Our story began in August 2018, kicking off our school year in the Syracuse University Marching Band. On the first day of band camp, the flutes and drumline sat together in the endzone during a water break and we started chatting! We bonded over our love of video games and music and became fast friends. Although our first date wasn’t until the architecture formal in the Spring of freshman year, it was clear to literally everyone around us that our relationship was budding well before then.

During our time in college, we began interweaving our lives together and spent countless hours together and with our friends. We dedicated our time to our shared community and both ended up leading the bands that led to our meeting. We even experienced the typical struggles of long-distance thanks to the pandemic and the last year of Mita’s architecture program. While Mita finished up at SU, Rick moved to NYC settling into our new home.

After graduation, we both took jobs in the building industry. Rick as an Acoustic Engineer and Mita as an Architect (associate AIA ifykyk), maybe one day we’ll open our own firm together! But for now, we live in NYC with our little family of us and our kitties Tank and Comet.

Once we settled in we decided to go on our first couples trip to Vancouver, where both of us had planned to propose. Rick popped the question just 16 hours before Mita’s planned proposal. Leading us to now and the future, we look forward to sharing our special day with everyone! Thank you for being our friends!