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They owe it all to guitar lessons. Or maybe the Fabergé Big Egg Hunt she talked him into. Or maybe just to proximity and timing.
Amanda Gwendolyn Hulsey was getting over a broken six-year relationship in 2010 when she decided to sign up for classes at the Brooklyn Guitar School in Park Slope as a way to broaden her horizons and meet new people. She quickly made friends and connected with the "guitar-school grapevine," as she called it.
It was at a school party several months later that she first met a guitar teacher (but not hers), Michelangelo Quirinale. She learned two things: They lived a block and a half apart in Brooklyn Heights, and he was at the party with his long-term girlfriend.
"I occasionally saw him around the neighborhood after that," said Ms. Hulsey, a senior producer for the Food Network series "Chopped." "I would cheerfully say hi to the cute, nice musician with the cool name, but he wasn't on my radar at all, because he was taken."
But the grapevine spilled the news when his relationship ended in 2013. At parties and at musical performances of mutual friends over the next few months, the two got to know each other better.
And on what Ms. Hulsey likes to call "a dark and stormy night" (because she was drinking a cocktail called Dark and Stormy, a mixture of rum, ginger beer and lime juice), they both stayed behind when others left after a concert at a Brooklyn music and comedy space. And they realized they had romantic feelings for each other.
The problem, as both of them (and perhaps some of their friends) saw it, was that they had almost nothing in common.
She was a television producer from Houston with a journalism degree from Northwestern University. He was a musician from New England, who had lived in Providence and Middlebury, Vt., and graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. She was nine years older. She was used to getting up early for work. He wasn't.
Mr. Quirinale, 30, and now a member of Thrilldriver, a heavy metal band, said, "I had kind of always felt like she's really cool, she's beautiful, but probably we aren't into the same things."
Ms. Hulsey, 39, agreed, mostly: "If you just looked at us on paper, you wouldn't say that was a perfect fit. People would ha ve pegged us for having a good time for a while."
But nothing more.
And that's how they approached their dates, as two people just having fun, for now.
As luck would have it, in early 2014 Ms. Hulsey was in the middle of another self-improvement project. Six months before, she had promised herself to do something new every day for a year. So their first months of dating consisted of Mr. Quirinale doing new things with her.
That's how they ended up sailing around Manhattan, visiting an old skating rink in Staten Island, cuddling at a dr ive-in movie theater in Warwick, N.J., and at that giant egg hunt, which was the night Mr. Quirinale realized he might be falling in love.
"We'd only been dating about a month and a half," he said. "We walked all throughout the city. We started downtown by South Street Seaport. We made it up to Rock Center." The egg hunt, a charity event, required participants to find where nearly 300 eggs were hidden throughout the city.
"The whole time I remember Amanda going into places and saying, 'Do you guys have an egg in here?' She didn't mind being silly," Mr. Quirinale said.
He loved that she didn't care what peo ple thought. "I was thinking, 'That would be a great person to spend the rest of your life with,'" he said. "Somebody who was willing to take risks" and even "somebody who would be a great mother."
For Ms. Hulsey, their Memorial Day 2014 weekend trip to Philadelphia was a turning point. "We were sort of casually dating up to that point," she said, recalling once-a-week-or-so evenings together. "There was no pressure to define what we were."
They saw the movie "Rocky," because she never had. They ran up and down the museum steps shown in the movie. By the time they posed for a selfie inside the giant human heart exhibit at the Franklin Institute, she was thinking: "It's turned into something. This could be t he guy."
Mr. Quirinale said he was thinking that it was remarkable to spend four days of concentrated togetherness and "come out of it with no arguments and not getting on anybody's nerves."
They soon found shared passions and learned, as she said, "Our commonalities are more about our personalities."
When the couple took a Labor Day camping trip in the Adirondacks, she suggested a hike, although she wasn't sure whether he would be up for it. They ended up walking 15 miles, including Mount Marcy (at 5,300 feet), the highest point in New York State.
Ms. Hulsey, a regular bicyclist, gave him a Citi Bike pass for his birthday ("the gateway drug to bike commuting," she said with a laugh). He was soon hooked on hiking and biking.
"Now we have a lot more in common," Ms. Hulsey said. "We've kind of created those things together."
The couple say the only arguments (Mr. Quirinale prefers the term "heated debates") they've had have been over politics, and that they have now realized they are more middle-of-the-road than they had thought.
And they have learned to live with daily schedules still as different as night and day.
"During the week, when Amanda's been shooting, she gets up very early, at 6," Mr. Quirinale said. "Anything before 9 or 9:30, that's not civilized." He is still teaching guitar as well, but "even if we catch up just an hour a day," he said, that's enough.
Daily life may not always be perfect, she said, but he continues to show that "little things don't bother him."
He proved that early on when her sick cat had repeated accidents in the apartment. "He would just clean up and laugh it off," she said.
"I just really appreciated that as a quality that you'd want to try to hold on to," she added. "It can also make you, yourself, not freak out, if you're with someone who's living that philosophy."
There has never been drama, nor discord in their relationship, for which Ms. Hulsey was almost apologetic. "We keep saying, it's so easy, it's so easy," she said.
On Jan. 17, they were married before their 100 or so guests, including their parents, Mary Gwynn Hulsey and Ben Hulsey of Houston and Pamela Quirinale and Josef Quirinale of Keene, N.H. The Rev. Bobby Vagt, a Presbyterian minister, officiated at the Brooklyn Winery in Williamsburg, as the first real snow showers of the season fell outside the tall windows.
All-white flower arrangements sat on tall wine barrels, and hanging white lights reflected in the windows as Emilio Tostado, a guitar school colleague of the groom's, played.
The music continued as Ms. Hulsey, in an A-line tulle gown with beaded bodice and illusion straps, walked down the aisle to "Can't Help Falling in Love."
In their vows, she and Mr. Quirinale, with his long, curly hair pulled back for the occasion, promised to respect each other's individuality as well as making the more traditional pledges. They exited the ceremony to "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
Mr. Hulsey recalled afterward that his daughter's dream man, when she was very young, was "the typical stereotype of a Texan."
"His name was Bubba, drove a pickup, rode a horse, wore jeans, boots, cowboy hat, said 'yes, ma'am, no, ma'am.'" Mr. Hulsey said. "So if Michelangelo might not be the guy we originally would have en visioned for Amanda, he is also not the guy Amanda envisioned. He's much better and will be far more interesting to live with."
The groom and his band played Beatles, Bon Jovi, AC/DC and Journey at the reception, and Doll Parts, a Dolly Parton cover band, also entertained the guests.
During the reception, the bride, now an experienced guitar player (those lessons paid off), played a rendition of "Then He Kissed Me."
As she finished, her groom did just that.
The couple live now, with a new cat, Julio (named for a Paul Simon song), in the Brooklyn Heights apartment that Ms. Hulsey has lived in for 11 years.
And she is convinced that she met Mr. Quirinale when she did because she was making a special effort to be open to the world.
"You don't know where you'd find love," he said. "I didn't think it would be the cute blond girl from down the block."
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