WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!

Our first "introduction" was sometime in 2011 when Alec added me on Facebook, thinking I was someone else that he met at a music event the weekend before. Fast forward to the fall of 2015 at NDSU when we had Philosophy 215 together. We always sat near each other (unassigned assigned seats, ya know), but didn't exchange one word the entire semester. Fast forward, again, to the summer of 2016. I was at Marcus Theaters with the Kensok gals seeing Finding Dory, and my phone lit up in the middle of the movie. It was Alec requesting to follow me on Instagram. It didn't take him long to message me and ask for my number. We started texting, and went on our first date on July 5, 2016. He picked me up at my house and we got Dairy Queen blizzards and ate them in the park. Little did I know I was having the first of many ice cream dates with my future husband.

I won't tell the story about how I thought I added Erin on Facebook in 2011 thinking it was her cute cousin. Let's start at the real beginning. It's fall semester of sophomore year at NDSU, and I'm sitting behind this absolute TEN in "Contemporary Moral Issues" on the daily. The only contemporary moral issue here is that I don't have this goddess's phone number. But woe is me, I'm mistakenly pursuing other fruitless flings. Fast forward to summer of 2016 and you'll never guess what happens (unless you read "her story" first...). This absolute vixen comes across my "People You May Know" on Instagram. Though, it should say "Smoke Show You May Know." But I diGRESS. I immediately follow her profile and slide into her DMs faster than a fried egg off of a Ninja Foodi NeverStick Premium Hard-Anodized 12-Inch Fry Pan C30030. After some persistent textual engineering, I convince this spectacle of a woman to go on a date. And now here we are five years later, and all I can think is... "Thank you, Mark Zuckerburg."

It was Alec's senior concert with the UNC Clef Hangers in April 2019. The hours leading up to the concert were high stress. Our parents' flights were delayed due to a massive blizzard in North Dakota (typical). I picked my mom and sister up at the airport roughly an hour before the concert, and we made it to our seats just in time *insert sigh of relief here*. As far as I knew, Alec was singing Versace on the Floor by Bruno Mars as his senior solo, and the concert program confirmed that. Fast forward to the end of the show, and he lets the audience know that wasn't the song he was going to sing. Long story short, Al sang Why Wait by Rascal Flatts and brought me up on stage and proposed. Besides the nerves, and shock, I managed to nod my head "yes!" and it was the best night of my life. See the video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nutLJl-hiT4