they're actually pretty flexible so i'm down to move things around if you'd need or want, but essentially they dated in 2013 and a few months into it while still in their honeymoon phase decided they were going to tie the knot. because things are going to feel this great forever, right!! and they lived in that bliss bubble a few months longer, until the reality of forever and that they'd really only known each other less than a year sunk in and things pretty quickly (but quietly) crumbled. no big dramas, just... quietly realizing they'd rushed things, but the spark wasn't as strong once they realized that and forced themselves to slow down. and now it's just a thing they awkwardly joke about, you know, "that time we almost got married."