Issues ramped up after commencement when the couple moved to Boston in the summertime of 2020 so Ms. Liu may start legislation faculty at Harvard. When she wasn’t learning, she and Mr. Solar spent the primary years of the pandemic bonding of their studio condo. They handed the time consuming ice cream, a shared favourite dessert, and watching journey YouTubers “speaking in regards to the adventures we additionally needed to go on collectively,” Mr. Solar mentioned.
Over the subsequent few years, the lifelong journey followers made good on their dream, finishing adventures throughout six continents, together with the “bucket checklist expertise,” as Mr. Solar put it, of mountaineering the Inca Path to Machu Picchu in 2022. A 12 months later, on a visit to Portugal to have a good time his birthday and Ms. Liu’s last semester of legislation faculty, Mr. Solar proposed.
Mr. Solar, who grew up in Austin, has a bachelor’s diploma in arithmetic and in enterprise administration in enterprise honors and quantitative finance from the McCombs Faculty of Enterprise on the College of Texas at Austin. He presently works remotely as an engagement supervisor on the consulting agency Monevate, which relies in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Ms. Liu, who additionally grew up in Austin, has a bachelor’s diploma in rhetoric and writing and a legislation diploma from Harvard. She is a litigation affiliate within the Washington, D.C., workplace of Kirkland & Ellis.
When it got here to a marriage location, the couple, who now stay in Washington, “needed to do one thing that was a bit out of the extraordinary,” Mr. Solar mentioned. On the time, they’d traveled to 5 continents, with plans to go to Australia the next summer time. As the ultimate continent left to cross off, Antarctica instantly got here to thoughts, however they weren’t certain if, legally, marrying there was truly possible.