Erin and Matt met at work. At least that's the short story. While on a recruiting trip down at Rolla, Matt was attending the career fair looking for a job after graduation and Erin was a recruiter for the company they both now work at. Erin thought Matt would be a good fit because he could easily chat with her and he stocked beer on the weekends as his college job for extra money. Once Matt came to the office and interviewed with the managers he was offered a job and accepted. Matt graduated in May and began working at EN Engineering. As fate would have it, he was placed in the same group as Erin and they sat next to each other. When Matt started most of the team was out of town for projects, as we often are now, and so Erin actually trained Matt. After a while they began to realize there was a deeper connection. Erin invited Matt to come to a birthday party in Lawrence for a friend of hers and they've been together ever since!

Everyone knows that Erin is very type-A. She hates surprises, and she had been waiting a while for Matt to propose. Matt had been saving up to buy Erin the ring she picked out and he'd been traveling for work a bit. Once Matt bought the ring, he called Erin's mom and asked for her blessing. Matt couldn't keep the secret much longer, and he wasn't sure Erin's mom would be able to either, so on a Monday night Erin came home from her workout at Orange Theory around 8:30pm. Erin cooked dinner, Matt lit some candles and poured some wine. Erin was surprised that Matt was going to drink wine, because he's more of a whiskey guy, but she thought perhaps he's trying something new. After dinner was over, Erin started to clear the dishes from the table, Matt stopped her and said, wait, I have a question for you, to which Erin responded, "ok, why are you being weird?". At this moment Erin thought, oh shit, he's doing this now, isn't he? Sure enough, Matt professed his love, got down on one knee and asked Erin to spend the rest of her life with him. She immediately said yes!