Our Story

Julia and Mark first met on a rain-soaked evening in London, the kind where the pavements shine gold under the streetlights. Julia had just moved to the city to begin her first job at a publishing house near Holborn, still learning the rhythm of the Underground and the rush of the crowds. Mark, an architect born and raised in North London, had ducked into the same small bookshop in Covent Garden to escape the weather.

Reaching for the same copy of a poetry collection, they laughed at the awkward collision and struck up a conversation that lasted until the shop closed. What began as a shared umbrella walk to the Tube station slowly unfolded into years of shared Sunday markets, Thames-side walks, and a life built together in the city where they first met.