In early 2011 Mitch and Tove had just graduated high school and were in the middle of their freshman year of college (at separate schools). On one very, very lucky night in Grand Prairie, Texas, both of their futures would slowly but surely become intertwined. More on that in a moment... Tove grew up in a suburb of Dallas and was attending a local college for her undergraduate degree at the time. When she wasn’t in school, she was working around the clock as a server to pay for tuition. Mitch was raised in Tyler, Texas (about 2 hours east of Dallas), but was attending his first year of college at DBU, which happened to be nearby Tove’s stomping grounds. On the very, very lucky night - Mitch and group of buddies went out for dinner, but little did Mitch & Tove know that evening; they were both about to meet their soulmate. As Mitch and his buddies were sat at a table, a little Norwegian angel approached to take their orders. As she reached the table she sat down in the empty booth seat right next to Mitch and proceeded to introduce herself as Tove; reiterating the pronunciation as “Toe-Vae”. After she had taken the drink orders and left the table, Mitch proceeded to pick his jaw up from the floor. He regained his composure and looked around the table where his friends encouragingly teased that there’s no way Mitch could get her number. As fate would have it, Mitch & Tove ended up exchanging numbers that night. Unfortunately, Mitch and Tove were both very young and easily distracted at the time so they only managed to go on one date that year. After the date they both added each other on just about all of the social media outlets and remained good friends for the following SIX YEARS.

Tove was finishing her degree at the University of Houston and Mitch was working in Dallas. During the Christmas break Tove had planned to visit family and friends in Dallas and remembered her good friend Mitch. She messaged him about meeting up while she was in town so they met up for Dinner. Once they met that night – it was clear that there was a romantic spark that neither of them could ignore. Almost 2 years later, Mitch asked Tove to marry him while on Christmas vacation in Lillehammer, Norway.