While visiting friends at college, Nicole met Chance among a sea of new faces. Drawn together like magnets, Nicole visited several more times that autumn and Chance always happened to be there to greet her. Eventually, the attraction between them simply became too strong to ignore, and the rest is history.

Traveling together across Europe with their friends, Chance secretly carried the ring in his pocket for 10 days waiting for the perfect spot to propose. Once they reached Venice, Italy, it was clear that this was the place. Their friends went ahead to make sure they had a gorgeous view, and she emphatically said YES atop the beautiful Rialto Bridge at sunset.