Kate was working in a gelato shop on Pearl Street in Boulder when Noah saw her for the first time. Kate can only remember seeing Noah if she tries really hard, because anyone who has worked customer service knows that everyone is annoying and no one is cute. What she can remember clearly is meeting him later at a Fourth of July party and trying to impress him. Noah immediately loved her sense of humor. Kate wanted to get to know him because she thought he was really cute.
For the next two years, we kept seeing each other around, mostly just enjoying joking around together. There were memorable run-ins, like bumping into each other in Austin and being greeted with a sarcastic “what’s heee doing here?”, or realizing we were the only two people at a party wearing costumes.
After Kate had moved back to Colorado, Noah took a chance and invited her to a party at a roller rink. That night, Kate kept pretending to be an old-school comedian, joking about her “wife’s lasagna” and then falling on purpose, as if the lasagna was so bad she died. We spent the rest of the night skating together and joking nonstop.
We started to fall in love by sharing art and music, but mostly by trying to make each other laugh. Around that time, Kate had just adopted two middle-aged lap dogs, Peaches and Poodie. Noah wasn’t so sure about them at first, but they quickly won him over, and we all became inseparable.
A few months into dating, the pandemic struck. Kate was back in school after taking a break, and Noah was in the early stages of a career transition. The pandemic meant spending a lot of time with just us and the dogs, and it also gave us the opportunity to get to know each other’s families.
As the pandemic began to lift, we moved to Salt Lake City and lived together for the first time. We didn’t love living there, but we loved going through it together. During that period, we both decided we wanted to go back to school to hone our careers, and we set our sights on New York City (where Kate is originally from!).
After moving to New York, we came into our own and continued building a life together. Kate became a nurse in the ER of the storied Bellevue Hospital, bringing home wild stories to share at the end of each shift, and Noah got to work alongside designers he had long looked up to. Through it all, we cheered each other on and supported each other through the ups and downs. We were happy, established, and had been talking about a long future together for years, so it was time. We shared a magical day in Beacon, New York, where Noah proposed to Kate on the banks of Fishkill Creek. Of course it was an easy yes, and marked a new chapter of the beautiful life we’ll build with each other ⧫