The year was 2018, Dakota had just graduated from Adelphi where Alessia was a senior. The bar was RJ Daniel’s, where the floors were sticky and the Friday night “twofers” special drew in quite a crowd. From the moment Dakota saw Alessia walk into the bar, he knew he had to find a way to talk to her, but Alessia had disappeared. For the rest of the night, Dakota was searching for the girl in the denim jacket. As her night at the bar was coming to a close, Alessia was getting ready to leave with her friends, but not before someone had approached her group. Alessia’s friends gestured to the person standing behind her, to indicate that he was trying to talk to her. Alessia let her friends know she would just take one second to see who was trying to get her attention before they left. She turned around and there was Dakota, waiting with the line he had been working on all night: “I like your jacket”. Who would have known that November night at RJ Daniel’s would have led to the start of our love story. Now, almost six and a half years later, we cannot wait to celebrate the start of our marriage with the people we love most!