A dating app brought us together in April of 2017: two swipes right, one Sunday lunch, and a long walk. Just three dates later—we were a couple, with Kristen’s two white poodles along for the ride. At the time, Kristen was in graduate school and Josh traveled abroad for work with his architectural and design firm. We made memories at concerts, on mountain hikes across Colorado, by the pool, in yoga class, and in our tiny apartments about an hour’s drive from one-another.

In the years that followed, Kristen led care coordination as a nursing director at a children’s hospital in Denver, and Josh continued his work as a senior designer with his firm. We married 2.5 years later in a simple, intimate ceremony at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, reading the vows we wrote to one another. Derek—Kristen’s brother—and her dad were our witnesses, with Derek capturing all the photos of the day. Truly magical.

What Kristen loves about Josh: “he is ‘our everyday hero’ who is stable, creative, a ‘man of his word’, safety conscious, grounded, dependable, faithful, and prioritizes his wife and children above all else”

What Josh loves about Kristen: “prioritizes our children above all else, is steadfast in her devotion to our marriage and family, and is the memory-maker of the family making every celebration special”