Despite attending Barnard and Columbia at the same time and sharing a group of mutual friends, Jessie and Julian didn t speak until three years after college. I tried to talk to Jessie at a friend s party in Brooklyn, but she was dating someone else at the time and basically ignored me, says Julian. A couple months later, Jessie was single and we ran into each other at a pre-Thanksgiving party at a friend s apartment and spent the whole night talking.
After seven years of dating, Julian proposed on a weekend trip in upstate New York with his grandmother s diamond reset into a new band by Jade Trau and a meticulously doctored version of one of Jessie s favorite books. Throughout our relationship, we had spent many weekend mornings exploring different used bookstores wherever we were Brooklyn, Maine, Cambridge, Montana, says Jessie. On a weekend trip to Hobart, New York, the couple spent several hours browsing vintage volumes before Julian called Jessie s attention to a 1970s e