It all started on New Year’s Eve 2021. Ranee was visiting New York and ended up at a party where she met Mitchel. The timing wasn’t quite right—Ranee was single, Mitchel wasn’t—but they became acquaintances and went on group adventures throughout the year. In 2023, fate stepped in again at a friend’s wedding. This time, both single. They decided to go an a date before Ranee goes back to Florida. Neither of them knew it then, but that first date was the beginning of forever.