Our story began years before Chase and I began dating—when our childhood best friends happened to get married. For the longest time, they kept suggesting that we meet, always saying we’d be a perfect match. Years passed, and then one day, Chase finally asked me out for a drink at the Catalina Lounge in Point Loma. Not too long after that we began dating. We both knew what we had found in each other, and it didn’t take long before we made a big decision: we moved across the country to North Carolina to start building our future together. Once we settled into our new life and bought a house together, Chase proposed—right there on the front steps of our new home.