John & Juliana
John & Juliana

John Dixon and Juliana Botne-Phillips

#J&J4eva
May 3rd 2025
Ocho Rios Jamaica
162 Days
21 Hours
17 Minutes

Many of you already know our story, for those of you that don't, here it is.

 

John and Juliana met at CSI (The College of Staten Island) in the fall of 2014 through mutal friend groups. Over the next few months, there were several flirtatious encounters, dancing at parties, getting coffee, and seeing each other in passing. One day, as John was coming out of a Introduction to Metaphysics course, studying free will, he ran into Juliana, who had a class in the same room following his. She saw they had the same professor and said, "Hey, you have him as a professor too, isnt he the worst?"

 

"Actually, he's one of my favorite professors," John replied. To which a now embarrassed Juliana follows up, "Yeah, but philosophy is such a boring class, right?" After an akward pause, John responded, "Philosophy is actually my major..." Juliana, attempting to take her foot out of her mouth asked, "Oh my god, I am doing so bad and need a good grade for the nursing program, do you think you can help me?"

 

On April 8th, 2015, they met up so that John could tutor Juliana on ethics. John, being nervous because he had a crush on Juliana was rambling on about ethics and morality. Luckily, Juliana found John's intelligence very attractive and suggested they go get dinner instead. They met up again two days later to hang out and watch movies. They hung out nearly every day the next month and on May 3rd, 2015, they made things official. Ten years later (to the day) they are finally making their marriage legal.

Our Destination

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