Justine was having her birthday at Revision Lounge in New York City. Ryan and his roommate Alex (Melecki) were at an upper west side bar crawl. Alex suggested they go all the way to alphabet city, to Revision Lounge. That's where they ran into Justine's coworkers, one of whom told Ryan - that's the birthday girl, go talk to her.

Justine & Ryan went on a vacation to visit their friends Alex (Kelly) & Sarah in Kenya. Justine, Ryan and Alex went to Uganda to go gorilla trekking. After the gorilla trek, Justine and Ryan were sitting on the balcony of their hotel room. As Justine went to go inside, Ryan grabbed her arm and got down on one knee and showed her a picture of a ring he had designed himself. Justine said "of course". Alex napped through the whole thing. Alex rebuttal: "I was resting after a hike where I had twisted my ankle on the equator in the Impenetrable Forest, and even though we planned the trip together, Ryan didn't tell me about this." - Alex Kelly