Aaron and Jodie have known OF each other since 2012, when Jodie started her career at UW Health as a pharmacy technician and Aaron was her boss's boss (oops, haha!) But their romantic story started in Orlando, Florida during a pharmacy conference in December, 2017. Aaron and Jodie were at a karaoke bar with two separate groups and started talking and then Aaron proceeded to buy Jodie a generous amount of gin and tonics and the night was a blast! When they returned home to Madison, Wisconsin, they both attended one of their mutual colleagues retirement parties and the night turned into what is now considered their "first date" or the night their relationship started. From then on, they have pretty much been inseparable! And the rest as they say, is history!

Aaron proposed in the privacy of the bride and groom's home on Sunday, January 13th. Jodie was sitting on the couch, just chilling on the lazy Sunday and Aaron was pacing and checking work email, or so Jodie thought. Turns out he had the ring in his pocket and had been carrying it around for weeks. He came over to Jodie on the couch, said some very sweet, sputtering thing, told her how much he loved her and said "basically what I am trying to say is...will you marry me?!" Jodie of course accepted! It was a very tear filled proposal.