Microsoft Can Bring Us Together

I met my now husband at the Ignite 2015 Conference in Chicago. We shared a table at lunch with some other SharePoint junkies. He was married to someone else at the time, so he went straight to the Friends Zone. We stayed in touch over social media, asking each other for advice and tips on our respective SharePoint journies.

Flashforward to 2017, Tom announced in June that he was getting a divorce. In October of the same year we held a SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities event. He was a speaker from Portland, OR. I was one of the organizers from the Twin Cities. I offered to let him stay in the guest room for the event. We spent all of our waking time together.

He then flew out for a visit for Thanksgiving and met the family.

Again for Christmas.

I flew to Portland, OR, for Valentine’s Day.

By the end of May 2018, we were moving in together. Now we talk SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive all the time.

We decided to get married in May of 2021, but were thwarted by COVID-19. Pushed the wedding out a year to May 22, 2022.

It was worth the wait.

Thank you Microsoft to bringing two SharePoint junkies together in technology and in love.

Update: We are now 3.5 years into this wild ride called marriage and still loving every minute of it.