04/02/2025
A woman went to Home Depot to find love — and it actually worked! 😳😍
Katelyn Ansari decided to try a TikTok trend of women ditching the dating apps and 'showing up at Home Depot looking confused' instead.
Katelyn went up to Tryce Easter, who was also shopping in the store and asked him for help finding the necessary tools to hang a picture frame. She posted the interaction on TikTok, which went completely viral.
She then shared subsequent updates including details about their first date:
"Our first date was magical. One thing I really loved was that he was very intentional from the get. He wasn’t like, “Hey do you wanna hang out?” or “Hey are you free?” It was, “Can I take you out on a date on Monday?”
I knew his intetions. I knew what he wanted to do. I feel like the art of old fashioned dating has gone away, and one thing I said was, “Lord, if this is the man for me or this is what I should be doing, I want him to bring flowers to the door." It wasn’t necessarily that I love flowers, it was just a symbol of that he tried. It was just goona be a sign for me.
So he shows up, knocks on the door and he has flowers. I saw them and I went from being super anxious to just feeling like it was meant to be. So after he gives me the flowers, we go.
Obviously he drives and he opened the door for me, and his truck is detailed. I mean, the level of just sweetness that this man has and consideration. That’s one of his work trucks and so it’s goona be dirty, so his intention was to just make sure that it’s clean. Not saying that the truck is always going to be clean, but it’s clean for me and clean for our date.
We were texting a little bit before the date and he was like, “I have two places that I would want to take you, I kind of want to see what you want to do and we can go from there.” So when I opened the door and I had a dress on, he knew.. he was like “We’re not going to the other place I picked out. It’s too casual. We’re going to a nice steak dinner.”
So he took me to a really nice steak dinner and we had the BEST time. It was good conversation. He was such a gentleman. He opened every single door and is very masculine in the softest way possible.
We had so much in common. One thing that is so random that we have in common is that neither one of us grew up with a TV in our house because our parents were very religious and so we both grew up reading books. I just think it’s so funny how that even comes up in conversation.
And another thing I think is super crazy - he’s from Texas, I’m originally from California- I moved here about two years ago and I started country dancing about a year ago and he country dances too!
And then after we went and had dinner, we were goona go do mini golf, but unfortunately we missed it by like five minutes, so we ended up walking around the little plaza and just having conversation.
I love that I was really able to get to know him on a deeper level than just like, “What do you like to do for fun?” Instead, we talked about things like what he really wants in a relationship and what I really want. And those bigger things are actually compatible." (TT / katelynnansari)
UPDATE 3/21/2025:
4 months later, Katelyn and Tryce are still going strong! On Valentine's Day, they were invited on the Today Show to share their love story! ❤️❤️
