Our story begins freshman year at Homewood Flossmoor High School. Our great friendship blossomed sophomore year chemistry class, bonding over our mutual inability to understand the bonding of chemicals. While we didn't excel at chemistry, we were A+ at picking the best chicken wings at Lassens! (Which are their teriyaki wings btw)
Usual story; boy meets girl, boy and girl graduate high school and go their separate ways. Lauren went off to U of A while Dillon served our country as a Marine. Our paths crossed for one weekend in 2012 when we got together with a group of friends in AZ. We didn't think much of it at the time, but looking back, we can confirm that all good love stories start as a friendship.
Years later, our paths crossed once again back where it all started, in good ol' HoFlo at Lassens.
Both now living back in Chicago, we couldn't deny that the wings were not the only spicy thing between us, and that this was meant to be more than just a friendship. You'd think this was the beginning of us…. but nope, not quite yet.
Two years later in 2020 during the height of Covid and Tiger King, we finally realized that if we had to be quarantined with anyone, we wanted to do it with each other.
FINALLY, the real love story begins. We were almost a year into our relationship when I spontaneously asked Dillon if he would ever consider moving to Arizona; in which he responded with, "wherever you are, I am." & boom, we were off to AZ and onto the next chapter of our relationship and lives together.
We can't wait for all of our closest family and friends to visit us in our new home state and to celebrate this next chapter of our love story together!