Lauren&Christian

Lauren came east on instinct. After years of Colorado — mountains, miles, the kind of adventures that quietly change a person — she found her way back to family in New England, a desk at a firm in the city, and the slow, sweet work of remembering where she was from. Not far down the road, a man named Christian was living the bachelor life — raising his puppy Mischa, working on his master's, and making a living melting metal with lasers. One ordinary night, she swiped on him, intrigued by his adorable smile and amused by his profile factoid: “did you know you should have at least three hens so they don't get lonely?” Christian thought Lauren was a cutie too, drawn to her love for her dog and her many passions. Their first date stretched more than three hours and felt like ten minutes. He brought treats for her to take home to her dog Mitzi; she drove home smitten — and never quite stopped.

What grew between them was the best kind of love: the unforgettable kind that builds through lively weekends and quiet Tuesdays, through her meeting his family and he hers, through the morning they signed the papers on a green colonial with a lavender front door and called it home. They've been building their life together ever since — and there's nothing they would love more than for you to join them on this next step in October, the day they tie the knot.

— Lauren & Christian