Our Story
Like many modern love stories, ours started with a swipe. In 2017, Bumble did what friends, fate, and Friday nights had apparently failed to do — it introduced Brandy and David. A first date at Smash Palace confirmed what the app had already suspected: these two were going to be a problem for each other (the good kind).
What followed was eight years of building something real, including two years when David decided that South Georgia was a reasonable place to be. (Spoiler: it is not close. We checked.) To make things extra interesting, this also happened to coincide with a global pandemic, which meant the world was locked down and normal was thoroughly off the table. Distance plus COVID has a way of either ending things or cementing them. For Brandy and David, it did the latter.
On their eight-year anniversary, David surprised Brandy with a helicopter tour over Mt Fyffe. For two people who feel most at home in the mountains, touching down at the summit felt just right. Up there, with the Kaikōura ranges stretching out in every direction, he finally asked the question that had been eight years in the making. She said yes. Obviously.