We first met in 2019 as neighbors at Michigan State. We quickly became friends after a football tailgating party. Once Covid hit and we were confined to our apartments, we began to spend more and more time together. When Ryan graduated in May of 2020 he moved back to Battle Creek while Emma stayed at MSU until she graduated in August of 2020. After graduation Emma moved back to her home town in West Bloomfield. Although, we could no longer see each other regularly we still tried to visit each other as much as we could. We finally made our relationship official on Halloween. We continued to visit each other on weekends but quickly realized we wanted to move in together. Emma made a life changing decision to move across the state. Shortly after we adopted our beautiful dog Ocean and began to build a life together until we happily got engaged in June of 2024.