Ava found Kevin while online shopping! (Sort of.) From the moment they matched on Hinge, something felt different. They quickly discovered that in a world that can feel impossibly large, there is a God even bigger, working all things together for His glory — including them. In their very first conversation, Kevin mentioned he was heading to Amelia Island, Florida for his cousin's wedding. Ava stopped him: her middle name was Amelia, named after the very same island where her parents, Chris and Ashley, got married. A tucked-away place beloved by both of them, one not many people know, became their very first shared connection. Ava knew she'd found someone special on their first date, when Kevin pulled out a deck of cards for a round of Go Fish and ordered a tomahawk steak for two... for himself. A man who could eat a steak like that would fit in well with her family! Kevin called his friends afterward, "I think this one is different." They fell in love in New York City, making memories across all of New York's iconic destinations: the MET, jazz clubs, Italian bistros, and concerts at Madison Square Garden. They had a magical year that was the beginning of forever. They explored each other's worlds too. Ava took Kevin to Oklahoma and put some red dirt on his boots. They wove themselves into each other's friendships and families, every new introduction met with a resounding stamp of approval. The night Kevin met Ava's parents, May 8th, 2025, he pulled her aside afterward and told her, "Ava, I don't know when, but one day I'm going to marry you." Exactly one year later, on May 8th, 2026, Kevin got down on one knee in Amelia Island — where it all began — and Ava said yes. Kevin Tyler Rohde and Ava Amelia Swanson are engaged to be married on July 24th, 2027.

“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”