We met back in February of 1996 when we worked for the same small consulting firm in Piscataway, New Jersey. For the first several months, we were on opposite shifts, so we never really had a chance to talk. Gabe would see Pam on her lunch break in the breakroom reading her Barbie magazines and thought she was a little kooky. And Gabe still had the fresh-out-of-college "Fraternity Boy" attitude. We were both dating other people at the time anyway but weren't really happy. Eventually, our shifts changed and we started going to lunch together. Then in June of 1996, we finally went out together. One of our first dates was watching the fireworks in Maplewood, New Jersey on the fourth of July. It was hard at first because we didn't want our supervisors at work to know we were dating, but when we took vacation together in September of 1996, it was hard to keep it a secret. Our cover was finally blown when we went as each others' dates to the Holiday Party that December.

A little more than two years later, Gabe proposed. Our wedding took place almost 4 years to the day from our first date. Gabe popped the question and we officially got engaged on Friday, January 15, 1999. We went to dinner at Café Cucina, and Gabe had a special dessert menu made up with a beautiful poem that ended with the question: "Will you marry me?" It took a minute for Pam to realize what was going on, and she commented how strange it was that they would have written that on a menu in a restaurant. Pam looked at Gabe, and he smiled at her and held a small white jewelry box in his hand. That's when Pam knew it was for real. He opened the box to reveal a beautiful ring. There was even a tiny light inside the box to showcase the gorgeous diamond.

Then they brought Pam a piece of chocolate cake on a plate with the words "Will you marry me?" written in chocolate, and two glasses of champagne. Pam, of course, said "Yes!"