Not here for a long time, just a good time!

Alex and Leah met on Bumble (a dating website where girls get to make the first "move"). After cancelling on our scheduled first date due to a Christmas shopping emergency (on Amazon.com) Alex rescheduled for a week later to a local Japanese restaurant called "Booze Box". After some Japanese whiskey flights and hours of talking, Leah impressed Alex with her manual driving skills by driving him 2 blocks home and the night ended in our first kiss. Days later, Alex asked Leah to take a helicopter ride around the city of Chicago and although we're relatively sure its because a Groupon was about to expire, Leah was smitten. We soon started spending most weekends together and started to get to know each other's family and friends; before long we were referring to each other as girlfriend and boyfriend and the rest is history.

After convincing Leah to throw a summer bash for the charity organization (https://www.agreatergoodfoundation.org/) that Alex supports he invited several friends to town to jump in on the occasion. Friends from out of town had never been to Chicago so Alex planned a day of all things Chicago. We went on the Chicago Architecture Tour and Alex took Leah to the top of the Sear's Tower. At the top, Alex told Leah he had one more surprise. A cab drove us to the location of our second (and one of Leah's favorite) date - the helicopter launch pad. After 30 minutes of flight around the city, they landed and a photographer told us the pre-flight photo that we took didn't work, so needed another one (Leah's thinking: "does anyone actually buy these photos?") but obliges and takes another picture - that's when Alex got down on one knee and asked "Hey Ding-Dong, will you marry me?". Ding-Dong obviously said "YES!". When we arrived home, the charity party turned out to also be an engagement party and we celebrated the night away with family and friends from near and far - it was the sweetest engagement and a day we will hold near to our hearts forever.