Erik and Bailey met as neighbors in Wichita at the tail end of 2020, just before Bailey started nursing school and Erik had just come back from a deployment. They got to know each other over several months and started dating June 8th, 2021. A year later and they both had promised to eventually marry each other. January 2023, their family moved up to Overland Park. Less than two weeks later, the night before they both started their new jobs, Erik proposed and she said yes!