On a Thursday night IRL (in real life) at a bar in Brooklyn. She was with her friends for a night out, and he got off at the wrong train stop and was looking for a place to kill time before heading home. She caught his eye and he claimed a chair close to hers. He then asked if she could watch his belongings. She asked him his name. He dragged his chair over. And the rest was history.

Shortly after and she almost bailed. But just two hours before the date she decided to slap on some lipstick, swap out her sweatpants for a nice skirt, and texted him, “Ok, let’s do it!” While usually super cool, calm and collected - he found himself sweating the whole evening. But it’s ok, because she was a little nervous too.

And she didn’t see it coming. At all. Just a few days before he got the notice he was selected for promotion to Sergeant, and what a coincidence that the date selected was exactly a year since having met! He decided to double down on making the day even more memorable by popping the question. He got down on one knee and she could barely believe it. And with wide eyes and happy tears she said, “Yes.. yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!”