SHORT VERSION... MACKENZIE AND SEBASTIAN MET THROUGH MUTUAL FRIENDS. LONG VERSION... IT ALL BEGAN ON A COLD FALL NIGHT IN MORRISTOWN NEW JERSEY. MACKENZIE WENT OUT FOR DRINKS WITH HER SISTER SYDNEY AND ONE OF HER BEST FRIENDS ZACH. THE THREE SAT OUTSIDE, ENJOYING EACH OTHER'S COMPANY WHEN SEBASTIAN WALKED BY ... WITH HIS DATE. AFTER GREETING EACH OTHER, SEBASTIAN DECIDED TO CONTINUE HIS DATE AT ANOTHER RESTAURANT. (SUSPICIOUS). WANTING TO NOT END THEIR NIGHT EARLY, SYDNEY LOOKED FOR ANOTHER RESTAURANT FOR THE THREE OF THEM TO GO TO NEXT, WHICH JUST SO HAPPENED TO BE THE ONE THAT SEBASTIAN AND HIS DATE DECIDED ON. SEBASTIAN DECIDED TO INVITE MACKENZIE, SYDNEY, AND ZACH OVER TO HIS APARTMENT FOR SOME FINAL DRINKS AND GAMES. (THANKFULLY, THE DATE WAS NOT THREATENED BY THIS IMPOSITION...YET). THE NEXT MORNING, SEBASTIAN HAD FOUND MACKENZIE'S MASK AT HIS APARTMENT (THANKS COVID?) AND THOUGHT THAT WAS A GREAT EXCUSE TO REACH OUT TO HER. AFTER A FEW TEXT EXCHANGES AND SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES, SEBASTIAN DECIDED TO ASK MACKENZIE OUT ON A GROUP DATE (WHICH WAS UNKNOWN TO MACKENZIE UNTIL A COUPLE HOURS INTO IT). THANKFULLY, MACKENZIE AND SEBASTIAN SHARED MUTUAL FRIENDS GEORGE BATISTA AND ASHLEY GRANATO, SO THE NIGHT WENT SMOOTHLY. SMILES WERE SHARED, FLIRTY TOUCHES WERE FREQUENT, AND LAUGHS ECHOED THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. AND NOT LONG AFTER THAT, MACKENZIE AND SEBASTIAN WERE INSEPARABLE, AND THAT'S WHERE THEIR LOVE STORY BEGAN. SEBASTIAN PROPOSED ON JUNE 18th 2022 SURROUNDED BY BOTH OF THEIR FAMILIES ON THE BEACHES OF CAPE MAY NEW JERSEY (MACKENZIE'S FAVORITE VACATION SPOT). MACKENZIE AND SEBASTIAN ARE EXCITED TO START THEIR LIVES TOGETHER WITH ALL OF YOU IN CELEBRATION OF THEIR LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, AND COMMITMENT TO ONE ANOTHER.