Grace and Simon met via chance encounter one fated night on December 19th, 2019. Their mutual friend Maddie Haden was celebrating her 21st birthday party in one of the student apartments at Emory's Clairmont Campus, where Simon worked up the courage to tell Grace he thought she was beautiful and ask for her number. A month later, they went on their first date, where they got breakfast, folded laundry, and went on a walk through the beautiful Hahn woods and Lullwater preserve (almost 8 hours worth of time together!)

They continued to go on dates for the next couple of months, including on Valentine's day. On March 15th of 2020, Emory announced that spring break would be extended to an additional week because of the impending pandemic. Simon invited Grace to go Englewood, FL and drive for 8 hours in the car with himself and his mom Julie, the first time Grace ever met her! On this trip, Simon asked Grace if she would be his girlfriend.

One global pandemic, multiple cross country road trips (Grace says that after their 2 week trip out west car camping was when she knew their love would last), a handful of international excursions and 5 and half years later, they are finally engaged and incredibly excited to celebrate their love with you.