Rachel and Brandon met by pure happenstance. Brandon needed to pull together a team of excellent Intramural Volleyball players last minute and Rachel ended up on the team. They began going to drop in games and regularly spending increasing amounts of time together after games. Eventually, they went to The Social speakeasy for a first date (and probably annoyed the waitress with their 4 hour dinner) and the rest is history.

Brandon masterfully crafted a plan that Rachel would never see through. He went to spend the night at one of his Groomsmen’s places (ring shopping), stopped by Rachel’s parents for their blessing on the way back home, stored the ring at the bottom of his very necessary box of cables in the boiler room, and then hid it again under a lens in his camera bag during a trip to the beach. He then dropped to a knee to take a picture of her with the sunset but “the camera battery was dead”. You can guess what he did next.

After bottomless mimosas on Easter, Brandon keenly suggested they go pet puppies at the Boulder Humane Society under the premise they wouldn’t adopt any dogs. Oops…