Our Story
Early days
It took about a year to go from first date to dating, thanks to the start of the pandemic, Emily’s extended stay in New York, David’s two-month road trip, and an all-consuming federal election. But once we got there, there was no turning back. We spent the 2020 holiday season filled with excitement, learning everything about each other, walking in loops around the Silver Lake Reservoir, planning trips together that made us giddy, and gushing to loved ones over FaceTime.
Dating
Emily said “I love you” first: once, accidentally (while shoving a s’mores in her mouth), and later, intentionally (she thought she might not make it through a bumpy boat ride). David, on the other hand, wooed her with consistent romance: he got Emily’s #1 celeb crush to slide into her DMs, dropped surprise packages at her door just to say hello, swept her off her feet with merengues and salsas, and even shipped in bagels from her favorite breakfast spot in New York.
Our three years together have been filled with sweet besos by day, and dances while we brush our teeth at night. We’ve built memories in meaningful places near and far—from Valle de Guadalupe in Mexico to Liberté in Paris, down to the taco spot at the bottom of our hill—and we know we are only just getting started.
Engagement!
In December 2023, David called Emily one evening to convince her he had won his company’s annual holiday raffle prize: a trip for two to Kauai.
The night before they left, he clued Emily in on an activity he lined up for the trip: a special photoshoot, eating tropical fruit on a beach at sunset. Though David thought this was the weakest part of his proposal plan, Emily had no doubt in her mind this photoshoot was real. One year earlier, she had hired a surprise photographer to follow them around in Paris, while they consumed pastries in front of landmarks. (See banner photo, above). This, David told her, was “payback.”
When they left for the photoshoot, Emily grabbed a pineapple from the hotel lobby, asserting to everyone around that she needed more tropical fruits. The photographer laughed when she announced that she came with props, and instead, asked her to put the pineapple down, so that she could get ready for a pose running off into the sunset. Emily was positioned with her back to David, thought nothing of it, and then whirled back to reach for him on the count of three—only to see this was not a tropical fruits photoshoot, after all.
She fell in shock right next to David in the sand, who was waiting down on one knee. And of course, she said yes.
(But only after two minutes of questioning if he really won a trip to Hawaii).
