Ashley Wren Collins and Jordan Rockwell both graduated with a BA in English and Theater Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. While there, they never met. They were, after all, two years apart. They did, however, have a good friend in common, Matt. Matt talked about Jordan to Ashley and Ashley to Jordan. Jordan even saw Ashley and Matt perform together on stage, but alas, they were never formally introduced.

Several years later, Matt and Jordan were in Philadelphia for a class reunion while Ashley was in Philadelphia with her boyfriend at the time for a theater reunion. Matt finally introduced Ashley and Jordan to one another at the historic 30th Street Station. Ashley remembers being surprised that Jordan had red hair and noticing that he was very…loud.

Several years after that, Jordan and Ashley found themselves at Matt’s wedding in Saint Martin. They spent the entire weekend sipping pina coladas, cracking each other up on the beach, and poking fun at themselves and wedding and hotel guests. Jordan even developed a massive crush on the lead singer of the wedding band, to the point that when he asked Ashley to dance at the wedding reception, he made sure to call the attention of the wedding singer, point to Ashley, and declare loudly, “I am NOT with her!”

Out of this wedding was born their idea for She Wrote, He Wrote: A New York Love Story.

A year later, Jordan was invited to another wedding at the same hotel in Saint Martin. Though he’d just began dating a new woman, he was hesitant to invite her as his date to a destination wedding so early in the relationship and since Ashley already knew many of the people invited to the wedding (even the wedding band was the same), he asked her if she would join him as his platonic date. Several weeks after Wedding II in Saint Martin, Ashley met Francisco, the man who would become her husband, and several years after that, Jordan married Julie, the woman he began dating in between Wedding I and Wedding II in Saint Martin.

Having come of age in New York City (Ashley) and Los Angeles (Jordan), Ashley and Jordan are intimately familiar with the ups and downs of dating in the modern world. They are both thankful to have found wonderful spouses and to be happily married, and not to each other. (If you thought this story ended with them marrying each other, spoiler alert, it doesn’t, because that would be ewwww!)

When Ashley’s not writing, she’s acting, producing, directing, and choreographing for theater and film in New York City or enjoying time with her family. When Jordan’s not writing, he’s acting and directing or enjoying time with his family in Culver City, California.