Although Casey and Chris both attended URI around the same time, that is surprisingly not where their story began. They actually met in March of 2016 on the side of the road at the Newport St. Patrick's day parade. The exact dialog is a little fuzzy due to many celebratory whiskeys that day, but Casey recalls asking Chris if her and her friends could share his spot on the sidewalk to watch the parade. Chris remembers Casey being very impressed with his Irish flag spray painted beard and asking to borrow his spray paint. Details aside, Casey and Chris became very close over the next few months while intertwining their friend groups, binge watching all 14 seasons of Supernatural, and frequenting the local beaches, restaurants, and bars around southern RI. Finally, after months of "fake dating" as Casey calls it, she took control and asked Chris to officially be her boyfriend through the infamous pizza box after one of her shifts at Pizzeria Regina. Over the next few years, Casey and Chris not only fell in love but also grew up together getting their first "grown-up" jobs, moving into an apartment in Providence, adopting their adorable cat Khaleesi, and eventually buying their first home in June of 2021. The day after closing on their home and right in the midst of move-in-day chaos, Chris proposed to Casey through (you guessed it!) a pizza box.