Welcome friends and family! The couple is so excited to share this day with you all!

Corey and Alyssa met in college. As a high school football star Corey had a few schools looking into him for college. Alyssa had a lot of options as a student with great grades and lots of acceptance letters. Obviously they both ended up at SAU. Alyssa was a psychology major and Corey was needing an elective for his Exercise Science major. He just happened to pick Developmental Psychology, and they ended up in the same class. Corey told one of his friends in the class that he could "get her" and then didn't talk to her other than about grades in that class every once in a while. That semester ended and summer passed. The next semester, Family Day, September 1st, 2016,  they had contact again when Corey was waiting to eat in the cafeteria with his team, and Alyssa and her family were cooling off after the days festivities. Alyssa was crushing on him so she sent him a message and asked if they could get a picture after the game that night. The next week, they found an excuse to see each other every day. Since then they've been pretty much inseparable. 

Corey wanted it to be perfect. So perfect that he waited 8 months after buying the ring to pop the question. The day finally came and the couple was going on a hike with some of their best friends who are the maid of honor and a groomsman now. It was mid-July on the perfectly clear day of the 1000ft hike. After spending some time enjoying the view, Alyssa was posing for a couple pictures her friend was taking and Corey walked up to her and asked how the climb was. Alyssa replied with, "hard but worth it." And Corey, very smoothly, said, "well good, I hope every mountain we climb together is worth it" as he got down on one knee. Alyssa started crying immediately and Corey pulled out the ring and said "will you marry me?" Speechless Alyssa just nodded and the two hugged and Corey said, "you thought it was never going to happen, huh?" And they laughed. Alyssa began planning before they even got home.

After he graduated in May, Corey moved back to Texas and started teaching and coaching at his hometown school and the football team just won the State Championship. Alyssa just graduated from college at the beginning of December and joined Corey in Texas. She started working at the elementary school in the same district as Corey as an inclusion teacher just days after graduation. The two are both working on obtaining their teaching certificates.