Our love story begins in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2016 during both of our freshman years at Western Michigan University. Zach was playing on the baseball team and I was on the volleyball team. Because we were both on sports team, we stayed in the same dorms and attended the same parties and had crossed paths a few times. We officially met at a party during the first semester. We immediately hit it off and began dating shortly after we met.


One of my favorite memories of Zach happened just a few weeks into our relationship. School was out for the holidays and I had a flight home. Unfortunately, my flight was cancelled due to a horrible snow storm that hit. Zach had already driven the hour and a half back to his home and I had no where to go due to the dorms being closed. Zach offered to drive through the storm to come pick me up and take me to a new flight the next day. It took him nearly twice as long to get back through the storm because he was going about 20mph the whole time. All this for a girl he had just met a few months prior.


Since our relationship began, Zach and I have been through many major milestones with each other. We were with each other through our athletic careers and college graduations with a nice global pandemic to shake everything up. We struggled through our first jobs out of college and have moved onto different jobs since. We’ve celebrated family members’ weddings and welcomed new nieces into the family. Now the next stop in our love story is our wedding!