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Steph's Perspective: Heart broken and far from ready to date, out with her friends in St Pete January 2020 when her gal pals cleverly “bumped” her into this tall fella at the bar. Little did Steph know, she unknowingly met him not once but multiple times before in group outings! She remembered his Halloween costume a couple months prior… I mean a blow-up dinosaur costume is hard to miss. He patiently gave her his number that night as she wouldn't take his… 3 weeks later Steph adds him on good ol’ Facebook. The next day, Dakota manages to get her phone number from friends and texts her. They proceeded to slowly date for months as the world shut down until one day when she figured it was time to let their families and friends finally know each other existed (though that was clear months prior, especially the hilarious moment on a walk outside of Steph’s neighborhood when her reaction to her mom driving by was to “throw” Dakota’s hand out of hers HEHE oops). All jokes aside, she was so happy to meet a kind, patient, funny, handsome, and did I mention PATIENT gentleman… (shh, don’t tell him that). June 12th, 2020, Steph was ready to “make it official”. They thoroughly have enjoyed three years of memories full of traveling, game nights, softball, and spontaneous adventures leading up to PROPOSAL DAY on July 22, 2022. Dakota planned the most thoughtful surprise proposal on Honeymoon Island with Steph’s friends and family to celebrate. The McLeans very much look forward to their big day ahead at Covington Farm and honeymoon to follow in the Maldives.

I went downtown one night when a cute blonde girl met up with someone in my group and caught my eye. We didn’t talk much because she showed up with a boyfriend, but I didn’t forget her. A few months later I saw her dressed as a skeleton at a Halloween party. She was still very pretty and bubbly, but again I left her alone for the most part. In all honesty, I had no interest in talking to her at that point because (1) she had a boyfriend, and (2) I fully believed that she must be a bit^^. I figured there’s no way she’s that pretty, that bubbly, and has a good personality underneath*. After the Halloween party, my friends informed me that this cute blonde, Steph, is in fact that bubbly and incredibly nice all the time**. So January rolls around, again she meets up with my group downtown one night, and I knew she recently broke up with her boyfriend. Naturally, this led me to semi-stalking her around the bar all night waiting for the right moment to approach her. We had a brief exchange, but not much came of it, so as we're all leaving I stopped her and bluntly told her I was interested and wanted her number. This was remarkably unsuccessful***. She only acquiesced to taking my number and contacting me if she changed her mind. Thankfully she had a few drinks at a friend’s wedding a month later and reached out to me****. After she relented to going on the first couple of dates, it was clear she had everything I was looking for and that she changed her mind about me. Now I tell her all the time that she is so very welcome for my efforts in pursuing her and she should listen to me more*****. *Especially after she expressly asked everyone at the Halloween party to vote her as scariest [lol ya right] costume. **Clearly my friends have never asked her to do chores. ***In my defense, she thought that was the first time we met. She has no recollection of me prior to this date despite the fact I’m 6’3”, hilarious, devilishly handsome, and wore an inflatable T-Rex costume to the Halloween party which caused the dogs to bark at me all night. ****In this context “reached out” only means Steph friend requested me on Facebook. I still had to get her number from her friend’s boyfriend and then text her first. *****She has yet to listen to this advice.