July 16, 2022, we were both at a wedding between two of our childhood friends (shoutout to Andrew and Anna, now groomsman and bridesmaid). We didn’t know each other, had never crossed paths, and both of us would have been perfectly content to just party the night away.

We were seated at the same table for the reception. There were six other people around us, but as the night went on they seemed to fade away, and it became more and more like our first date.

Neither of us knew then that we had just met our future husband, or wife, and that both of us had just met our new best friend; and as it turns out, we wouldn’t know for quite some time after.