Emma moved to Boston at the end of July 2023 for a Graduate school program right when Andrew signed a temporary lease because he wanted to move out of Boston. We matched on a dating app just 10 days later (which thank you, God, for using that of all things as your method of divine intervention because for a girl who just moved to Boston and downloaded a dating app for the first time to meet a guy who was about to move away from Boston who rarely ever got on the app that his friends made him download as part of a bet... Literally only God could have done that!).
We went on our first date on August 20, made our relationship official on October 15, and by Christmas, we were doing hometown dates to meet each others families.
In the spring of 2024, Andrew went out to Utah to be a ski-bum / remote worker, and Emma ditched school to go visit him for a few days on what was our first of many adventure trips. She told Andrew that she loved him for the first time in the airport right as she was leaving to go back to Boston.
Later that spring, Emma graduated from Harvard, got a job, and we both decided to stay around in Boston for a little bit longer.
That summer was the summer of adventures and falling more in love! Andrew and Emma went to Slovenia, Croatia, and on a backpacking trip with friends through Thailand, Laos and then on to India to celebrate the wedding of one of Emmas longtime friends. It was a summer full of travel, adventure, a few communicable diseases (photo story for reference), and confirming that life together is so so so sweet.
On December 20, Andrew proposed to Emma while we were in Kentucky before Christmas. It was a sweet day filled with family, celebrations, good friends and starting to plan our life together as The Kings!