We first crossed paths in high school, both serving in leadership roles in Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) during our junior year. Back then, we didn’t interact much, and honestly, we didn’t think too much about each other. Fast forward a few years—during Nguyet Nhi’s summer internship in 2023, Leyton reached out and asked her on a date. On a whim, she said yes, not expecting much. Two years later… here we are, ready to say “I do.”

The summer of 2023 brought an unexpected twist in their story. Leyton made the trip to Little Rock, Arkansas, to visit Nguyet Nhi during her engineering internship and whisked her away on their very first date—at none other than Texas Roadhouse (yes, there were rolls involved). A few weeks later, on August 22, 2023, they made it official. At the time, Leyton was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, studying American Politics, and Nguyet Nhi was deep in her Mechanical Engineering studies at the University of Arkansas. Most of their years together were spent long-distance, seeing each other only during school breaks. But every single day, without fail, Leyton would FaceTime Nguyet Nhi—proving that while the miles between them were many, their love never missed a beat. Turns out, distance really does make the heart grow fonder.

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