Lulu and Daniel met their freshman year of high school: she attended Ursuline Academy of Dallas and he went to Jesuit College Preparatory. They ran around with the same group of friends in high school, but they never dated. (She happened to date his best friend in high school.) She stayed close to home to attend college at SMU, but Daniel traveled back to northern California (where he was from) to attend Santa Clara University. However, before their senior year in college while Daniel was home for the summer, something changed. He asked her out on a date and she happily obliged. They dated long-distance for the next few years. She went off to France to teach school just when he moved back to Dallas. Not long after she moved back to town, she moved to attend law school in Houston. Even though Lulu’s roots are in Dallas, she followed Daniel to Sacramento in January of 2015.
About a month after Lulu moved to California, she went back to Dallas for a weekend in February. “Of course, the weekend I went back, it iced over in Dallas. Little did I know that he was following me to Dallas that weekend to surprise me,” Lulu says. However, it wasn’t that easy. Daniel’s flights were canceled due to the legendary storm. His family and friends chipped in to help trying to get him a flight–his parents even offered to drive to Austin to pick him up. They would not let Daniel miss this momentous occasion. And he didn’t. He finally found a flight and landed at 3:00 a.m. That Saturday morning, Lulu’s family took her to brunch at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, and she was summoned by the hostess to go into a side room. Daniel was dressed in a dapper suit waiting for her. “I was so surprised, I had no idea what he had to go through to get me to propose,” she says. That night they celebrated at her parent’s house with friends and family.
Daniel graduated from Santa Clara University where he studied biology. He works for a biotech company called CellMarque. Lulu went to SMU where she studied political science and French. She went to South Texas College of Law in Houston. She works for Churchwell White and practices labor and employment law, as well as municipal law. They will marry Saturday, October 17, 2015, at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek.
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