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CloseJacob & Gideon
August 31, 2025
Detroit, MI
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AUGUST 31, 2025

Detroit, MI
249 days249 d6 hours6 h43 minutes43 min38 seconds38 s



HOW WE MET

An Ad for Hinge

Jacob was living in Hyde Park after graduating from college and Gideon had just
moved to Forest Park to start medical school at Loyola. Practically speaking,
they were in a long-distance relationship by Chicago standards. They matched on
Hinge (sponsor our wedding, please) in early December 2018 but both went home
for the holidays before they could schedule a date. Gideon asked Jacob if he
wanted to text in the meantime and Jacob said no because he was trying to unplug
over the break, and then proceeded to message every day on the app until their
first date on January 2, 2019. They tried going to a drag bar, which was closed,
and went to the brewery next door (and both establishments closed during COVID
womp womp). They discussed their shared childhood experience of getting in
trouble for talking in elementary school but not having friends in their class,
their obsession with Brandy Cinderella and going to musicals with their
grandmothers, and Gideon guessed Jacob’s middle name on the first try. Multiple
Chicago Snowmageddons later, Jacob quarantining with the Levinsons for 4 months,
one MD, one Master’s in Urban Planning, half an anesthesiology residency, four
apartments, multiple non-profits, and moving across the country to Denver it was
clear we had found our besheret, our destiny.


THE PROPOSAL

TLDR: Gideon suprised Jacob

On April 22, 2023, in their shared Google Calendar, Gideon had put a trip to
Chicago’s Adler Planetarium (he told Jacob got free tickets from work; total
lie) followed by seeing the Alanis Morisette jukebox musical 'Jagged Little
Pill' with their friends Leah and Jacob (Straight-cub to avoid confusion). Jacob
met Gideon at the planetarium and they watched shows until it closed. After
that, Gideon forced Jacob to walk around the beach along Lake Michigan while it
started to get colder and colder until it eventually was snowing sideways. After
an hour of complaining about the weather and begging to leave, Jacob said to
Gideon, “You are not considering my basic physical needs, which makes you - by
definition - inconsiderate.” Gideon ignored him and insisted they walk to a rock
with a panoramic view of the lake and skyline. He then launched into a speech,
starting with a note he had written to himself a month and a half after their
first date about how he had fallen in love and Gideon discussed the importance
of the day’s Gematria and its holiness. Jacob realized mid-speech that Gideon
was proposing, and to avoid blacking out, he yelled multiple times, “I’M
BLACKING OUT!”, which did not work at all. The last thing he remembered Gideon
saying was, “You’re the best and I’m the best, and we both deserve the best, so
I think we should get married.” Gideon then got down on one knee, gave Jacob a
ring with his fingerprint engraved inside, then handed Jacob a ring with Jacob’s
fingerprint inside, and Jacob proposed to Gideon with it. Not that you asked,
but Gideon took Jacob's prints from a wine glass using an at-home fingerprint
kit. Gideon called them an Uber, and while inside, he told Jacob of his
elaborate plan to propose in December, but people’s calendars weren’t lining up
and the rings came early so he thought, why not propose? (Total lie.) He said
that he’d gotten them an Airbnb with a private chef to cook them a gluten-free
meal, after which they could call their parents and tell them the news (another
lie). They pulled up to the apartment building and took the elevator to the
rooftop, and Jacob heard jazz music coming from inside the amenity room. They
opened the door to 60 of their best friends and family, having traveled in from
across the city, both coasts, and multiple states in between, and they had a
surprise engagement party catered by Jacob’s favorite, Chipotle. There were
drinks named after their grandmothers, photo slideshows, performances, a Zoom
connection and it was perfect. Jacob was so surprised that he hit Gideon
multiple times in front of everyone. You can see him hit Gideon for yourself in
the video above. We cannot wait to continue the celebrations all Labor Day
Weekend long in Detroit!!



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