Brent and Ana met during their freshman year of high school in 2007. They tried dating a few times from freshman year of high school to sophomore year of college, but the timing never worked out! After they graduated from college, Ana reached out to Brent because she saw that he moved away from FL to Los Angeles for law school! This intrigued Ana! She initially reached out to him just as friends but things quickly started progressing; however, they were both super reluctant because they said they wouldn't do long distance -Ana was living in FL at the time. Ana's sister, Bianca, (and maid of honor!) has lived in Australia for the last 8 years. Ana and her mom had a trip planned to go see Bianca on November 10, 2015! Guess where their 8-hour layover would be?! Yup, you guessed it - Los Angeles! This was all such a (meant to be) coincidence! When they landed in LA, Brent picked Ana up from the airport and they spent the entire 8 hours together! Brent took Ana on a cute date to the Santa Monica Pier! They went on the ferris wheel right along the water and watched the most beautiful pink and purple sunset. There they had their 2nd first kiss! They both didn’t know where all of this was going at the time, but they knew it felt so right! Fast forward through 2+ years of long distance flying back and forth between LA and Florida to see each other, on January 13, 2018, Ana made the most exciting move of her life and moved across the country to Santa Monica, California to move in with Brent! This has been the best decision ever (minus leaving her family in Florida). If you ask anyone that knows Ana, they'll say she will attempt to (and may probably convince you) to move to California! Two months into the new move, Brent and Ana picked up their child - Walter - the cutest Old English Sheepdog puppy in the world. (@waltersheepdog on Instagram!!) They have now been living their best life together in California for the past 2-years and wouldn't change it for the world! 

I woke up on December 21, 2019 thinking it would be another great, normal day! Brent and I flew from California to New York to spend Christmas with our families! We woke up on that Saturday with a busy, fully-planned day! Brent was being extra lovey dovey but I didn't think much into this - mostly just "omg he is being extra cute today!" We had been walking a lot that day, so my dad told me that his knee was starting to hurt and that he was just going to head home and rest while Brent, my mom, and I go shopping! About an hour of shopping goes by and suddenly Brent (without giving us any notice at all) calls an Uber to go back home. Mind you, Brent never makes rushed decisions like this so I found this a little weird, but again didn't think too much into it because I was kind of tired too! My mom was being a very good actress supporting Brent in his decision to start heading home because she knew exactly what was going on - the two of them were in on it the whole time! When we arrived back to our apartment, Brent asked if I wanted to go to our building's rooftop quickly just to see the beautiful view - it had been a few years since we were last in NYC and we love the rooftop to our apartment. It was our first night in New York, so I said "definitely, it will probably be so pretty right now!" So we head upstairs together and I open the door to the rooftop. The first thing I see is this cute girl with a professional camera looking at the Chrysler building with her back turned to us. This seemed fishy, but I thought to myself "well there are a lot of renters in this building, a lot of photographers in New York, and I mean it is the Chrysler building - I would probably take a picture of it too!"

Then I looked the opposite way and I saw the cutest champagne set up with some greenery and a blanket....AND a taped arrow on the ground!! (LOL) THIS was the moment I knew it was happening!! The view of the sunset was absolutely breathtaking. Brent took me to the edge of the rooftop and looked me in the eyes, said some really sweet things about all of our years together, got on his knee, and asked "Will You Marry Me?" Of course, I said a big fat YES! It was everything I had dreamed of and more! My parents and my dog came to the rooftop and we all hugged each other! To my even bigger surprise, I learned that my dad went home not because of his knee but to meet my 2 best friends in our lobby to let them both into the building! They decorated the rooftop and the inside of our apartment and then after a few minutes had gone by they came running up the staircase towards me and I started immediately crying on the spot! My cheeks hurt so much from smiling that day (and they hurt just as much now just thinking about it)! It was so perfect.