Taylor and Lexi met the old fashioned way...a college pregame. Taylor was going to school at Slippery Rock University while Lexi was visiting some high school friends with Brittany Jordan (peep that Wedding Party page!). If you've never played the drinking game "Ride the Bus", you're missing out on a ~✨magical✨~ (aka messy and loud) combination of luck and logic. A few rounds of the game and one very embarrassing fall down a hill later, the rest is history.

They were on vacation with Lexi’s sister and her family in Ocean Isle, NC. Taylor asked if Lexi wanted to take a walk on the beach after dinner with him (which should have been a dead giveaway - Taylor's more of a "sit back and relax after stuffing yourself" kind of guy, despite Lexi pleading every vacation). Just before they were ready to head back, he popped the question on the empty beach at sunset. The original plan was to not say anything to anyone back at the house and wait for someone to notice the new bling, Lexi is WAY too impatient for that. Lexi asked her sister Claressa (again, peep the Wedding Party page!) if she wanted to go take some pictures at the beach because “the sunset was so pretty”, gesturing with her left hand. When Claressa realized there was a RING in front of her face, she screamed so loud that Lexi’s brother-in-law Colin (ahem, Wedding Party page again) thought someone needed to go to the hospital. Luckily, the only emergency that night was the need for champagne!