We met in the 8th grade when Jacob transferred to Bayside. We were in similar social circles during the end of middle school/beginning of high school. One day during October 2014, a mutual friend invited us and some other people out to see the movie "Ouija" where we ended up sitting next to each other. Within a week, we were dating. We ended up going off to separate colleges, with Jacob being at the University of Alabama, and ZuZu at Mississippi State University, only an hour and a half drive from each other. We made it a tradition to always attend the Alabama vs. Mississippi State football game each fall. On March 12, 2021, we took a walk through the Riverwalk in Tuscaloosa like we had done many times before, where Jacob proposed on the edge of the Black Warrior River.