During a trip to see Portland in October of 2012, Amanda stayed with a mutual friend and his roommates. At a group outing to carve pumpkins for Halloween, Curtis and Amanda hit it off, only shortly to go their separate ways. Five years later, Amanda sent a random text to Curtis to see how he was doing, and after a three-text threshold was met, Curtis called her and they talked for three hours that night! In February of 2018, Amanda took the leap and moved from Denver to Portland. In October of 2019, Curtis proposed by hiding the ring box inside of the pumpkin Amanda was carving!