Christmastime 2012. Everyone is in Sarasota visiting their families. Beata makes plans to meet up with her friends at Geckos. Both Maggie and Dan decide to join. Back story: Maggie and Beata have been friends for 19 years and Dan and Beata went to art school together and have been friends since. However, Maggie and Dan had never met before that night. As soon as everyone got there the secret texts between Beata, Monika, Maggie, and Dan began. It was like middle school "who is your friend?" "she is cute" "isn't he cute?" "you should talk to him" "he is cute" etc. Maggie and Dan hit it off. They spent the rest of the night talking and dancing. Maggie invited Dan to her sister-in-laws Christmas party the following day. Dan was the first to arrive at the party, wearing a button up and a tie, and came with a bottle of red wine and a bottle of white wine (he wasn't sure which the family prefers) and Maggie knew right there that he was awesome.
After the Christmas party Maggie and Dan spent as much time as they could together. Dan was in the Air Force and living in Valdosta, Georgia and Maggie was attending Law School in Chicago. Dan came up to visit Maggie a bunch and they started a long distance relationship for about 3 months. Then the long distance relationship became an even longer distance relationship when Dan was stationed in Bagram Afghanistan for 6 months. They made it work and face timed twice a day. When Dan returned to the States he had 6 more months in the Air Force. Last June Dan started his residency in Chicago and the two finally got to live together. They have a cute apartment in Wicker Park, Chicago and recently adopted their first dog Astrid.
It was Dan's birthday party. The theme was the 80's and Dan was dressed as Marty McFly from Back to the Future. Maggie had no idea that Dan would propose because who proposes during their own birthday party, but he did. Dan sat everyone down in front of the tv and showed a slideshow he prepared and at the end asked Maggie to marry him. Maggie was very surprised and of course said yes.