Conor and I met in Chattanooga where we both went to college. My roommate at the time invited me to come hang out with a few of her high school friends one night and Conor happened to be there since they had gone to high school together. As soon as we met we knew there was an instant connection and we ended up talking and laughing that whole night until the sun came up. We actually just "hung out" for a few months before we became official, but then on April Fool's Day 2013 Conor asked me if we wanted to become serious. Of course, I said yes! Conor and I still mess around saying we have the longest running April Fool's Joke there ever was. Maybe we should call the Guinness book of world records…

I had been planning for our engagement to happen in Iceland for months. I knew I wanted to do it early in our two-week trip so that we could enjoy the vacation as an engaged couple. So, I picked a few spots that I knew would be incredibly beautiful that were in the first few days of our trip. I was worried we wouldn't be able to get to my first-choice proposal spot, a waterfall called Haifoss, but after watching the weather and roads for weeks before hand I knew with a little bit of work we could make it there. Getting there was about a four-hour round trip from where we were staying into one of the most deserted areas on the south coast of Iceland. The road to the waterfall was difficult to drive on because it was covered with a large amount of deep potholes…we also decided to pick up a hitch-hiking Dutch couple along the way, but we all made it there in one piece. It was absolutely frigid on the edge of the waterfall, but it was gorgeous. I didn't tell the Dutch couple my plan, but when I had a moment I coaxed B over to the edge of the cliff…she didn't want to get too close to the edge for fear of me pranking her, but she reluctantly came. With tears in my eyes I got down on one knee and proposed. Luckily the Dutch couple saw what was happening and snapped a candid photo of the moment. So, in front of only two strangers on top of one of the tallest waterfalls in Iceland I proposed to her and she said yes. We celebrated by taking a swing of Icelandic Schnapps, Brennivin, and soaked in the moment. Had it not been so cold we would have stayed longer, but the weather got the best of us and we retreated to the warmth of our car; newly engaged.