How We Met
It started in 2023 with a question: “What’s your favorite rock?” Rachel’s answer — the Hope Diamond at Natural History, naturally. We discovered a shared love of curiosity, critters, and museums, and spent our early dates exploring everything D.C. had to offer. Before long, we traded the city for the shore and took our first trip together to Chincoteague Island to see the wild ponies — at a hotel that promised “Ponies on site.”
The Journey
Share the adventures, milestones, and moments that defined your relationship. The trips you took, the challenges you overcame, and the memories you built together along the way.
The Proposal
It was clear we had found something worth keeping. We planned a trip to Oregon to visit Schreiner’s Iris Gardens for their 100th anniversary — and early one morning, surrounded by rows of irises in bloom, Daniel proposed.