Mr. Warren had collaborated with local store owners, and directed Ms. Brophy to a playground, a sweet shop, a flower store, and a liquor store in Chinatown. The final clue led Ms. Brophy to Confucius Plaza, across the street from his apartment.

“The clue told me to get someone to help me read the sign. When I got there, there was a 30-foot banner hanging from the building he lives in, with writing in Chinese. I asked about 15 people before I found someone who could read it.”

The sign read “Will you marry me?” in Chinese.

Mr. Warren awaited Ms. Brophy with a candlelit dinner on the apartment building’s roof. “He got down on one knee and proposed…and then we went to go see ‘Napoleon Dynamite,’” Ms. Brophy adds.

The relationship and the proposal both surprised Ms. Brophy. “Two years ago I expected not to get married until I was 40,” she says. “I’ve always been skeptical of people who get married super-early. But when I started dating Jamin I think everyone knew it was serious.”

The couple will be married on July 23 in the First Presbyterian Church of Boca Raton, in Boca Raton, Fla. The couple’s blockmates will serve as bridesmaids and groomsmen.—A.M.L.

Rachel E. Finkel and Joshua Suskewicz ’05

Marriage was the “natural next step” for high school sweethearts Joshua Suskewicz ’05 and Rachel E. Finkel. Mr. Suskewicz, a 22-year-old English concentrator in Currier House, met Ms. Finkel, also 22, in 10th grade English class at Frisch High School in Paramus, N.J.

Of their high school courtship, Mr. Suskewicz deadpans that “we were the last people to know we were a couple.” It took a hike in the Catskills, where they kissed under a waterfall, for the two to cement the bond.

In their senior year, they decided to take the “serious step” of going to college in Boston together. Ms. Finkel graduated this year with a degree in art therapy from Lesley University, which is “literally two blocks” from Mr. Suskewicz’s home in the Quad. “Once that worked out well we decided we may as well make it official,” he says.

Although the setting for the proposal was dramatic—thunder and lightning, rare for the area, raged above the couple as they stood on Weeks Footbridge—the event itself was not. “We had talked about it and [Rachel] knew I was buying the ring,” Mr. Suskewicz says.

After a June wedding in Newark, N.J., with 300 guests, they plan to travel for the summer to Israel, England, Ireland and California. before moving back to the Boston area to look for work.

Ms. Finkel, a guitarist and vocalist, hopes to pursue a career in music or social work, while her fiancé is interested in renewable energy. He has a simple answer when asked why the high school relationship has worked out so well. “We share the same values, tastes and goals. All in all, we have very complementary personalities.” —A.E.L.