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March 27, 2022
Santa Ana, CA

Adriana & James

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James

Donald

and

Adriana

Schoenke

March 27, 2022

Santa Ana, CA

How They Met

Adriana and Jimmy met on October 21st, 2016 at the famously romantic establishment, The Longboard. Their mutual friend Taylor, asked Adriana to get a drink and normally Adriana would have declined due to her natural homebody tendencies, but she already had makeup on from an earlier engagement and thought “Why not?”. A group of Taylor’s co workers coerced Taylor and Adriana to join them at a local bar to play pool. At this point Adriana and Jimmy hit it off. They discussed important topics like “Which consistency of a chocolate chip cookie is superior” & arguing over who was responsible for Daisy and Gatsby not ending up together. (Jimmy’s staunch answer is Nick) The night came to an end without Jimmy asking Adriana out on a date, but not to worry! The plan was for everyone to meet up for drinks the next night and that's when Jimmy planned he would get his opportunity to ask Adriana out after she said “Yeah I’ll be there!”. Or so he thought. But of course, Adriana had no intention to attend ANOTHER social outing! Two nights in a row? Yeah right. As the second night continued with Adriana no where to be found, Jimmy began to stress. The group texted Adriana and she responded that she was in for the night. After much convincing, Adriana caved and eventually made her way to meet up with everyone. When she approached the group, Jimmy played it very cool....& by very cool I mean he blurted out "What's your number?" And the rest is history.

How He Proposed

After Four and a half years together Jimmy needed help to surprise Adriana so he called in the big guns, Taylor Norris. Adriana received a call from Taylor to pick up desserts to bring to a party hosted by the Norris Family later that evening. As they arrived closer to the destination, Adriana noticed Jimmy making wrong turns which as you can imagine led to a bit of disagreements such as: Adriana:“No it said to turn left on the last street!” Jimmy: “It’s okay I know a shortcut, this way is faster” Adriana: “I’m looking at Google Maps, theres literally not a shortcut, we’re coming to a dead end..?! Make a u turn.” Jimmy: “No no its, fine I promise” This continued for another 10 minutes or so and after Jimmy convinced Adriana to get out of the car, they stumbled upon a beautifully displayed picnic. Boy gets down on one knee, girl says “yeah!” (Direct quote) and Adriana became okay with the fact that there was never any dessert. (See Photos tab for pictures of the picnic&engagement)

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