Kyle and Julia met as randomly assigned chemistry lab partners at UNC - Chapel Hill in September of 2016. After their first lab session, Julia rushed home to tell her roommates about her cute lab partner and how she was determined to ask him on a date by the end of the semester.

After a semester of shattered test tubes, Kyle's many stories about Salem, and an early text from Julia about her malaria diagnosis (their first ever text messages), she finally built up the courage to ask him to a party.

On their first date, Julia attended Kyle's Harmonyx A Cappella concert before joining her friends at Back Bar for a cocktail party. The next thing they knew, it was 2 o'clock in the morning and they were still chatting on the couch in the Phi Mu common room. The next weekend, they found each other at a UNC football game, and from that point on the pair were inseparable.

Six years, five jobs, and four cities later, Kyle asked Julia to marry him on a perfect October evening in their beloved neighborhood, Boston's South End. After a stunned "What is happening," Julia said "Yes!" Surrounded by friends and loved ones, Kyle and Julia celebrated their engagement with their favorite way to spend an evening - a delicious meal.