Believe it or not, our story doesn't begin with one of these cute first meet ups like you see in the movies. Ours was much simpler than that. We first met through a mutual friend, who had been raving about Ivan to me for weeks prior. Randomly one night in the summer of 2019, Randi decided it was time for us to finally meet up. Before I knew it, I was squished into a car with Ivan and some of his friends to head towards a friend's house. If you know me, I'm a little shy at first, so this was my absolute worst nightmare come true. But we still hit it off and quickly became inseparable. Many dates followed, and after only a month we were officially dating.

As time passed, we soon came to realized we were truly made for each other. We wanted to start our own life together. So, by the end of 2020 we had officially moved in together. Once we started living together, we somehow became even closer than before.

Then just when things started to settle into place, we went on what I thought was just a holiday vacation to visit Ivan's family in Las Vagas. But little did I know, it would be where we got engaged. Ivan was insistent that we take a romantic gondola ride on the outside of our hotel. Then, just as we were going under the "Tunnel of Love", he proposed. And now here we are!