We're Matt and Beau. We met in the spring of 2013 while we were both in college, and quickly found ourselves obsessing over each other in every cute and annoying way possible. We bonded over normal things like our shared love of Jameson and ginger ale, and karaoke bars, and both of us being from New Orleans and the complicated love / hate relationship with the city that can only really be felt for a hometown.
We started dating pretty much immediately and within two months we were on our way to live in Southeast Asia together for an entire summer to teach English to business professionals, which was an odd choice but pretty amazing. We managed to fit a few years’ worth of fights and makeups and *special moments* all into that one summer. There were many nights of going out to dinner with our students and drinking beer in alleys in Ho Chi Minh City, kind of dangerous motorbike rides through insanely congested highways, the most beautiful natural sights we've ever seen in north Vietnam and in Thailand, and being awestruck at Siem Reap. There were also 2 a.m. fights fueled by sleeping in 90 degree heat and not understanding each other's quirks or needs yet and the fear of living in a foreign country with someone you just met. It was a lot. We came back to the states and continued on our lives together, living in a not cute college apartment and focusing on things like paying rent and finishing term papers and working in restaurants until very very late at night.