JOHN + BRUCE
We're Engaged!
So...how did we meet?
We met on a popular gay social networking app and started text messaging for a few weeks in the Seattle Winter. Bruce at this time was wrapping up his Boeing/Teague internship in Seattle while John was taking a Spanish class at Seattle Central Community College while working at Amazon. One evening, John’s Spanish class got cancelled so he asked Bruce if they wanted to meet for Coffee. We met for coffee at what would turn out to be our favorite coffee shop in Seattle: Solstice Coffee on Capitol Hill. After John convinced Bruce to try a beer sampler with him at the coffee shop (note that Bruce was playing along because he doesn’t really drink beer) we talked about the respective places we grew up: Seattle and SoCal. We closed our date with a kiss in the rain at the corner of Broadway & Thomas on Capitol Hill under the neon lights of the Bank of America sign.
What happened next?
After a few months of dating in Seattle, it was time for Bruce to move back to SoCal to graduate from Art Center not without promising to return for John. We drove an epic drive down to SoCal with Bruce’s friends Anita and Lyndsey to help him move back home. About 6 months later, Bruce flew back up to Seattle to fulfill his promise and we lived together in the Central District of Seattle with our Frenchy, Marshmallow, and worked together at the Starbucks Headquarters. Our days were full of coffee dates, lunches, and of course some great work.
Where are we now?
At the end of May 2019, we said goodbye to our friends and family in the PNW and drove down with Marshmallow to West Covina, California. We spent 10 months of the California dream eating cake at the beach, visiting Disneyland, road trips, and frequenting DTLA’s Flower Market with friends. When the pandemic and lockdowns hit us in March of 2020, we started spending our days watching a lot of online content and news centered around POC representation in Media and Black Lives Matter content. We even got involved in some of the excitement of the 2020 elections and voted in November. Also in November, John decided to pop the question while we were in the PNW for Thanksgiving. We took a road trip into the Olympic Peninsula and spent the day at Lake Crescent taking photos and celebrating our engagement.
What’s in the future?
Silly! We can’t tell the future but we hope that we will be able celebrate our wedding with you somehow whether in person or virtually. We decided that since we met and got engaged in the PNW we would get married in SoCal. We are especially excited to hold the event in Bruce’s family house in West Covina so that we can make some wonderful lasting memories with everyone here.
