ALEXANDRIA, Va. – When Jenn Meffert and Zach Quinn decided to make their relationship official, they didn’t plan a surprise proposal. They planned a day — a whole Alexandria day — and did it together.
On July 11, the city’s 277th birthday, the Old Town North couple moved their matching Claddagh rings from their right hands to their left. It was a quiet, deliberate gesture — no down-on-one-knee moment, no secret kept — that said everything about how they operate. That evening, they joined thousands of neighbors at Oronoco Bay Park and stood in the rain watching fireworks arc over the Potomac.
“Our relationship is very egalitarian,” Jenn said. “There’s no better way to represent that than to both be able to say and show that we love each other and want to spend the rest of our lives together.”…