Zach and Jenny were attending different Bible study groups at North Coast Church and happened to meet during a combined game night. There was an undeniable spark during conversation. After getting paired in a cooperative game, Zach said, "We make a great team!" But was it simple from there? No. In fact, Jenny and Zach didn't meet again until several months later, when Jenny switched groups. The new group she chose happened to be meeting at Zach's house! Over the Bible study quarter, the spark was still there, and Zach and Jenny discovered they had many shared interests. Zach began making his romantic intentions more obvious. And Jenny...well, Jenny ignored everything. She was convinced Zach was just friendly and extroverted. Things didn't change until both Jenny and Zach were asked to become Bible study group leaders together. When they talked one-on-one about leading the group, Jenny had to admit Zach was right: "We make a great team!" A month later, the Bible study group met to go rollerblading. On the sidelines of the rink, Zach—egged on by a friend—jokingly asked Jenny to marry him. Jenny laughed it off; but she had a shocking realization. Her instinctive answer would have been yes!

Zach invited Jenny to play pickleball and "get to know each other as leaders." They played for a while, had lunch, and even went out for a boat ride. It was a date! Almost. Kind of. Neither one of them labeled it. At this point, two things happened. Jenny decided she wanted to pursue the relationship, but that she would take it slowly. At the same time, Zach decided Jenny wasn't interested in anything beyond friendship, so he began to move on. A month and a half passed with no communication. In the silence, Jenny realized more than ever that she liked Zach—a lot. So after some intense prayer, she asked him if he would go with her on a hike to her local waterfall. Never mind that she hadn't gone on that particular hike in years...and didn't remember what the waterfall even looked like. Zach was surprised that she reached out, but he said yes. The hike went great. The weather was beautiful, conversation was easy, and the waterfall? It was much larger than Jenny remembered! Zach enjoyed it so much that he climbed over the steep rocks and jumped into the water, where he joined several other swimmers. After the hike, they went to lunch. Jenny asked Zach the question she had been waiting to ask the whole time: "Was the pickleball thing a date, or are we just friends?" And the answer ended up being: "It was a date!" After they revisited the events of the last few months, they laughed over all the miscommunications. Zach finally smiled and said, "So...we'll keep hanging out and see what happens from there?" Jenny nodded. "Sounds good to me." "Well, that settles it," Zach said. "I guess we're getting married." Jenny laughed. She had a feeling he was absolutely right.

Zach proposed to Jenny during the annual Christmas boat parade on Lake San Marcos. He took her to a small island on the lake, where he asked her to marry him surrounded by twinkling lights.