Hannah & Garrett
📍 Los Angeles, California
Hannah had never been on a dating app. Garrett would be the first stranger she'd ever agreed to meet on the internet. She lived over an hour outside Los Angeles, but worked in the Fashion District of Downtown LA — her location set to the city — and that was how she ended up matching with him, a week before his birthday.
He was easy to talk to from the first message. They set the date for the night before his birthday. The day before, he mentioned he was vegan, and she saw it as a major red flag — she was worried their lifestyles wouldn't fit, and she was ready to cancel.
Before she could, Garrett asked to move the date to his actual birthday — his friends had bailed on him. Hannah couldn't bear the thought of him spending it alone.
She showed up.
They clicked instantly. She felt completely comfortable with him, the conversation effortless. Hannah’s drive home after the date was an hour of silence, replaying every minute their date. She walked through her front door and told her mom she'd just met the man she was going to marry.
She deleted Hinge the next day.
They made plans to see each other again as soon as Garrett got back from helping a friend move to Las Vegas, and they've been together ever since. Three years and ten months later, they've grown alongside each other in ways she never could have imagined. She found her life partner that night — and she still thinks about that drive home, about the quiet certainty that she'd already chosen.
On May 3, 2026, in a church in Silver Lake, surrounded by friends and family, she chose him again — this time, forever.
