Nate and Caroline first met in the summer of 2021. Both had moved to Washington D.C. from Cleveland a few months prior to their first date and, despite going to westside Cleveland Catholic sister schools, the two had never met even though they grew up one town over from one another. In fact, it was a meet cute so unlikely that Nate’s grandparents could only describe it as “serendipitous” the first time he told them that his new girlfriend was from Cleveland. Unsurprisingly, once they met, getting to know each other came easy because it felt like they had known each other their whole lives. No example could make this clearer than the fact that their first date lasted nearly seven hours! As Nate completed graduate school and Caroline continued to move up in her career, the two became inseparable, and their relationship only grew from there. Fast forward to three and a half years later, the two got engaged in March of 2025 at the cherry blossom festival in the city where they first met. Over the past four and a half years, they’ve built a life together in D.C., including adding a third member to their family with their yellow lab, Lily. They cannot wait to have the people they love most here in Washington to celebrate their special day.