Janessa and Curtis met across the bar of the Thunderbird Tavern in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood in October 2014. Her tending bar. Him drinking. The two quickly fell in love and shared their first kiss a block away where Curtis would walk Janessa to her evening bus. On Christmas Eve 2020, under the guise of simply recreating that first kiss, Curtis and Janessa returned to that bus stop. There, he dropped to one knee, in worship of the woman he loved, took her hand, and asked her to be his wife.