Anisha Chopra and Spencer Poorman met in college and reconnected after several years when the two took a camping trip together.
Anisha Chopra was living in New York and had never been camping when she decided in 2015 that she was wanted to spend a night in the wilderness, and so she asked for some guidance.
“I have cute Nikes!” was how she put it to a friend from Cornell, Spencer Poorman, who lived in Colorado and was working on a master’s degree in business analytics at the University of Colorado. He seemed likely to know how to go about it, as his social media was awash with pictures of him roughing it. He is now a manager for commercial finance in the Basking Ridge, N.J., headquarters of Verizon.
The two hadn’t seen each other since 2010, when he had graduated, so her request for camping advice inspired an answer that she hadn’t expected.
“He said, ‘Thank you for asking. I’ve been well. Hi,’” she said, laughing. “Which is pretty representative of both of our personalities.”
After he had ascertained that she wasn’t prepared, “He said very sweetly, ‘Don’t go camping alone. You will die,’” she said. “And I’m not someone who likes to hear no, so I said, ‘Do you want to go with me?’”
The two met at a fraternity party in 2009 at Cornell, from which both graduated, and they soon developed a regular lunch-under-the-clocktower ritual there. Neither had a crush, they say, though they attended a formal together. Any possibility of a romance fizzled when a friend took her aside and advised her that Mr. Poorman might be getting back together with a former girlfriend.
“I got nervous and basically ignored him all night,” said Ms. Chopra, who is now 28 and the special operations director at Chief, a New York network for senior executive women.
But the camping trip? A less mixed result.
They went on a hike in the Arapaho National Forest in Boulder County, Colo., to find the Rainbow Lakes after which their campground was named, and became separated.
“Her legs are a lot shorter than mine and I kept turning around to make sure she was there, but I was walking a lot faster than she was,” said Mr. Poorman, now 33. “At one point, I looked back, and she just wasn’t there. I was pretty shook.”
Her version of the story tells another tale. “We were having very different times,” she said. “He was like, ‘I let this girl go alone in the woods and she’s dead,’ and I was like, ‘It’s a beautiful day in the woods.’”
After they reunited, the two shared a first kiss. “It organically turned into what you might call a first date,” Mr. Poorman said.
A few months later, when he flew to New York to have Thanksgiving with his parents, who live in Bronxville, N.Y., the two had a proper first date.
By Christmas, when he again flew home for the holidays, Ms. Chopra was falling in love. A few months later, on a ski trip together in Colorado, she realized that this was it for her. “He’s goofy and funny and loves adventure as much as I do,” she said.
Mr. Poorman had an epiphany at about the same time. “It’s scary to be dating or trying to date someone long distance, but I remember talking to a friend and they were like, ‘If you actually care about her, screw all the details,’” he said.
On July 24, at the Greentree Country Club in New Rochelle, N.Y., the two were married before around 270 guests in a ceremony that combined both Christian and Hindu elements. The Rev. Samuel T. Clover, a minister of the Reformed Church in America, officiated, with Pandit Arun Dwivedi, a Hindu priest, taking part in the event, which was originally planned for 2020 but was postponed because of the coronavirus.
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