(Told mostly from the perspective of the lovely bride, Logan)

We met four and a half years ago (at time of writing August, 2025) at the magical place, John's Incredible Pizza. Ben was actually my team lead (how scandalous). My friend, who was another team lead, and him had got into an argument about something (not serious) and I was on the way to clock out. I ran into the two of them on my way out and Ben made a face at me (ahem, she made that face all the time and Ben was just finally reciprocating it cause it was a funny face). That was it, I was completely crushed, and I made it pretty obvious. My same friends ended up getting us together after we all went out for boba after a night shift.

We have spent the last 4 (by the time we are married it'll be 5) years happily learning more about each other and ourselves. We have been able to have several adventures, explore different parts of California, and visit Tennessee. We have been together through different jobs, different schools, and even different locations. We were long distance for a year and a half until we both graduated, from CSU Long Beach and UC Santa Cruz respectively. The classes were tough but the distance was even more so.

Then February 1st of 2025, Ben proposed to me while we were at Shaver Lake! We had a wonderful snow day with some of our friends and I had no idea it was coming. I actually took forever climbing up the hill to get to his proposal spot because of how deep the snow was and how I kept getting stuck in it. But it was worth the snow filled shoe, because it was the most magical moment!