In the fall of 2011, we met during a Beta Club talent practice. Will was playing the piano and I was instantly drawn to him. After a few months of flirting back and forth, we went on our first date in March of 2012 to Osaka for sushi after Will's tennis match. This was my first time having sushi (happy to report the sushi experiences have increased in quality since then!). Will asked me to prom and to be his girlfriend on the same night. Now, over ten years later we are planning our wedding. A lot has happened over the past decade, we've both graduated college, I started my first accounting job, Will applied and was accepted into dental school (graduating just a few months before our wedding), we got our dog Sydney, we bought a house and have been traveling to fun places. I can't wait to make more memories as we enter our second decade together.

We had planned a trip with our best friends to Jamaica over Thanksgiving 2021. Unbeknownst to me, Will had some additional plans for this vacation. He and our friend Tyler had gone to Diamonds Direct a few months earlier to pick out the engagement ring. On one of our last nights in Jamaica, my best friend's mom suggested we meet at the gazebo for pictures before dinner. We hadn't been able to get a group photo in our 'dressed up' clothes the whole trip so I wasn't suspicious. We made our way to the gazebo and once there, Will got down on one knee to ask me to marry him. It was the most perfect proposal and we were so fortunate to celebrate with our closest friends.