In late February 2021, Ms. Nikolaisen landed a job at the public relations firm Stuntman, based in New York. “Bailey immediately started increasing communications” she said.
She moved to New York on May 1, 2021. By the end of the month, they were a couple. In November, she moved in with Mr. Carlin and his three roommates in Bushwick. A year later, the couple bought a condominium in the same neighborhood.
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On Jan. 9, 2023, he asked her to come look at the sunset on the terrace of their apartment. After taking a container of popcorn out of her hand, he asked her to marry him. She was so excited, she forgot to say yes at first.
Ms. Nikolaisen is now an associate vice president of Hawkins International, a FINN Partners Company, a public relations firm in New York specializing in luxury travel. She has a bachelor’s degree in women’s and gender studies from St. Louis University.
Mr. Carlin is the founder of Bad Brain Digital Consulting, a digital media agency. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the State University of New York, Plattsburgh.
The two were wed on June 8 at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, by Samuel Koppelman, a mutual friend of the couple ordained by American Marriage Ministries for the occasion. Forty-two guests attended.
“It was truly the most unbridled happiness I can ever remember feeling,” Mr. Carlin said.
When Ms. Nikolaisen and Mr. Carlin were dating long distance, they “wrote love letters back and forth — the old-fashioned way,” Ms. Nikolaisen said. To honor that, the couple hand-wrote letters to all of the guests. “That brought a lot of really sweet tears and meaningful moments,” she said.
