Eric M. Tulla ’03 & Nilda M. Isidro ’04

July 2004

“After six-and-a-half years of dating, the time just seemed right,” Nilda M. Isidro ’04 said of her engagement to long-time boyfriend Eric M. Tulla ’03. Both members of the couple are natives of Ponce, Puerto Rico, where they started dating in high school. They decided to come to Harvard and managed to stay close despite their busy schedules.

Tulla and Isidro were both swamped with work in April when she suggested they go out to dinner in the North End. Though Isidro proposed the date, Tulla used the opportunity for a proposal of his own. He had the waitress bring out a bottle of champagne, and then asked Isidro to marry him. “I cried for 45 minutes,” she says. “The whole restaurant was watching.” The two will marry next July, and Tulla will stay in Boston next year, developing video games.

Eric S. Barr ’03 & M. Rachael Lovett ’03

August 2004

Eric S. Barr ’03 and M. Rachael Lovett ’03 lived about eight miles apart in Louisville, Ky., but it took them until pre-frosh weekend to meet each other. Though both entered Harvard dating other people, they became good friends their first year, and more than friends by the December of their sophomore year.

After two years of dating, the two became engaged. They will live apart for a year after graduation while Barr will work in Seattle for Microsoft and Lovett studies neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin. “We’re not looking forward to being apart, but it makes the most sense for both of our careers,” Barr says, adding that he will most likely purchase several plane tickets next year. The couple will marry next August, before Barr joins Lovett at the University of Wisconsin, where he will attend law school.

Joshua C. Herring ’03 & Lauren Webb

July 21, 2003

The summer before he began high school, Joshua Herring ’03 went to a Christian camp in his home-state of Tennessee. While there, he met Lauren Webb, who lived in a neighboring town. Though the two spent the summer together, Herring says they did not stay in close touch when school began. Their high schools were half an hour apart, and they saw each other only at the occasional football game.

It wasn’t until Herring’s sophomore year at Harvard, when they were a full 16-hour drive apart, that the two began dating. Herring says he struck up a conversation with Webb over AOL Instant Messenger and took her on a bowling date during their Thanksgiving break. By Christmas, their relationship became official. Herring says he proposed to Webb at the camp where they first met—“the spot where we had our first kiss,” he explains. She agreed, and the couple plans to marry this summer in Tennessee.

Jeffery Heck ’03 & Hannah E. Kenser ’04

July 3, 2004

Jeffery Heck ’03 and Hannah E. Kenser ’04 met on a cruise sponsored by the campus group Christian Impact when he was a sophomore and she a first-year. By November of that year, they were a couple. This past spring break, Heck took Kenser to a friend’s wedding in his hometown of Cincinnati. After congratulating his buddy, Heck says he decided to cook up a celebration of his own. He brought Kenser a menu one morning, offering to treat her to breakfast in bed. “I think she ordered French Toast,” he says. But when Heck lifted the lid off the silver platter, he revealed a sparkling engagement ring. Hannah accepted the delectable proposal, and the two will marry next summer.