In September of 2019, Jess went to Riverhead Ciderhouse to celebrate her brother’s 26th birthday. Little did she know, Nick’s then girlfriend (now wife), Rachel, and her childhood best friend, Jamianne, had schemed a plan. They wondered if Jamianne invited her brother, David, to the event, if a spark would form between the two. David and Jess attended Ronkonkoma Middle School and Connetquot High School together in the same grade, but their social circles, were very different, an athlete and a theater nerd. And unlike one of the bride's favorite musicals of all time, they did not sing together on stage for the call-back audition the same night of the decathalon, then shortly after win the championship game, kick-starting their love story. No, their paths never crossed, until almost 5 years after high school. At Riverhead Ciderhouse, they finally (formally) met and connected instantly, chatting the whole time. After the event, their was a post-hang and the guys and girls started to split up, when Jess attempted to join the girls, they told her she HAD to go with the boys to get ice cream. Jess was confused but excited to spend more time talking to David. Jess and David were really hitting it off, but the party was winding down. Jess knew, with David being a little on the shy side, she was going to have to muster up the courage to offer exchanging numbers. She pushed down her nerves, and went home with her heart fluttering and a new contact in her phone. Jessie’s cousin, Teresa, said “When I saw you two talking, it was like you were in your own world” and that she had a great feeling about this. Jess giddily thought “So do I.” David and Jess could have never imagined that their fun first meet, was a carefully curated secret mission, set by their matchmaking sister and future sister-in-law, that would eventually evolve into love. Nor could they have ever known, walking the middle school halls, that a domino effect of events had been set into motion. And this invisible string of events would tie their fates together, culminating in the promise of forever.