Joey and Brianna first met at an old landscaping company they both used to work for and even from that initial moment, there was a spark for Brianna when it came to Joey. He was handsome, hard-working, funny, and so incredibly shy. Brianna, admittedly, was smitten. Totally, head over heels for this man, and Brianna pursued him vigorously, even though it took quite a while for Joey to admit that he shared the same sentiment. Slowly, as Joey began to let down his walls, Brianna fell harder, and that spark only grew between them. In fact, a funny story that Joey and Brianna like to reminisce on is that one night before they even started dating when Brianna was a little more than tipsy, Brianna had told Joey she loved him, and she meant every single word. Who knew how rapidly their love would flourish? As their love grew, they began finding out so much about each other, including the fact that several times their stories had overlapped, yet they had still managed to miss each other. Joey attended a high school where several of his friends, knew stories or people that attended Brianna's high school, and they found out with each retelling how close, and how entangled their lives truly were even when they weren't together. As their bond grew stronger, Joey and Brianna began dating and they learned things about each other. For Brianna, she learned about Joey's undeniable patience, his unconditional love for animals (especially their furbaby Oakley), his radical sense of humor, his innate ability to make Brianna laugh, and the way his presence always seemed to make Brianna feel grounded and beyond the clouds at the same time. For Joey, he learned about Brianna's hard-working character, her unquestioning loyalty, her deep-rooted love and passion for animals and plants, her incredible ambition, her dorky sense of humor, and her immense beauty, inside and out. Since then, Joey and Brianna have blossomed into so much more than just a couple. Together, Joey and Brianna are not only best friends, lovers, soulmates, partners in crime, and parents to multiple, beautiful, furbabies, they are ultimately, a family. Together, they are both beyond excited to share not only their lives but, ultimately, their hearts with each other on September 8th. #lovingalloyd