Meghan Simchock and Tyler Kapela met in 2018 when he joined a group of friends out for a bar crawl in Huntington to celebrate Simchock’s 22nd birthday.

“Afterward, four of us went out for pizza, and he took a bite of pizza right out of my mouth,” she said. “He was being goofy. He was the only one who took the bait to do it.”

“It was crust,” clarified Kapela, 31, who is from Mineola.

After that evening, they talked for a year, Simchock said, then didn’t talk for a year, then started talking again. He asked her to marry him on Dec. 23, 2023, during a walk on the beach in Port Jefferson. They were celebrating Simchock’s mother’s birthday, with her parents and sister, while a friend was hiding along the beach. “I was absolutely shocked,” she said.

They married June 6 at East Wind Long Isl

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