How We Met

Not unlike any other Friday night in Bloomington, most of our friends were at Kilroy's to start off the night. After being at Basic training all summer, James was catching up with friends and Lambda brothers on the patio while Jen was just a few feet away hanging out with friends who she met working a marketing job in Bloomington that week. Almost immediately the friend groups collided due to one of Jen's new friends dating one of James' fraternity brothers. (Thanks Bridget and Carson!!) If this was a meet-cute, we would say it was love at first sight, but instead we'll tell you that one of James' friends (we won't mention him here, but we're sure it will come up at the wedding) was flirting pretty hard with Jen and to this day still says it could have been him instead of James. Luckily for James though, Jen only had eyes for him. They spent the night getting to know each other and bar hopping from Roy's to Brother's and then ending up at Sports where James was a gentleman and walked Jen's friend home for her even though he didn't want to (Jen likes to say that that is the moment that she knew that James was different than all of the other guys and James likes to say that that's how Jen knows that he really liked her). From that day on, they have been inseparable even when living in separate states and depending on sporadic weekend visits to see each other (James did an extra semester at IU while Jen was working in Chicago and then was stationed at Laughlin AFB for UPT for seven months while Jen was traveling for work in Dallas).

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