Here are the stories of a couple of couples falling in love and sharing their traditions.
The Pomponios met in 2005 on the second floor Stauffer Hall and connected over their shared fandom of the Los Angeles Chargers. Anthony, a kinesiology major, was on the football team while Charlotte was an English major who spent time outside of class on the cheer team, as a member of the Athenian Society, as a writer for the Quaker Campus, and more.
Anthony proposed to Charlotte on the Whittier campus in January 2018, next to their shared brick on the Founders Walkway, and married in 2019. Now living in Palm Desert with their sons Rocco and Maverick, they plan on opening a weightlifting gym for youth.
Watching the Chargers is still a favorite pastime of the couple, and in the past year, the Pomponios have become season ticket holders.
“Passing on this tradition with our two sons and watching them become fans of the Chargers has been so fun and fills our hearts with pride,” said Charlotte. “We can’t wait to also bring our sons to a Whittier football game!”
Ho and Livits are the duo behind the Blogilates fitness brand. They met during their third and fourth years as students, with Livits tutoring Ho in finance. After he proposed to her in Kauai in 2017, the two married in 2018.
“It's not who you can live with, but it's who you can't live without,” Ho said of knowing that Livits was “the one.”
The couple will take at least one major vacation year — called a “mini-moon” — that allows them to reconnect.
“Being able to take time away and just focus on things that aren't the business is so necessary to ensure that our relationship keeps being deep,” Ho said.
The Johnsons met in chemistry class, bonding over a group assignment and deciding to see a movie with friends after working on the project.
“No one else showed up,” Mathew said. “Partway through the movie, Amanda asked if it was a date and the rest is history.”
The couple moved to Wisconsin in 2017 and both work in the pharmaceutical industry. They married in 2018 in Los Angeles so that friends and professors from Whittier could attend. Every year, they celebrate their anniversary by visiting one of Wisconsin’s iconic supper clubs.
“We sometimes cheat and find other times to visit during the year, so our total visited is higher than six,” Mathew said. “They’ve all been delicious!”
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