How We Met

One of the first pictures of Vinnie and I during Freshman year. 

Since the blog will encompass pretty much everything being an adult entails, including relationships and how they change as you age, we thought we would share the story of how we met!

Vinnie and I met the first day of freshman year at school. There was a "Welcome Freshman" barbecue held in front of one of the dorms the day after all the freshman moved in. I was swinging my lanyard on my hand because that's what all the cool kids do (ha!) when to my humiliation the lanyard flew off and hit Vinnie square on the upper thigh. I just wanted to sink into the ground or quickly run away but since my lanyard had my id and key in it, I would not have gotten very far. It turned out to be quite the ice breaker and we quickly started a conversation and found out we had already made some mutual friends our first day there.

Night at the casino during senior week.

Fast forward a couple of days and we were seated in the back of an overcrowded jeep on our way to Josh's, a college employee's house, for some home cooked food. While savoring our banana French toast, which was delicious, and listening to Josh's stories about his time spent at the college, he suddenly looked at Vinnie and I and predicted that we would get married. Vinnie and I cracked up because a) we just met each other and b) we were both in long-distance relationships at the time.


Freshman year progressed and Vinnie and I became very good friends. I found someone who I could trust and have a genuine friendship with. Every Sunday we would get together so I could do his laundry (which hasn't stopped!) and go on pretzel "dates" to the mall where we could talk and unwind away from school. We stayed best friends and our relationship didn't become romantic until senior year of school. As soon as we decided to take our friendship to the next level, we were inseparable. When we told our friends about the shift in our relationship, no one was surprised. They all claimed to have known it was going to happen for years, we were just late to our own party!

Our first trip to a Yankee game together.

How did you meet your significant other?!