We met in high school when we were 16 years old. We first met in August 2011 at a student council retreat in Vernonia, OR. We secretly were crushing on each other for a few months & found excuses to talk to each other in student council & in the hallways of school. We both admitted later that we would purposefully walk longer routes to our classes just to pass each other so we could say hi. Through a mutual friend, we got each others phone numbers and Jackson asked me to be his homecoming date. I was a “princess” and he kissed me at the end of the night and we have been smitten ever since. Jackson asked me to be his girlfriend on 11/11/11. What a lucky date it ended up being!

We tried to take little trips every summer and loved planning vacations. We've traveled a lot together to Disneyland, San Diego, Las Vegas, Seattle, San Francisco, Washington DC, ect. In 2017 our annual summer vacation was going to take us on a cruise through the Mexican Riviera. To my surprise, Jackson planned his proposal in Cabo while we were at dinner. All would have gone to plan if my dress didn't pop a seam and call for an emergency wardrobe change. When he did ask me later that night, I was over the moon. We cannot wait to become husband & wife.