How it all began
We met in September 2017 at Western University, finding ourselves in the same section (shoutout Section 5) at Ivey Business School. Hunter sat in the row behind Mary, who faithfully shared her snacks with him, despite his ongoing complaints about the carrot-to-everything-else ratio. Our differences became apparent early: Hunter had never set foot in Western Canada, and Mary had only ever seen Toronto from downtown. But the similarities outweighed all of it — namely, a mutual love of Twitter, skiing, buffalo chicken fingers, and dogs. With winter approaching, when Hunter discovered Mary had a car, our fate was sealed. We started dating on November 5th, 2017, and haven't looked back since.
Over the next eight and a half years, we lived in Toronto, Calgary, Washington DC, back to Toronto, and back to Calgary again. Hunter finally made it out West, where Mary learned he was nearly as good a skier as he'd always claimed. We loved introducing friends to Western hospitality, both in ski season and, of course, during Stampede. Back in Ontario, the legendary 106 Scarborough Road and many a dinner and late night at 74 Wineva gave us just as many good memories. We travelled coast to coast, from Victoria to PEI, with a special place in our hearts reserved for road trips in our beloved red Ford Escape, Ruby. With so many people we love in London, England we made the most of European summers with Mary always finding a hike to test Hunter on and Hunter successfully converting Mary to Guinness. Somewhere in between, there were Ontario cottages, small West Coast towns, Maritime family reunions, visitors in DC, and ski hills from interior BC to Colorado to Tahoe. Thank you for being a part of our lives, and we can't wait to celebrate our next chapter with all of you.
