin took their first trip out of the country together to Costa Rica. Travel is a big love for each of them individually, and now they have made it a priority in their relationship together!

Caitlin and Jeff worked on their first creative project together. Jeff wrote and scored the music and Caitlin performed in their friend Christine's contemporary trampoline show. They look forward to continuing to work creatively together throughout their marriage!

Jeff and Caitlin moved into their first apartment together in Chicago to the Avondale neighborhood.

Jeff supported Caitlin as she moved to New York for the summer to perform in her first circus contract as an acrobat for three months.

When Caitlin got back from New York, they decided to get serious....okay not baby making serious, they borrowed the baby...but serious about making plans for their future together!

And on the coldest day of the year, in the comfiest robes known to man, Jeff proposed to Caitlin with a ring they had designed together.