Vero & Matt

To tell our story properly we need to provide quite a bit of detail so if you don’t have enough time (or interest) in reading the whole thing, here’s a brief summary: Matt is Australian, Vero is Mexican, we met in 2014 in Monterrey, Mexico, but reconnected in 2022 on Instagram and began our love in Costa Rica to later move in together in Mexico City. For the rest of you, here’s the whole tale:

 

Our love story officially starts in April 2022, however, we met long before that. 

 

Vero, from Mazatlán, Mexico, was doing her bachelor’s studies in Monterrey, Mexico when Matt, from Canberra, Australia, decided to do his international exchange in that same place in 2014. Vero was a part of ISE, a group that our friends (Luis, Rodri, Sebas and Juan) founded to improve the experience of international students in Mexico with cool parties and trips. When Matt arrived in Monterrey in 2014, Vero was exhausted from all the partying so was slowly retiring from the ISE world but Matt was received by our mutual friends and eventually joined the team. Because Vero was no longer as involved with the group, we didn’t get to hang out too much despite meeting a few times (we don’t really remember when we first met) and definitely knew who the other one was.

 

Fast forward to October 2021, our friend Luis got married to his lovely wife Simone and they invited us both to their wedding in San Miguel, Mexico. We both saw each other and even though we were never really friends, we said hello and did a quick catch up about our lives. At that time, Matt had recently moved to Paris, France, and Vero was living in Mexico City and was in a relationship, so nothing really happened there (fun fact: we were sitting at the same table). 

 

In April 2022, on his birthday, Luis reposted a happy birthday story from Matt, and Vero realised that we were not Insta buddies so she decided to add Matt on Instagram (with no ulterior motives since they both lived in different continents). A week after that, Vero posted something about the band Parcels, Matt responded to her story and we started talking for 2 hours straight about everything. We had both recently ended some long term relationships and were talking about how we were looking for something that aligned more with our values. 

 

In that first conversation, Matt told Vero that he was rethinking his next move and that he would do a “Eat, Pray, Love” kind of trip to Costa Rica for 3 weeks to clear his mind. He mentioned that he didn’t have any plans for the last week and thought that Vero could use a trip like that based on what they had talked about, so he decided to invite her to join. For those who know Vero, you would think “she would never say yes to something so spontaneous” but the moment Matt invited her she thought, “why not? This might actually be fun and it’s not too far away to come back to Mexico if we don’t get along”, so after a couple of days, Vero accepted the invitation and we started to plan our trip. 

 

Without any clarity or expectations, we both ventured to Costa Rica in June 2022. Will this be a friendly trip or will we have romantic chemistry? Who knows. But the moment we met in Costa Rica, everything made sense. We instantly clicked and everything went over so smoothly that by the end of the week we decided to give it a shot (not even knowing how we would do it) and be in a relationship. Vero visited Matt one month later in Paris and after a great week together, Matt decided to quit his job and join Vero in Mexico City to be together. In October 2022, Matt officially moved to Mexico City and the rest is history. We got engaged in the most surreal place (Monument Valley, Arizona-Utah) on 30 May 2023 and had our civil union on 24 June 2023. 

 

We are both very excited for what’s to come and to share our story and our love with you all. We hope you can join us to celebrate together on 23 November 2024 in Mazatlán, Mexico.