As we look forward to the next chapter of our lives, we also look back at how we got here.   So, as they say, previously on …

Sarah and I met at a rehearsal for our high school musical 23 years ago.  It was a classic tale- I was a stagehand and she was a chorus girl*.  Few will be surprised to hear that it was Sarah who started that first conversation.

We dated for two years, staying together even as I graduated high school and went off to college.  We broke up eventually, but it is fair to say that we left an impression on each other’s lives.  We didn’t see each other for nearly 20 years, but we thought about each other from time to time.  Every 4 or 5 years one of us would email the other to find out how they were doing, and once I joined Facebook we quickly ‘friended’ each other and began to pay attention to the goings-on in each other’s lives**, occasionally sharing a story or posting a comment.

During one of those exchanges, Sarah made an offhand comment that we should get together some day when we were both home visiting family.  With that comment in mind, I messaged Sarah over the holidays a mere two or three years later to say hello.  She replied back and again suggested that we should meet up someday.  I suggested Thursday***.

We met for drinks at Blue, the only bar in Hampton we could find that might be open. It also happened to be the only bar that was having a Mardi Gras live band night, complete with horns and a tuba.   It was amazing how quickly we recognized each other and how easily we could talk to each other right away.  Many years had passed and we had both matured, but so much was unchanged.

After that we emailed and messaged each other somewhat regularly.  I even texted Sarah—this was back when I was paying 25 cents per text, so I should have realized then that it was quite serious.  I began to think about traveling from Boston to LA to visit her, when one day Sarah said that she might travel to Boston on work.  I was secretly thrilled.

After that, I visited her a couple of times, she visited me a couple of times, and though we lived 3000 miles apart we began dating.  It was illogical and impossible, but somehow we arrived at this point where I have moved to LA and soon we will be married****.

Our wedding will be a bit unconventional, just like the journey we took to get here.  It will also be a celebration and we look forward to sharing it with you.

– Scott

All dressed up

Engaged!

On set of The Big Bang Theory

A night out in Dallas

Christmas 2013

A ghost and two werewolves

Maine

On the road to Galway, Ireland

Editors notes

*Sarah would like to point out that she was in fact playing a parent who got to sing their own songs, and was not just a plain old chorus girl
**Sarah says that the term for what Scott was doing is “Facebook Stalking” since he knew a hell of a lot more about what she was doing than she did about him
***Sarah would like to point out that the term is “entrapment” since she later found out that Scott was too shy to ask her to get together but knew that if he set the situation up a certain way, Sarah would naturally suggest getting together thus saving him the trouble
***Sarah says it makes perfect sense to her and she couldn’t be happier it happened