Brittney and Ryan met their freshman year at Baylor University. They were introduced by mutual friends at the annual Relay for Life event on campus. Ryan asked Brittney out to a party the following night. The nights after that they would walk around Baylor's campus for hours just talking. During one of the walks they stopped at a bench close to their residence hall. There Ryan asked Brittney to be his girlfriend.

Ryan tricked Brittney into taking a day trip down to Waco to "meet some friends" for the day. After breakfast at their favorite spot Ryan took Brittney to campus. They walked to the bench that Ryan had asked Brittney to be his girlfriend at many years earlier. Brittney was trying to clean off the bench when Ryan said "Can you just sit down?!" So Brittney sat down and Ryan dropped to one knee and asked Brittney to marry him.