In August 2018, ventured on her first-ever Bumble date with LGBTQ+ mentor and documentary executive producer at the bar Lovers of Today in the East Village of NYC. “We spent the first night we ever met drinking cocktails in the corner booth singing oldies together,” says J. Three-and-a-half years later, J planned a proposal that would lead them back to that pivotal spot in their romantic history.
“I told Maddie that we were meeting friends downtown to carpool to a museum event together to Connecticut. But when we were walking by Tompkins Square Park to meet everyone, I said I wanted to quickly pop in,” they share. “We walked into the bar to ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ by The Beach Boys and there was a Lite Bright—something Maddie always wanted as a kid—that said ‘Marry Me?’ on the bar counter.
I even looked up the menu ahead of time and asked the bartender to have the cocktails we drank that first night there waiting for us. I was such a nervous wreck that I left my glasses in the Uber we took there!” Even though there was already a proposal, Maddie wanted J to experience that incredible surprise, too. She organized a huge group of their friends to attend a Yankees game together and had the words “J, let’s cheer on the Yankees together forever, marry me?” displayed on the Jumbotron.
J shares, “I kept saying, ‘I can’t believe we got 20 of our friends to come to a Thursday night baseball game!’ Little did I know...
If I had, I would have worn s.
