“If a fairy told us back in high school, ‘You two are going to get married ,’ we probably would have been really shocked,” says art advisor Nikeyu Callaway . She first became close friends with James Augustine while they attended boarding school together in upstate New York, but she had another high school sweetheart. “So, James was never a romantic consideration,” she says. They reconnected years later after Covid and bonded over their shared love of balancing life between the city and the country, as well as their families’ artistic backgrounds. “It was really funny to just dive into a different type of relationship with him, but it worked so well,” says Nikeyu.

Nikeyu had a good idea that James, who works in real estate, was planning to propose one day when they took their dogs M

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