The backstory of how we met :)

It all starts back when Malachi was growing up. He made a friend very young named Michael Hill, who would grow to be his best friend throughout his life, where they would both go to college at the University of Wyoming.

Simultaneously, Sophia met her best friend Emily Hensiek during her freshman/sophomore year and very quickly because bosom friend (iykyk). Emily and her were inseparable throughout high school and remained very close in college, when Emily went to the University of Wyoming and Sophia went to Colorado Christian University.

Fast forward a couple months, Emily met Michael at church in Wyoming and after dating for awhile they decided to get married! This set in motion a sequence of events that led Malachi and Sophia to meet each other.

Michael asked Malachi to stand by him in his wedding as a groomsman and Emily asked Sophia to be a bridesmaid. As the wedding planning went along, Sophia kept hearing about how great Malachi was, but that he was dating someone (boooo) and Sophia had just ended a relationship of her own. Because of this, they both were not in the position of looking for other options haha.

So the rehearsal dinner went ahead and Malachi and Sophia finally met (she thought he was super handsome :))), but sadly unavailable). Malachi taught her some swing dancing steps Emily and Michael wanted the wedding party to know so she wouldn't be lost during the reception and the next day, 11/22/22, they walked down the aisle together in Emily and Michael's wedding, parting ways at the end of the night and carrying on with their lives.

Another fast forward, this one a year later. Malachi was now a free man and wanted to move to Denver, CO. Michael and Emily worked together to set up a (partially) blind date between him and Sophia when he got there. The first date lasted over 6 hours and spanned a coffee shop and walking to a Chick-fil-A, and the rest as they say is history!! :))

Sophia likes to joke with Malachi that she'll walk down the aisle with him twice, but this time she'll be the one in white :)