When Kendall and Riley look back to their first date almost four years ago, it’s hard for either of them to imagine that there was ever a time that they were not in each other’s lives. What’s even more unbelievable, is that the love that these two share, would not have been possible without a dating app . . . Bumble!

When people ask, it always seems to be an odd way to have met, but if you consider the state of the world in the year or so before their first date, it makes total sense. Having spent almost a year living in the post Covid world, Kendall and Riley, by chance both decided to give a dating app a shot. After all, neither of them figured that they would find “the one” on a zoom lecture. So as the saying goes, fortune favors the bold, and in a world full of uncertainty, Kendall and Riley found something they could rely on forever.

However, things were far from certain in the beginning. Riley and Kendall met only a few weeks before the end of the Spring 2021 semester, and that meant that Kendall only had a few weeks left in College Station. Even though things felt different about this guy, Kendall was reluctant to get her hopes up only to be forgotten over the summer. Little did she know that Riley had fallen so head over heels in love with her, that he had already started planning out how he would scrape the money up for a ring in a few years.

After a few short weeks, the time came for Kendall to go home, so Riley and her friend Neha helped her pack up her dorm and later that afternoon Kendall was headed for Lubbock wondering whether she’d ever see this boy again. But she didn’t have to wonder for too long. In the middle of June, the Graham family took a weekend trip to their lake house at Possum Kingdom and Riley found someone to cover is Friday morning shift on June 18th and drove from College Station to the lake to spend the day with Kendall and meet her family.

It was that evening at sunset, a little over a month after meeting, that Riley asked Kendall to be his “official” girlfriend. And two years later, at the same time and place, Riley got down on one knee. And with the ring that he managed to scrape up the money for, he asked Kendall to spend the rest of her life with him!

Since then, so many things have changed for them! Riley graduated in the Fall of 2023, and Kendall in the Spring of 2024. Now, they are living in Houston, where Riley is in law school, and Kendall is in optometry school, both at the University of Houston. But even though they are both in extremely challenging academic programs, they are incredibly blessed to be able to face those challenges together. From studying together for hours on end, to finding quicker and quicker (and cheaper!) dinner recipes, they always find a way to spend their valuable time together, and they wouldn’t trade it for the world!

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