Francesca is from New Jersey, Hayden is from Kentucky but they met in North Carolina. Crazy, right? Francesca was spending a long weekend in North Carolina for the first time. The sidewalk was crowded with people requesting their Uber/Lyft rides after a night of barhopping. While waiting for their rides, they noticed each other and began talking. They exchanged phone numbers and since then, there hasn’t been a day that they didn’t speak despite the distance and deployments. Hayden is in the Marine Corps and is stationed in North Carolina. Two years of communicating over phone calls, FaceTime and meeting each other halfway in Virginia to spend weekends together, Francesca left Jersey and moved down South to be with him after he popped the question. Three years after meeting, they’ll be married. In this case, you could definitely say they were in the right place at the right time.

Francesca LOVES fireworks. Hayden knows she's pretty crazy about them. She spent the Fourth of July weekend with him in North Carolina last year. They sat at the edge of a quiet dock with their feet dangling just above the water and had a perfect view of the most captivating fireworks. What could have made that moment any better? Hayden managed to find a way.. He proposed.