While out celebrating his 21st birthday Austin went to the Bar Allison worked at. Though they had both taken an interest in each other it took about 3 hours for anything to be done about it. If it weren't for Austins friend. Austin wouldn't have had the courage to ask Allison out. His friend boldly walked up to Allison and told her that Austin has been watching her all night, to which Allison Replied "If he wants my number he needs to ask for it" 10 minutes later while cashing out a red faced Austin finally asked for Allison's number. Then later in the evening he and his friends came back to help her close the bar, and the rest is history.

September of 2018 Austin bought the first ring Allison had ever tried on. He said "When I saw her face light up when she put it on I knew it was the ring" This part was a surprise, Allison suspected nothing. Later that month however the not so sneaky Austin hid the ring in a not so secret place. Now she knew that it was going to happen but not when and not how. Allison took this as a sign to start dropping not so subtle hints about how she wanted to be proposed to. Austin took all of this into account and planned a day, the day of his company Christmas party. All was good until..... Allison found out that they were no longer going to the company Christmas party at which she correctly guessed that was the date he was going to propose. Annoyed Austin started the planning process over again. This time choosing a sooner date, November 17th 2018. Austin planned a whole weekend of events starting with a Friday evening stroll downtown across the blue bridge. Allison knowing that Austin doesn't willingly go downtown unless its important knew the proposal was coming, but she didn't know exactly where. Every time Austin slowed she'd stop and wait and he'd say "Nope, not yet" They crossed the blue bridge and moved onto a walking path and when they were about to reach the end Austin took a breath and started his speech; Which ended with him getting down on one knee (in the wet snow) and asking Allison to be his wife. Teary eyed she said YES! Despite it not being a surprise like he wanted it, it was still a perfect proposal filled with lots of heartfelt gestures.