IT WAS ALWAYS YOU.

RaeAnna and Luke met in microeconomics their second semester of freshmen year at UNI in Cedar Falls, IA. Throughout the semester the two became study partners and fast acquaintances. However, it wasn’t until a year later that the couple would go on their first date.

The date started with Luke picking RaeAnna up at her grandma Snooky’s house in Waterloo. The two had planned to see the movie, The Lone Survivor, and wanted to get dinner beforehand. Luke had never been to Olive Garden, and being that it is RaeAnna’s favorite restaurant, she insisted that he needed to try it, so they went there. They enjoyed dinner where Luke broke a bread stick in half to make the date 'official'. STORY TIME: About a week before this, the two of them had lunch together after class in the Maucker Union. They bought a container of bread sticks that only came with three to a pack. Luke and RaeAnna each had one bread stick already, so there was one left when RaeAnna asked Luke if he wanted to split it he replied with, “If we split it, that means we are on a date. So, you can just have it.” As they were sitting in Olive Garden, RaeAnna looked up to find Luke with a split bread stick asking her to share it and make it an official date. 🥖🍝😍 They finished their date off with tears and hand holding during The Lone Survivor. The next day RaeAnna went over to Luke’s house to work on a school project. She met his parents, they laughed harder that day than they had ever laughed before and the rest is history. ❤️