These high school sweethearts met at Crooms, an IT magnet school in Central Florida. They shared classes together and interacted occasionally. They even exchanged numbers for a school project, as friends do. One fateful day, he texted her after the last bell rang, "Have a great weekend!" They started chatting it up. His parents drove the two of them to see a movie with friends. A few months later, her parents invited both of them to walk around Mount Dora to see all of the Christmas lights. According to her parents: he was smitten, and she was clueless. He eventually asked her out in January 2014, and she became slightly less clueless... ...he proposed on Thanksgiving 2024, and the rest is history.