They met while working at Abe's Waterfront restaurant, in Sodus Point, during the summer of 2016. Alaina was a server and Preston worked in the kitchen. Preston says that after he met Alaina for the first time he said to a coworker "She's the one". Their story didn't begin there though. Preston was persistent, while Alaina played "hard to get" as you would say. After two years of remaining good friends, Preston called Alaina the day before Valentines day in 2018, and asked her on a date. She traveled to Buffalo to visit Preston the following weekend and there is where their real story began.