Our Story

Luke and Blake met their freshman year of college at Colgate University. It all started during orientation week at the first new student introduction in the Chapel where a mutual friend briefly introduced them to each other. Blake thought Luke was so cute, texted her mom that she had met the cutest boy, but wasn’t quite sure how much she’d see him after that.

Little did she know that Luke had felt the same, and told his friend that he wanted to get to know Blake better. They devised a plan to make another introduction in the dining hall and to extend an invitation to join forces for upcoming orientation parties and events. The plan worked and Luke was able to woo Blake by being the gentleman that he is, tying her shoes and carrying her backpack up and down the hill.

They were soon spending every day together. As crazy as it sounds, they both knew pretty instantly that they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.

One night freshman year, while walking back up the hill to their dorm, Luke asked Blake to kiss her on Willow Path. Colgate Legend has it that if you kiss someone on Willow Path, you'll marry them.

At the end of Freshman year, Luke secretly wrote "Blake, will you marry me?" dated 5/14/17 on the top of her freshman year dorm. Luke knew that one day he would take Blake back to the dorm and ask her to marry him.

They lived together throughout the rest of college, supporting each other to raise their GPAs and excel in their athletics. Blake was on the D1 Colgate Softball team and Luke was on the Colgate Rowing team as well as the USA National Rowing Team throughout college. Blake would always be there to support Luke in China, Japan, France, and around the US for Lukes USA races. They graduated Colgate University together in 2020.

After graduating, Luke and Blake lived in Ireland for a year and both attended Trinity College Dublin for Masters Degrees. While abroad they traveled all around the world (see pictures below for a look at all of the places they’ve been together), all the while, undenounced to Blake, Luke already had a custom antique diamond ring waiting in NYC for pick up!

It was an amazing year, but Luke couldn’t think of a better place to ask Blake to marry him than by taking her back to show her what he had written on top of the door all the way back in 2017. And that he did. After traveling the world, Luke took Blake back to Colgate University and proposed to her in their freshman year dorm that he had decorated with flowers, string lights, and pictures of them.

Luke and Blake hope you can join them on their next journey, exchanging their vows and dancing the night away in one of their favorite places, The Breakers Palm Beach.