Clear Cut Couples: Hanna and Jarrett
Hanna and Jarrett met at CrossFit Downtown Atlanta following the re-opening of businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Hanna had just moved to Atlanta to start the PA Program at Emory University. There was a small group of people from the gym that would get together regularly at a restaurant called Cold Beer and sit on the patio under the heaters in the winter during the acute phase of the pandemic and sip Old Fashioned cocktails. They were friends through this group for about a year before becoming interested in dating each other.
The interest that brought them together was their shared love for food. They would send each other restaurant recommendations and new dessert items from bakeries then eventually started going to try them together. Their first real date was at a "fancy" southern style restaurant called Revival. They have been together for four years since and have shared countless incredible memories!
At the time they started dating, Hanna was in her second year of PA school getting ready to start clinical rotations and Jarrett was a pilot for Spirit Airlines. The first year of their relationship was marked by the growth of both of their careers. Hanna graduated from Emory with her dream job offer and Jarrett had been offered a job with Delta Airlines. As a result of these transitions, they found themselves with a few months of free time so in early 2023, they decided to renovate Jarrett’s house to transform it into their house together. They shared many hours anguishing over paint samples, going over ideas that they had for making their small home something they would be proud of, and digging through surplus stores for anything they thought might help during the renovation. It was during this period that Hanna and Jarret really grew to rely on each other, and learned how to work together as a couple.
They love to travel around the world and both have lots of flexibility to do so with their jobs. They travel to Europe in the fall, ski during the winter, and go to the beach over the summer. Hanna is an only child so she and her parents are very close. Her parents are also a lot of fun and have become more like peers, so they do a lot of traveling all together. Hanna's mom and Jarret love Champagne so they decided to plan a trip to the Champagne region of France. The trip had been planned for over two years so Hanna did not have this on her radar for a possible engagement. She also had no inclination that he had been designing her engagement ring with The Clear Cut. He was derailed numerous times throughout the trip trying to propose. It rained nearly every single day and was much colder than they had anticipated. On their last day of tastings in the Champagne region and the only day it didn’t rain on the trip, Jarrett finally proposed. They took a wrong turn locating the parking lot and ended up in a beautiful vineyard instead, they didn't have much time before the tasting so they decided to come back afterwards. Under the guise of taking a photo is when he dropped to one knee.
Jarret proposed in the vineyard in Ay, France. The only person that knew he had planned to propose was Hanna's dad. He proposed to her with the same ring her grandfather proposed to her grandmother with and her father proposed to her mother with. After she said yes and put that ring on, he pulled out the ring he had made with The Clear Cut to give to her as her engagement ring. Her grandmother's ring is also an old European cut in an art deco setting that she now wears on her right hand.
She was completely surprised and had no idea. She had no clue that he had traveled to New York earlier in the summer and the night before he proposed, she had even shown him an old European cut diamond posted on The Clear Cut’s Instagram. The only person that knew was her dad and he had not even told her mom. Her mom may have even been more surprised than Hanna was!
They will be getting married in Savannah, Georgia this coming September. Savannah was the first place that they traveled together as a couple and has become one of their favorite cities to visit, and has some fantastic restaurants that they like to frequent! Hanna is Catholic so they will be having a Catholic ceremony followed by a garden party reception at the Ships of the Sea Museum gardens. Congrats you two! We are SO happy for you!