Anyone who has gone to school in Washington, DC knows how small of a town it can be.

We thought we met for the first time at an Adams Morgan bar in January 2017. Kevin asked for Esther's number and Esther promised him she was not giving him a fake number. We hadn't even scheduled our first date before we realized that we had actually met through our mutual friend, Meg, several years before. Apparently we had not paid attention to each other then.

In our early days of dating we learned that we had a surprising number of overlapping interests: running, tennis, pop punk music, politics and policy, food, loud concerts, frolicking in the woods, cold weather, drinking in rooftop pools, fantasy novels, trying to befriend street cats, and scrolling the internet for dumb memes.

We also were able to support one another and commiserate as we navigated the daunting task of putting our recently-acquired undergraduate degrees to use in one of the most competitive and expensive cities in the country. A year into dating, we decided to move in together, and eventually started making enough money to start saving, traveling, and thinking about our future in the long term.

In 2020, like everyone else, we had to reevaluate our plans. We moved into a new apartment, bought a car, and Esther left a dissatisfying job for a fresh start in a Master's of Public Policy program back at GW. Eighteen months later, Kevin left his also-dissatisfying job to pursue a Master's of Environmental Science and Policy degree at Northeastern University in Boston. Esther finished her degree and joined him several months later.

Now we're settling into our lives in Boston with the newest addition to our family, Jase, the teethy and cuddly mutt who takes up an inordinate amount of our time. But we don't mind--he is very endearing.

We got engaged in June 2023 after summiting Snake Mountain in Vermont while looking out across Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains. And now we're here! Planning our wedding in the Poconos and we've invited you because you are very special to us! Thanks for reading!

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