This love story began in September of 2014 when Allison attended a backyard concert, which Mike’s band was playing. The two had an instant connection but didn’t start dating until the following April, due to Allison being in a relationship with someone else. The two have been inseparable ever since meeting that night though. The two managed a long distance relationship by going to each other’s houses every weekend to spend time together. They went on many adventures during those weekends including Havasu, Las Vegas, Big Bear, and even got Disneyland passes to spend more time together, or that’s what Allison said to Mike to convince him to take her to Disneyland all the time. Mike knew right away that Allison was the one he wanted to marry and spend his life with so when he bought the ring 6 months after dating her he wanted to wait for the right time. He knew their relationship had trials and tribulations to go through before he could ask the question, but on July 29th 2017, he was confident and ready to pop the question. He tricked her so she wouldn’t figure out what he was doing, and said they were meeting his cousin and his cousins fiancé down at Huntington Beach for his cousins birthday. They drove down there and little to Mike’s knowledge it was the first day of the US Surf Open so the beach was completely jam packed! They paid $30 to park in a far away lot and he said he didn’t care because they were late to see his cousin, but in reality he was just really nervous. He took her out to the pier and said that his cousin would be meeting them there. Allison went along with the whole thing completely oblivious to the idea that Mike would be proposing. Mike then looked at Allison in the eyes and said his cousin wasn’t there and that he wanted to do something special for her. He then got down on one knee in front of everyone on the pier and asked her to marry him! She was speechless but screamed yes!