As Cody attended the University of Northern Iowa, he made friends and became roommates with Michael's older brother, Drew. Cody would frequent many of the DeSotel events such as birthday parties, father's day lunches, and other family gatherings as a bonus attendee. Michael would often hang out with her brother at their apartment playing video games, eating $5 Pizza, and doting on their cats when she was free. Before they knew it, Michael and Cody were cleaning the guys' shared apartment together and talking for hours about religion, music, and cats. They became inseperable. Since then, they've been together eight years, had three cats, three apartments, one house, four towns, and legally married for one year. This celebration is to commemorate those years together and to share their vows for the first time.