Brandon and Emily met while working at the same company in 2013. Brandon was graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, while Emily was working through a temp agency after moving back to Austin from New York City. We went on our first date, at Upper Decks, a bar no longer in existence in Austin, to watch the Spurs/Heat final championship series on June 12, 2013. Emily, an avid Spurs fan, was disappointed by the Spurs loss but that was tempered by an exciting first date.

Brandon proposed at a German castle, near his parents' home on July 14, 2019 on their first trip to visit his family. Brandon wanted Emily to climb up to this old window of the castle, but there was a photographer taking pictures in the area and being stubborn, she argued that they should wait for her to finish. Little did Emily realize, this was the photographer Brandon hired to take pictures of the proposal. This was going to be where we wed in 2021 but the pandemic changed the plan and because of our love of National Parks, we couldn't have picked a better place than Estes Park, Gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park.