We first met ten years ago at Rollins College. We didn't become friends until 2017 during a show we were in together called "Crazy for You", and we made it official later that year. Chase picked Alexia up from her campus apartment and they went to Sweet Frog for frozen yogurt. The rest, as they say, is history.
After graduating from Rollins, we moved to Gainesville to start the next chapter of our lives. While Chase was in graduate school at UF for his conducting degree, Alexia started teaching piano and voice lessons to kids throughout Gainesville. We added our first fur baby to our home, a cat we called Stella.
Hoping to continue her study, Alexia auditioned virtually for graduate schools across the country during the pandemic. She found her perfect school in UNC Greensboro, and the summer after Chase graduated from UF, we packed up and headed to North Carolina. Alexia loved her masters program, and Chase found an awesome job as Music Director at a private high school nearby. Another fur baby kitty, Jarvis, entered our lives.
Chase asked Alexia to marry him on September 1st, 2023 at the Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden, a place where he watched her sing the year before. It was a beautiful warm day, and Chase walked Alexia down a memory lane of photos and writings until arriving in a small alcove, where he got down on one knee. She said yes, of course.
We are currently enjoying a wonderful and busy season our lives in our new home in High Point, NC. We are both fulfilling our dreams of getting to make music professionally every day, and the best part is that sometimes, we get to do it together. We love North Carolina, and we think we'll stay awhile.