We're Getting Married!

Katherine and Stephen first met in the summer of 2012, during a Sunday afternoon Team Connecticut olympic weightlifting training session, but it took a good 6 months – and, ultimately, one killer batch of homemade brownies – before sparks started to fly. Their first “date” was at Orem’s Diner in March 2013, where Katherine and Stephen discovered a mutual love of breakfast foods. A long-distance romance ensued, strengthened by clandestine meetings at the Dunkin Donuts on Rt. 7 following Friday and Sunday team trainings. With Katherine living and working in New York City and Stephen hard at work on his PhD dissertation at UCONN Storrs, the couple traded off weekends traveling 4 hours each way to visit each other – for 5.5 years – before finally moving in together in Norwalk, CT in August 2018. Katherine and Stephen got engaged in June 2019 at the Trout Brook Valley Preserve in Weston, CT. Stephen did not kneel, and Katherine did not cry – it was perfect!