We always knew of each other and would say hi in passing. Preston is in my fathers hunting club and would shoot bows at our house. One Halloween we ended up being at the same party and were beer pong partners. We talked all night and a couple weeks later we started dating. Since then we knew it was for forever.

One afternoon Preston took me for a drive and we went to a small private airport. His family friend had an airplane and we flew over the Binghamton area. During our flight, we flew over my family's horse farm and hunting land. Preston pointed down and in a large field on the property he wrote, Mallory will you marry me? I looked back at him as he was holding a ring, and I of course said yes! Afterwards we drove back to the field and celebrated with a bottle of champagne with our family.