Jade and Eva met their first week of freshman year while attending an ECU Honors College event. They bonded over bombing their first college tests and their love of movies. By the middle of sophomore year they began to hangout more and on February 13th 2012 Eva baked Jade a batch of chocolate cupcakes stuffed with Reese’s cups inside which Jade just could not resist and asked Eva to be his girlfriend. The rest of their years at ECU were filled with various movie dates, parties, and caring for their puppy, Sampson! In August 2014 Jade and Eva began a long distance relationship while Jade completed his Masters degree at WCU. For 2 years they drove 4-6 hours every other week to see each other until they finally moved in together in June 2016. They have been adulting in Raleigh ever since.

On May 6th 2018 (Eva’s Birthday) Jade took Eva out for birthday dinner to Joanne Trattoria in the Upper Westside of NYC. They had been in NYC all weekend celebrating her birthday but this was the final night of the trip. Eva is obsessed with Lady Gaga and Jade saw it fitting to take her to dinner at the restaurant owned by Lady Gaga’s parents. After a lovely dinner Eva asked the waitress to take a picture of them (#birthdaypic) and that is when Jade got down on one knee and popped the question! Which she replied with “Are you serious?! Are you serious?! YES!!!”. Jade swears that Eva teared up more when she found out they were going to Joanne Trattoria than when he actually popped the question. Which may or may not be true....