Melissa and Luke met playing pick-up ultimate frisbee in Mobile, Alabama, while Melissa was working on her Bachelor's at the University of South Alabama and Luke was working an engineering co-op. During the Fall of 2016, Melissa and her frisbee friends attended a South Alabama tailgate. Someone mentioned, "Hey we should invite Luke - he was fun to hang out with!" Melissa remembered that they exchanged snapchats in the spring, and messaged him to join the group after work. She gave him her phone number and when he got there, Melissa and Luke found themselves chatting the entire game. About a month and a half later of dating (before Luke was going to head back to Georgia Tech after his final co-op term), it dawned on them that they needed to make a decision on the status of their relationship. They decided to take a chance on love, and long-distance! Ever since, they've withstood long- (MS<->GA), and even longer, distances (MN<->GA/VA), enduring graduate school, moving in together in 2019 with a 3-month old puppy, buying a house and starting another graduate program. And yet... their story has just begun!