Ben & I met during our first week of college at The University of Iowa. Back in 2012 as freshman, we met through Annie’s roommate and became fast friends. We spent the first week of school touring the campus and learning where our classes would take place and reminiscing about high school and our hometowns. After getting busy with classes and adjusting to college life, we lost touch for about a month. As luck would have it we ran into each other at a café (RIP Capanna Coffee). Annie was killing time between classes and Ben was late to his first class (so he decided to stop and get a muffin?). After that we went on our first date at a frozen yogurt shop (RIP Orange Leaf). To paint the picture, our first date was at 10pm on a Thursday after Ben finished with water polo practice (picture lots of sweat and chlorine). We were both wearing sweatpants! We became the classy, fancy couple you know today later on in life.

We both graduated from college in May 2016. Lived with our parents for a year. Then we moved in together on August 1st, 2017. We adopted Arlo, our beautiful (extraordinary, playful, happy) dog on February 23rd, 2020 right in time for the pandemic! Ben proposed to Annie on October 9th, 2020 in the Northwoods of Wisconsin (one of our favorite places). After 8 years of dating we knew we did not want a long engagement. We cannot wait to celebrate with you all on August 21st, 2021.