Our story begins in the spring of 2019. Maddie was living at home getting ready to start occupational therapy school and Mark was in Atlanta for his bootcamp at Georgia Tech. Our story is a dating app success story: we matched on Bumble and connected over a love of the band Ghost. We explored many coffee shops, restaurants, museums, and parks around Atlanta together throughout the spring. Mark returned to Birmingham after he finished his bootcamp, but fate brought us back together in July when he landed a job at Emory University back in Atlanta. For the next four years, we laid the foundation of a partnership built upon laughter, food, and puppy kisses from Otis, who is our everything. On the afternoon of April 20th, Maddie was stuck working late at the hospital. Maddie texted Mark, "Sorry, I know we have dinner plans. Going to be late." Mark replied, "Do not worry about a thing. I've got it covered." Little did Maddie know, Mark had the most special night of their lives planned. When Maddie finally arrived, Mark had prepared one of our favorite Mark-and-Maddie-original recipes, Asian Salmon bowls. He led Maddie to the apartment balcony to enjoy the perfect spring evening over a shared meal. While Mark went inside to gather the food, Maddie noticed that Otis was nowhere to be found. All of a sudden, Otis ran down from upstairs to greet Maddie. Mark said, "Maddie, look! He has something for you." Maddie looked down at Otis and, to her surprise, saw that Otis had a ring on his collar. It was the easiest yes of Maddie's life. And the rest was history!