Isaiah and Jasmine met August of 2020. The world was in the middle of a pandemic. Masks were required and most businesses were closed. Isaiah and Jasmine both resorted to online dating through an app called Hinge. They matched profiles on August 4, 2020 and immediately started chatting nonstop. On August 7 they went on their first date, to a drive in movie theatre. Neither watched the movies shown, but talked the entire night. They enjoyed the first date so much, they went on another date the very next day. After that weekend, both Isaiah and Jasmine knew this relationship was different and they wanted to be in each others' lives long term.

We took a trip to the Outer Banks Labor Day weekend 2022. It was Jasmine’s 25th birthday weekend as well. We went on the trip to celebrate her birthday- she had no idea Isaiah planned to propose that weekend. On Saturday morning, September 3, Jasmine was driving to pick up some groceries for breakfast and she found this small beach access that would have the perfect view of the sunset. So she told Isaiah that she wanted to go there and watch the sunset that night and he agreed. We spent the day seeing lighthouses and swimming in the ocean. That night we agreed to watch the sunset and pick up take out for dinner. Jasmine decided to put on comfy clothes because she was tired from all the activities from the day. She just wanted to be comfortable. Isaiah kept asking “don’t you want to put on a dress? Dress up with me!” Jasmine gave Isaiah such a hard time and really did not want to change into a dress, but reluctantly did change (and is so glad she did now ha ha). Then Isaiah said he wanted her to open her birthday gift from him tonight at the beach. Her birthday was the next day so she again protested. She did not want to bring the gift to the beach and get it dirty. She wanted to open the gift later at the airbnb. But Isaiah insisted that it was a special gift and needed to be opened somewhere special. Jasmine was still completely clueless and reluctantly agreed to bring the wrapped present with them to the beach. They got there and found a cute picnic table to sit at and watched as the sun slowly started to inch closer to the water. Jasmine took photos and enjoyed the moment. She decided she had waited long enough and wanted to open her gift. It was a medium sized rectangular box. She unwrapped it and saw “James Allen” on the front of the box. She questioned it but opened it up and on the inside of the medium box was a small red jewelry box. She immediately got disappointed thinking it was a pair of earrings or a necklace (she is not really a big jewelry wearing girl). But as she opened the small red box, Isaiah dropped to one knee and proposed. Jasmine was so shocked that she froze and had to be prompted to respond, which she then yelled “yes!” The timing was perfect. The sun waited until after she said yes before kissing the ocean waves and disappearing into the night.