From the bride... "We met in the fall of 2013 when Pepe was a third-year graduate student and Hayoung was a first-year graduate student in the same program. Hayoung immediately noticed Pepe as being cute and funny, and Pepe loved that Hayoung was very opinionated and strong. One day during a review session for a class that Pepe and Hayoung were taking together, we ended up sitting next to each other (not by chance) and started passing notes, middle school style, during which Hayoung very unsubtly gave Pepe her number. Pepe knew Hayoung was a keeper from the start. He even “coincidentally” ended up going to the same school trek to Palestine (negotiating heavily with the organizer to get on the final list). In addition, he found a way to always be on the same bus as Hayoung so they could hang out more. The investment seemed to pay dividends…. Hayoung realized she was in love with Pepe during a week-long road trip through California, Arizona, and Nevada, We tried (unsuccessfully) to rap along to 50 Cent, tried shooting guns at a shooting range, discovered that you can spend an entire day playing blackjack with $100 in Las Vegas, and ran over a hundred bunnies driving through Death Valley. Unclear why, but we played a lot of Jessie J’s Dominoes during this trip."