He’s a Man of Few Words. Especially Over Text.

After connecting with Kathryn Elizabeth Mullen on the Hinge dating app in April 2020, Weston Hjalmar Skillicorn suggested meeting at 8 p.m. in a remote mountain location outside Denver to watch the sunset the next day.

“I was so creeped out,” said Ms. Mullen, who goes by Kate. “I texted my friends, and they were like, ‘No. He’s going to murder you.’”

Mr. Skillicorn said he just thought it would be “cool,” because there was going to be a full moon and he was going to bring along a bottle of wine.

Instead they agreed to meet a week later, in daylight, in Washington Park. Unfortunately, Denver experienced record-low temperatures that day: 11 degrees. “I remember my teeth chattering while we talked,” Ms. Mullen, 30, said.

The two still chatted for hours, eventually moving the conversation to his car. “It was way better than I could have imagined,” Mr. Skillicorn, 33, said. “I don’t talk too much, and I was keeping pace.”

They talked about everything, they said, from religion to politics. “We got in the trenches,” Ms. Mullen said. “I felt like we had been on five dates.”

Mr. Skillicorn texted that night, suggesting a date and time for the next meeting.

She found it a bit odd. But, Ms. Mullen said, “He thought he was being romantic and making sure we had a time locked in. His engineer mind works so differently from mine.”

Other than locking in the next date, Mr. Skillicorn, who goes by Wes, was not big on texting. A self-described “man of few words,” Mr. Skillicorn said, “I would rather have the conversations in person.”

Their second date took place in Cheesman Park in Denver in late April, and the following week saw their “first fancy date,” as Ms. Mullen put it, which was dinner at Uchi, a Japanese restaurant in Denver. “I remember being so nervous,” Ms. Mullen said. “Wes must have been even more nervous because he wore a full-blown suit.”

On their fourth date, in mid-May, they became official.

Ms. Mullen, who grew up in Denver, is an academic adviser and program manager at Revolution Prep, a test preparation and academic tutoring company based in Los Angeles. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver in psychology and communications.

Mr. Skillicorn is a controls engineer at Brock Solutions, based in Kitchener, Ontario in Canada. He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from California State University in Chico, Calif., where he grew up. A previous marriage ended in divorce.

Ms. Mullen described herself as “the most extroverted extrovert you’ll ever meet,” adding that “Wes’s listening ear” is one of the things she loves “most.” She said that she likes to think broadly about their adventures, while he enjoys the logistics. “It’s kind of like finishing each other sentences but in actions,” she said. “I start it. He carries it through.”

In July 2021, Ms. Mullen moved into Mr. Skillicorn’s condo in downtown Denver. Two years later, they bought their first home together in Englewood on the south side of Denver, where they now live.

Mr. Skillicorn proposed to Ms. Mullen in August 2023, while visiting a lake in Evergreen, Colo. She was so busy taking photos that “he was down on one knee for five minutes before I even noticed,” Ms. Mullen said.

The two began making plans for a wedding in Mexico when Ms. Mullen learned in April that she was pregnant. “I was excited in a way I didn’t expect,” Mr. Skillicorn said.

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The pregnancy made them rethink their wedding, with plans to marry locally with friends and family, “then do the Mexico thing later,” she said.

Then they got terrible news: In early June, she learned the baby didn’t have a heartbeat. “My body officially miscarried a month later,” Ms. Mullen said.

After taking medication prescribed to her, Ms. Mullen still had to undergo a dilation and curettage, or D&C, a procedure that removes remaining tissue from the uterus. She said she felt like she had “failed as a woman.” But then, the more she shared this information, “the more women opened up to me about experiencing the exact same thing.”

“To see her going through the pain, it’s so hard,” Mr. Skillicorn said. “I just tried to be there by her side.”

The miscarriage made them rethink the wedding once again. They ultimately married on July 27 in the backyard of Ms. Mullen’s family home in Cherry Hills Village, Colo. She described the venue as “more comforting.” The bride’s father, David John Mullen, Jr., who was ordained by Universal Life Church for the occasion, officiated before 137 guests.

The night was perfect, the couple said, even if the weather wasn’t. “All of a sudden it rained for a solid 10 minutes,” Ms. Mullen said. “Everyone put their napkins over their heads and just kept eating and laughing and dancing,” she added. “It was so magical.”