The story of how we ended up here begins 2 years before the two of us even became friends, at a little girl's birthday party.

Emily's youngest brother, Kiyo, was at the birthday party of one of his best friends, Emily (another weird coincidence!). Over the course of the day he developed a crush on the cool older boy there. Julian, meanwhile, was tagging along with his best friend (and Best Man!) Ian to his sister's birthday party.

Flash forward 2 years, it's our junior year of high school and we're in Texas for a drill competition. We had existed in the same spaces for most of high school, but this was the first time we ever really interacted with each other. This began months of friendship and budding feelings as we spent nearly every day together.

Fun fact: we got together the week before school (and then the world) shut down for COVID. The first few months consisted solely of texts and phone calls, learning more about each other while isolating from the rest of the world. Our first date, and many of our dates for the first year, was to lunch at chick-fil-a and eating in parking lots.

We both have done lots of growing up together being as young as we were when we started dating. Major life decisions happened, careers started, and a little family (3 adorable fur babies!) of our own. We can't wait to see what else waits for us in this life together.