Who would have imagined that Bumble would turn out to be the perfect matchmaker? Swiping right is how David and I crossed paths, but getting to that point wasn’t easy. Let’s be honest—dating apps are not for the faint of heart! I was done with the whole dating app process and had deleted the app altogether. One day, on a whim, I decided to redownload the Bumble app. Just a week later, I matched with David. Here’s the twist: I had set my distance preference to 25 miles, because more than that is too far to meet a stranger! To our surprise, we lived exactly 25 miles apart. Had it been just one mile further, we might have never met! I believe it was divine intervention that our paths crossed in the way they did, and at just the right time.

Deciding where to propose was almost as easy as deciding to propose in the first place. If anyone knows me, they know that I love going home to Belize and that my favorite place is at the top of El Castillo, the highest point at the Xunantunich Mayan site, so it made sense to me to ask my favorite person to marry me at my favorite spot. Hiding my intentions became easy when Dulce's sister and her family decided to tag along for a tour of Belize; it gave me a perfect reason to revisit a place Dulce and I had already seen on a previous trip. Once at the top, I popped the question, and well, I'm sure you can all guess what the answer was.