In the summer of 2023, Christopher William Sater and Traci Ryan Green hosted a combined engagement party and baby shower. “The theme was ‘Engaged and Expecting,’” he said.
It wasn’t a party the two could have ever imagined having when they first matched on the dating app Bumble in March 2017.
“I remember Traci’s profile from her pictures,” Mr. Sater said. “She was sitting in a bar with a beer in front of her, and it looked like it was as big as she was. I thought, ‘She looks like fun.’”
The two began messaging regularly, but because of their work and travel schedules, they didn’t meet in person until about a month later.
“I was going on lots of Bumble dates, and I was tired of spending a lot of money and drinking during the week,” Mr. Sater said. So, he suggested a walk. They met in San Francisco, where they were living, at the Ferry Building. They had so much fun talking that they ended with dinner at Nick’s Lighthouse, a restaurant in the Fisherman’s Wharf area.
“Not the sexiest activity,” Mr. Sater said. “We sat in a dingy, old booth and the waiter could not get it into his head that we were locals. He wanted us to ‘try’ Anchor Steam,” a local beer that the two were all too familiar with.
