After moving back to Birmingham, one Sunday morning in 2021, Demetrice walked into a small church in the neighborhood he grew up in and decided to give it a try. He started attending regularly and eventually joined. That church just happened to be led by Darian's father. A few months later in 2022, Darian stood up one Sunday and made an announcement about outreach efforts. She captured his attention. Demetrice went up to her after church a couple Sundays after that and asked her to coffee to discuss outreach projects the church could do. Darian jokes that he "interrogated her with a million questions". A couple of unofficial coffee "dates" at Red Cat led to Demetrice asking her on a real date. (PS- they never quite got to the topic of church projects on those coffee chats). On their first official date, they spent 4 hours at Jeni's ice cream one Friday afternoon talking about all the things in the world, and he asked her to go on another date the next day, where they spent 3 more hours talking. Two years later, Demetrice proposed to Darian while they were on their regular Sunday evening walk around her neighborhood. In the presence of their two dogs, Sza & Poppy, Darian said yes! The rest is history♡