Amanda & Christian May 25, 2019 How They Met Amanda and Christian first met in August 2011 at The College of William and Mary in their freshman dorm, Barrett Hall. Christian played football and Amanda played lacrosse, and since the student-athlete community was...
Essence and Manuel July 7, 2018 How They Met Manuel and Essence’s love story starts all the way back in elementary school, where these two Maryland-natives met. They grew up together, going to the same schools all along the way, but it wasn’t until high school that...
Mo and Matt June 9, 2018 The Proposal Matt proposed to Mo at his family's river house on the Rappahannock River. Mo says, "It's our favorite place to be in the summer with family and friends, it's where our friendship turned into a crush and where we made memories as...
Julia and Trey September 29, 2018 How They Met Julia and Trey met through a mutual friend in June 2014. The mutual friend, which Julia had known since kindergarten, invited Trey, who was interning in Richmond over that summer, to go out with them. The two hit it off...
Brittany and Dwight June 10, 2017 How They Met: Brittany and Dwight first met in 2007 while they were both attending Norfolk State University. The two had mutual friends, but only crossed paths a couple of times. It seemed unlikely that the two would connect when...
Melissa and Andrew June 3, 2017 How They Met: Melissa and Andrew met at a bar in Downtown Richmond in December 2014. He asked Melissa to dance, but she initially said no. Melissa explains, “He persisted and came back and asked again. I said we could talk, and the rest...
Allison and Matt September 24, 2016 How they met Allison & Matt met in April 2012 at a BBQ hosted by Matt and his neighbor in their shared backyard. The two saw each other again on one other social gathering among mutual friends, including an RVA Fashion Week...
Heather & Branch June 25, 2016 When Heather first saw Branch at Balliceaux, she didn’t want to leave her group of friends to approach him, so she did the natural thing: wrote it on Craiglist’s Missed Connections page! As fate would have it, Branch answered, and...
Martha & Tim May 7, 2016 How They Met While Martha was a college senior majoring in mass communications at VCU in 2012, she was chosen for a summer communications internship at the Richmond SPCA. Part of her job would be bringing the adoptable animals to the radio...
Johnny & Velvet November 1, 2014 How They Met While Johnny and Velvet were attending separate conferences at the same hotel in Maryland, a mutual friend hosted a reception where the two met. They started dating two months later. How He Asked Johnny asked Velvet...