Dustin and Chandler met through mutual friends during his deployment in Iraq. They continued to talk off and on during his deployment and finally met in person in May of 2022 after many Facetimes and messages throughout the years. They met face to face in Outer Banks alongside their good friends James, Katie, Austin, and Brooke. After that things went full speed with moving to Virginia, then Virginia to Ohio, starting new careers, and welcoming their baby girl Emma Grace into this world.
Dustin and Chandler went on vacation with Chandler's family to Hawaii where the whole time Dustin and her family had a plan for Dustin to propose during the trip. Chandler's family kept it a secret and on July 11th they got all dressed up telling Chandler they wanted to do family pictures, and while they were taking pictures of the couple Dustin got on one knee, and without any question Chandler said yes!