Although we graduated from the same law school a year apart, we didn’t meet until February 2009, when were both working at the same firm in New York.

Katy: I had just transferred to the firm’s New York office and didn’t have any work friends, so I got in the habit of suggesting happy hours to everyone I met – they'd bring their people, I’d bring my people, socializing would occur. (Of course, the truth was that I didn’t know anyone yet, so when the time came my "people” were always "busy" filing "briefs", etc.) My plan paid off when Matt showed up at one of those early happy hours and got the seriously misguided impression that I had a lot of friends.

Matt: A friend of mine from work invited me to a happy hour with a bunch of other junior litigators at the White Horse Tavern near work. Now I knew that the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village had been the place to be in the 1950’s, but I don’t think the downtown location ever had a time when it wasn’t a little divey. So it's nice that Katy keeps it classy. As more and more people left the bar, Katy and I just kept talking. I remember being mesmerized by her travel stories from South America.

After several more months of happy hours, cocktail parties, and always sharing cabs because we were the only people living in the utterly convenient, but also utterly cliche neighborhood of Murray Hill, we finally started dating.