Our Journey to the Aisle

We met at UT Austin: same major, same classes, and before long, the same calendar. Joshua first asked Kiara for help in a coding class, then started “sitting-in” on her accounting lectures. By junior year, we were giving campus tours together; by senior year, we were inseparable.

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Dallas became home base, fueled by queso, jalapeno margaritas, and Katy Trail walks before grad school took us to opposite coasts. We bridged the distance with adventure, hopping between Japan, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Paris, Toronto, Ghana, Palo Alto, and Philadelphia.

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And then came Venice. On day one of a Mediterranean cruise, on a tiny island in the lagoon, Joshua proposed — and Kiara said yes.