Austin J Mills said he remembered Taylor Beverly Mills, then Taylor Dordick, as “the popular older girl with the quarterback boyfriend” when they were both students at Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2010.

At the time, Mr. Mills, now 30, was a junior and a star basketball player, and Mrs. Mills, 31, was in her senior year. “We had never really spoken beyond saying ‘hello,” he said.

That changed in May 2018 when they reconnected at the Los Angeles nightclub Hyde Sunset, where both were spending the evening with separate groups of high school friends. “She caught my eye, and I tried to talk to her, but she was on her way out the door,” Mr. Mills said.

The attraction was mutual. “I didn’t remember Austin being so cute in high school, but I was in a rush to leave, so I didn’t give the meeting much thought,” Mrs. Mills said.

When Mr. Mills messaged her on Instagram a few days later asking her on a date, she was surprised, she said, but didn’t hesitate to agree.

Both lived in West Hollywood at the time and met for dinner at Zinqué, a casual French restaurant in their neighborhood that they frequented — just not together. Over the meal, they talked about their respective lives, careers and families.

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