death of a bachelor

They were first introduced as classmates in 3rd grade at Pine Bend Elementary in 2000 and ended up graduating together at Simley Senior High in 2010. While they were not super close friends, they still knew each other and shared a similar group of friends. After high school Alex enlisted into the Army that brought him to places across the world, while Raelyn stayed home and started college and working. After Alex left the army he came home and as luck would have it, would end up crossing paths with Raelyn again. On October 10th, Alex's friend was home for a couple weeks and stayed with Alex while wanting to meet with some old friends. One of the friends he just happened to want to see was Raelyn and he asked Alex to tag along with him. They all met up at Cedarvale Bowling Alley and that's where Raelyn and Alex rekindled a very old friendship and ended up staying up that entire night talking and reconnecting. It was kismet from there. Raelyn asked Alex on their first date to Zombie Pub Crawl on October 15th and after a couple of dates Alex went to ask Raelyn to be his girlfriend on December 8th, 2016 and later to be his wife on October 22nd, 2021. Although having a drastically different taste in music, they were able to agree on one band they both liked, a band called The Maine whom their 'song' is by. The Maine recently released a song with lyrics that go, "I see you when I close my eyes. I see you like I did that night. Now underneath the hi-lo lights, I see you there. And I said, 'When I'm with you well it's just like it's the first time'" . Those lyrics seemed so fitting to their relationship and now, they plan to be wed on the date that the title of that song; April 7th.