We met in Washington, D.C., having spent the better part of our adult lives in the Nation's Capitol but never meeting previously. We operated in different circles, but came together working for our home state of Minnesota. Once Brittany stubbornly pushed past his shyness and Nick figured out that the hyphenated name was not from a marriage — and the ring on her ring finger was not a wedding band, we fell fast and hard.

Many trips to the lake, Luke Combs playlists, travel adventures, long days and late nights at work later, Nick proposed on a pier in Old Town Alexandria, VA, surrounded by our closest friends in the area.