We met in the summer of 2013 through mutual friends. Francis remembered Cassandra's crass sense of humor and her dimples when she smiled, but Cassandra couldn’t even tell Francis and his brother apart! We would continue to cross paths at social events and eventually our friendship turned into a relationship in 2015. The next few years we enjoyed being together whether it was spent binge watching Food Network, discovering new restaurants, or traveling. The #1 place we both wanted to visit was Japan. After a year of planning, Francis proposed to Cassandra underneath the cherry blossoms at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden on March 30, 2019.