It started in the most unexpected way—not with a love story, but with a family conversation. We were getting married because, somewhere along the way, two strangers had become friends, two friends had become partners, and two people who once knew nothing about each other had decided that they wanted to build their future together. Years later, whenever someone asked how they fell in love, they would laugh. “Our families arranged the meeting,” we would say. “But we arranged the love ourselves.