Way before the wedding, although Jayni Shah and William Dixon first came across each other on Hinge in 2018, they can technically say that a friend set the pair up. “I noticed a photo of him with a work friend of mine on his profile,” Jayni recalls. “This friend turned out to be William’s very best childhood friend. We both texted him, he strongly recommended we meet, and the rest is history!
”William, an emergency medicine physician, and Jayni, a software venture capitalist, nurtured their relationship in San Francisco, but would often head north to William’s family ranch in California wine country. “The ranch has been a very special place for us as a couple,” says Jayni. “We spent a lot of time up there during the COVID lockdown when William had time off from the hospital. I wasn’t able to go visit my parents in India for over two years during the pandemic, and found comfort in spending time with William’s family and all our friends up at the house, and in nature.” It made perfect sense, then, that William would pop the question to Jayni in that special place in the summer of 2022.