Finding the Right Fit

These preschool sweethearts (yes, preschool!) say that in business, as with love, finding your match makes a world of difference.

- KIM KAVIN

Technically speaking, Andrew and Rachel Adams didn't start dating until they were 15. But Rachel made her intentions clear more than a decade earlier, in preschool, when she told Andrew's mom she was going to marry him.

Today, at age 36, they're true partners in life and business. They each earned business degrees at the University of Alabama and then worked at the same bank right out of college, before realizing they wanted to own a business. But their first effort was rough: It was a DIY craft shop near Birmingham, which opened in late 2019 and got squashed by the pandemic.