2010 - 2011:  Early Roots

  • July 12, 2010 – Chelsea and Warren meet on Chelsea’s first day of work at Tudor, Pickering, Holt, & Co. ("TPH") in Houston, Texas.  Chelsea is assigned to the cubicle next to Warren. 
  • March 2011 – Chelsea and Warren are becoming close friends. The ever-insightful TPH executive, Alie Pruner, calls Chelsea into her office to inquire as to whether or not she and Warren need to disclose an intra-company relationship.  We don't.  Yet.
  • July 2011 – Warren relocates to New York to help open the company’s new office branch.
  • September 2011 – Chelsea comes to New York to visit. Warren takes her to Motorino for pizza and wine, followed by a show at The Comedy Cellar. Their first date? The comedians heckling them all night sure think so!
  • November 2011 – Warren makes his first trip to New Hampshire!  His introduction to Chelsea's male-dominated, hockey-crazed family? A pick-up hockey game at Campion Rink. With only a black eye and some bruised ribs, Warren survives.
  • February 2012 – Chelsea and Warren decide it is time to officially disclose a relationship to TPH CFO and compliance officer, Alie Pruner. Warren's mother, Holly, a labor and employment attorney, panics, just a bit, 

2012 - 2013:  Zero to Sixty

  • March 2012 – Warren moves back to Houston, and he and Chelsea move into their first apartment together.
  • May 2012 – Two cats, Beau and Grant, become C&W's first pets. And after being rescued from behind a near-by Whataburger, a third cat, dubbed Fenway, rounds out the feline portion of the family.
  • July 2012 – Warren gets his first real vacation from work in 3 years.  Chelsea surprises him in London for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
  • October 2012 – Chelsea and Warren move into their first house together, 2225 W Main Street in Houston.
  • December 2012 - Chelsea's parents give Warren hockey skates for Christmas. Holly gives Chelsea her first pair of custom boots.
  • May 2013 - Chelsea relocates to Boston for work.  Over the next year, United Airline's stock price jumps 25%, due at least in part to the exorbitant number of trips she and Warren make between Boston and Houston.
  • October 2013 - Warren applies to business school.
  • December 2013 - Chelsea decides she's had enough of the distance relationship and decides to apply to business school too. She and Warren ring in the new year drafting essays for an early January deadline.

2014:  Back to School

  • March 2014 – Chelsea and Warren decide to move to Hanover to pursue their MBAs at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.  They matriculate in September.
  • April 2014 – C&W add another member to the family - this time a German Shepherd.  They name him West, after their first home on West Main Street in Houston. 
  • May 2014 – Chelsea and Warren move into their new house in New Hampshire, 120 Three Mile Road. They quickly learn the difference between "yardwork" and "property management".
  • August 2014 – Warren buys an engagement ring (which will sit in a drawer for 9 months).
  • January 2015 – Warren asks Chelsea's parents for their blessing.  

2015 - 2016:  Engaged!!

  • January 2015 - March 2015 – Chelsea’s mom avoids her at all costs to avoid ruining the surprise.  Chelsea thinks they are in a fight but isn’t sure why.
  • March 27, 2015 – Taking it full circle from his first introduction the family, Warren proposes at Campion Rink while the two families hide in a locker room with champagne.  When Warren gets down on a knee on his skates, Chelsea assumes he has fallen down.  Fair assumption.
  • April 2015Alie Pruner and TPH throw Chelsea and Warren a wonderful engagement party in Houston with all of their old colleagues.  Bobby Tudor credits himself for the relationship, and Maynard Holt offers Chelsea’s parents a fairness opinion.
  • June 2015 – Dub’s Taqueria is incorporated in Hanover, New Hampshire.  Chef Warren enlists the help of Chelsea’s mom to run the taco stand for the summer.  Warren pulls more all-nighters cooking than he did as an investment banker.  They have long lines and sell out nearly every week.
  • February 2016 – Chelsea and Warren begin wedding planning (only partially kidding)!
  • June 12, 2016 – Chelsea and Warren graduate from Tuck (pending...)
  • July 3, 2016 – Chelsea and Warren get married!!
  • Much more to come...