Our best friends convinced each of us to get on the dating app "Bumble" in January of 2023. The app requires the girls to message the guys first - when I saw that he also taught kindergarten as a Sunday School teacher, I decided to go for it (plus he was kinda cute;)! He asked me to our first date at Starbucks and we talked until they closed... then we met for ice cream, lunch, a Target Adventure, and a walk at Rock Cut park over the next several days that lead us to dating for 11 months prior to our engagement. Alex proposed at Rock Cut park to recreate one of our first dates!