10.11.2024

HIS VERSION: Liz and I met on a walk home in college one random weekend. She asked if I could walk with her the rest of the way to her apartment so she wasn't alone. We immediately hit it off and were laughing and flirting the entire time. I messaged her on Facebook the next day to give my number, and the rest is history. HER VERSION: Jim and I met in 2016, down at the Watterson streets of ISU. I approached him asking if we could walk together since we were going in the same direction. Instant connection, we were talking to each other as if we had known each other for decades. We reached my elevator and I thanked him for the walk. We didn't exchange anything besides our first names. A day later I got a Facebook message from Jim, 8 years later we're getting married!

HIS VERSION: I told Liz we were going to a brunch for someone's birthday party at Theater on the Lake off Fullerton Ave. When we got there the restaurant clearly looked closed and no one was in there, so I said "Maybe we're early", and told her to walk with me towards the water to look at the waves and shoreline. We got to the concrete steps and I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me. HER VERSION: Jim told me we were going to Six Flags in the cold of March for a friend’s birthday. I believed him not realizing that Six Flags doesn’t open until late April. A few weeks before the birthday party, he said it got switched to brunch at Theater on the Lake. The day of he kept pushing back the arrival time, and all I could think of was what food I would eat, not an engagement opportunity. Our Uber gets to the ramp intersection and the driver mentions it looks closed. Jim mentions we’re probably early and that he wanted to see the shoreline on the windiest day ever. I cave in as we fight the wind walking towards the shoreline and then he starts laughing as he gets down on one knee and proposes.