We met in early 2018 at Arianna Frank's and Lily Cunningham's game night. Ari and Lily knew Tristan from work and introduced us. We immediately hit it off and exchanged numbers "as friends". We then texted every day for weeks. Meanwhile, Tristan was assimilated into the Frank clan right away.
The whole summer of 2018, we would play volleyball, euchre, and even filmed a Camp Half Blood show together. In the Fall of 2018, Tristan asked me to come to a wedding he was in as his "plus 1" and I had to keep telling people at that wedding that we weren't dating and were "just friends", even though we both had crushes on one another. That night, we admitted our feelings for each other and after a conversation the next day, we shook hands, literally, and embarked on our love story.
We got engaged in July of 2023 on a beautiful summer night with Rachael's family there to celebrate the proposal. The past five years we have been together have been bliss and we are so excited to enter into marriage with each other and bring God to the center of our relationship. Thank you for being a part of our story!