Our love.
Our Story
We met the old fashion way, on a dating app in December of 2016. Our first date was a Monday after work (Rachelle brought her backpack) at Pacific Cocktail Haven, followed by ice skating in Union Square, downtown San Francisco.
Four days later, Rachelle tagged along on a ski trip with Nic's friends. With hours to spare in the car, we discussed how many kids we'd have (though we have both changed our mind since) and our life goals. We knocked out the first few years of dating, all in the first week!
In 2017, we did a lot of skiing together and in 2018, Rachelle took Nic on his first international trip. In 2019, Rachelle experienced some of her first Florida Gator football games. In 2020, we did a lot of hiking, skiing, camping and paddle boarding in Central Oregon. In 2021, we welcomed Archie Briggs to our home in San Francisco. He actually shares the same birthday as Rachelle!
July 4th, 2021, she said Yes!
We had a bucket list of adventures in Oregon to check off including hiking Crater Lake, visiting the Painted Hills, exploring the Oregon Coast, and becoming locals at Mt. Bachelor. The last item on our list was to hike up Broken Top - a collapsed volcano. 3,000 vertical feet later, along a very narrow ridge, Nic proposed. Winded, hungry and slightly terrified of the heights and loose skree; we were engaged!
