If you think dating apps are for lonely middle-agers who are getting tired of the sole company of their cats and/or dogs, you’ve obviously never spent time with college students. Whether you’re swiping left and right, choosing red or green, or scrolling through a screen of photos, young people today are using mobile dating apps to meet new friends, find romance, and everything in between.

It’s possible, even, that you could find your future husband or a wife on a dating app. With that in mind, here’s a speech I wrote for if/when I’m the best man in a wedding where the bride and groom met on a dating app. (Looking at you, swiping friends).

“Hey everyone, I’m the best man here, and I guess it’s customary that I say a few words at this point, so here goes nothing. Before I start, though, I want to say that the groom and I have known each other for a long time, and we did meet in person, in elementary school, the old-fashioned way, contrary to how most of his important relationships have come about these days.

I think many best men talk about the couple and how perfect they are together and how they’ve grown together and are going to make an awesome family some day, and that’s all true, but I’m going to talk today a lot about what happened before these two met – because I was there when they did first “meet,” and I knew a lot about the bride before she knew me at all.

So to start – I was there when they met.

And actually, it was when the groom and I were sitting in my apartment after we’d gotten back from a basketball game and were trying to decide what we’d get into that night. So you could also say they met in my apartment. I’m pretty important in this story, in case you haven’t gotten that yet.

The guy is a serial cell phone user, so I wasn’t surprised when he started to ignore my daily political rant and pulled up a dating app. I always knew what he was doing when he started swiping left and right like a maniac. We used to always turn it into a game by trying to guess which one the girl was in the group photo on her profile – 9 times out of 10 I was right, because he always had hopes too high.

Swiping left and right and guessing which was which, one came up that was an individual photo (which is almost unheard of for real people on this app) and he clicked on her profile. Picture 1 was her on the top of some sort of hiking trail, standing in front of a pretty scenic overlook with a Golden Retriever by her side. Sporty – that’s a check mark. Picture 2 was her in a shift dress throwing up a sorority hand sign, and it happened to be the one we had a date party coming up with. Social – another check. Picture 3 was her and her grandma. Family-oriented – check again. Picture 4 was her wearing a science lab coat. Smart – double check.

“Sporty, social, family-oriented, smart… Sounds like a wife to me,” he said.

I laughed and said “Don’t get ahead of yourself, champ,” as he swiped right, then squealed like a literal small child after matching with her.

And I guess the rest is history.

They met for coffee, she complimented his scent, and that sealed the deal for him. I remember getting a text: “Dude, she looks like the photos and she said I smell nice.” For those of you who don’t know, actually looking like the photos is a huge deal. But her looks weren’t the only thing.

This guy actually would not shut up about her for the next, well, as long as I can remember.

She started spending more and more time with him at my apartment. I broke the ice really nicely the first time I met her by telling her how I’d crept thoroughly on her social media profiles, so that was awkward, but I guess that’s how love in the 21st century goes.

The awkwardness faded, she went to med school, he went to law school, and two years later, here we are. I was there when they met on a dating app, I was there to see him be so excited that she liked him back, and then I was there to see their relationship grow into what it is today. To think it all started on a cell phone is absolutely ridiculous, but in these days, what’s not ridiculous?

I’m here today to see the start of the rest of their lives together, and I can’t wait to see how it turns out.”