The short version: Carnegie Mellon, a lot of shared meals, and two people who — against the odds of graduate school — actually showed up to class.
Caitlin and Paul met in graduate school, where they started out as friends and quickly discovered they had a few important things in common: a love of food, a love of travel, and an unusually strong commitment to actually attending class.
In a program where "I'll just watch the recording later" was a lifestyle for most people, showing up consistently turned out to be a surprisingly good filter for finding your person.
Somewhere between group projects, late dinners, and trips together, friendship turned into something more. Neither of them can point to the exact moment — only that it stopped making sense to plan a trip, or a meal, or much of anything, without the other one.
What started as "let's split a plate of tacos to compare notes" became a shared list of restaurants, then a shared apartment, then a shared life.
Trip planning in this relationship starts with a restaurant list, not a hotel.
Which is, conveniently, how they ended up planning a wedding a couple thousand miles from home.
To class, to each other, and — soon — to Mexico City, with all of you.
Eventually, they decided that spending the rest of their lives together sounded like a pretty good idea — the kind of decision that felt obvious once they finally said it out loud.
Now they're heading to Mexico City to celebrate with the people they love most: two cities' worth of friends and family, one very good excuse for a trip, and a wedding at Casa Xipe to make it official.
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