After being together for 10 years, it is hard to fit our entire story into a few paragraphs. We started dating on December 2nd, 2011 during our freshman year of high school. Since then, we have been to 3 homecomings, 2 proms, 5 semi-formals, 5 formals, countless date nights, several horror conventions, and much more. We persevered through attending separate colleges (she went to Monmouth and he went to Beloit) and survived the COVID19 pandemic.
During the summer of 2019, Rachel and RIley were planning a get a way to relax from countless hours of work. They originally wanted to go to Chicago for Rachel's birthday; however, she had to work causing the trip to be postponed. On September 28th, they were able to take their trip away. Riley planned the perfect day in Chicago-we started at the architecture boat tour brunch, went to the Shedd Aquarium, roamed downtown, and ended with a night time carriage ride where Riley got down on 1 knee (quite hard in a carriage). Rachel said yes, through happy tears and they celebrated with dinner and champagne.