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Jared and Alicia met at Sunset church of Christ in spring of 2019. Although that neither of them knew for sure if it was a "date" or not, their first date was twelve hours long! They had hung out a few times before with their friends, so both just assumed it was a similar thing. It started with getting coffee at Tova (for 6 hours) and then getting dinner at Cane's, going dutch for both (Alicia will never let Jared live that down), and then going to watch a movie with the group of friends. Rachel (bridesmaid) saw them arrive together and pulled Alicia aside to ask if it was a date or not, when Alicia didn't know, Rachel told her to find out. So at the end of the night, Jared drove Alicia back to her dorm. She went in for a kiss on the cheek, he went in for a hug, and they ended up sharing their first kiss. And the rest is history!

It wasn't much of a secret that Jared would be proposing sometime in the near future. Heck, Alicia was the first person Jared told that he had asked her dad for his permission while in town for Christmas. She thought it would have been months later, near their anniversary in April, but that didn't stop her from constantly asking him over and over when was it gonna happen. One Saturday, at the end of January, Jared told her that he had to work a catering and would be gone all day, only going to hang out with Reese and play video games. Rachel had asked Alicia earlier in the week to go get nails done, but Alicia being oblivious turned her down, but agreed to get dressed up to go take pictures around Lubbock with her and Amanda that Saturday, when Jared was "working". The girls went to Tech's seal to go take pictures and all of the sudden, Jared popped out from behind the seal to a very surprised now fiancé!