“As many epic love stories start, Zak & I met in a cafeteria during an internship in 2019. Both a little apprehensive to start flirting with a coworker, real sparks didn’t fly until we ‘coincidentally’ ran into each other at Summerfest later that summer. Our connection was clear and easy right away, but our timing and locations weren’t – shortly after a few amazing summer dates, I left for my senior year at Notre Dame and Zak left for his at UW. Zak invited me to visit for a game day in September of 2019. After a weekend of meeting friends and family, bar hopping, and jumping around… It was obvious we liked each other. A lot. We FaceTimed every day after that & visited as often as we could until March of 2020. Well, we all know what happened next. Being in the same city for longer than a week at a time was a blessing in disguise. Once we were both back in Milwaukee, we were inseparable! On November 19, 2022 (a date uniquely situated between our anniversary & my birthday), Zak somehow snuck a surprise past me… He popped the question at my family’s lake home in Palmyra, WI – the location of our first date.”