We met slinging drinks in Laguna Beach, California back in 2012. One night Jerad came in on my shift at the bar and said, "You should give me your number so I can take you to dinner." We dated for a couple of months after that but the timing wasn't right. Over the next several years I would swing by the White House and demand a shot of Don Julio paired with a kiss and promptly leave. Jerad always obliged me in those requests, and every time I turned to leave, I would look back at him with a happiness in my heart. After I moved away to New York for graduate school then returned back home to California, Jerad asked me to go on a camping trip as friends up in Santa Barbara. That camping trip affirmed to me what I had known to be true all of those years...Jerad was kind, strong, fun, and caring, and I thought to myself, "I need to marry this man." We've been together ever since.

We had just arrived to the Baan Krating resort in Phuket, Thailand, and we said to each other, "This is the most beautiful place we have ever been!" We were surrounded by a jungle beach paradise, and the only sounds were the sounds of the animals and the ocean waves crashing. On our second night there, Jerad took me down to the most beautiful beach cove at sunset. As we got down to the bottom of the cove, Jerad took off running, "I'll be right back!" he yelled. I was pretty confused but figured he had a good reason for leaving me at the beach by myself. When he got back, he said that he had left our room key in the door. Then he put his arm around me and started talking about the most random things while walking me around in circles. I kept thinking, "What is he talking about right now? He is being so weird!" Then all of a sudden, I heard a camera flash, when I looked toward the direction of the camera sound, I saw a man standing there with our camera taking pictures of us. I turned to look back at Jerad, he was down on one knee, and he said, "Baby, you are the most beautiful woman in the world, and we are in the most beautiful place in the world, will you marry me?" I cried and said, "Yes!" Then we kissed, hugged, and laughed through the happiest tears.