In 2015, actress Lana Condor and actor and musician Anthony De La Torre met at an Emmys party. “We were both there alone and saw each other from across the room,” remembers Lana, best known for her starring role in Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, based on the 2014 novel by Jenny Han. “And that was that—we both knew that day would forever change the course of our lives.
We just didn’t know exactly how...
but boy, did our lives change for the better!” They went on their first date a day after they met, and then a second date the following day, and since then, they’ve been inseparable. The two got engaged in December of 2021, when they were in Mexico for the Christmas holiday. “Anthony had planned this elaborate engagement on a cliffside with musicians and food and everything, but we had gotten sick so we were in the room,” Lana remembers.
“He was in a bad mood, and I didn’t know why at the time, but it was because his plans had been foiled. I was laying in bed watching TV, and he was spending a lot of time on the balcony. He came in and asked me to come out onto the balcony, and when I stepped outside, [I saw that] he had lit a hundred little candles and had set out all of my favorite foods on the table.
I was so shocked and surprised, and he bent down and said, ‘This isn’t how I was planning to do this. But it feels so fitting to our relationship that we always can adjust and be flexible when things don’t go perfectly to plan.’ He .
