Our love story started like any other in 2020, a swipe on bumble because we were all too scared for in person human interaction!

At the time, Libby was living in Bristol, TN for work and was home for Christmas. We matched and Libby used the wonderful opening line of "You look familiar". Smooth... Turns out we attended the same high school, Padua Franciscan, but had never met. Not only were we two years apart, but we also ran in VERY different circles. We constantly joke that God knew what he was doing because we don't think we would have liked each other very much back then.

So we planned a beautiful first date. We were going to go see Christmas lights at the zoo. How romantic! Well thanks COVID! Brent got sick (not COVID but still) so we ended up having to cancel. Libby went back to Bristol and we didn't get to actually meet.

We then took the next four months to get to know each other via text (because obviously phone calls were too intimidating at that point). It was PAINFUL considering we both are the absolute worst texters known to man!

Finally, Libby came home in April for Easter and we actually got to have a first date! We met at Winking Lizard and sat at the bar talking all night (mostly about wrestling of course!). We had a wonderful night and Brent kissed Libby goodbye in the Winking Lizard parking lot like a true gentleman.

(Anyone want to guess who planned the first date option back in December vs the one in April??)

Libby then headed back to Bristol but we continued to get to know each other despite the distance (sometimes even on the phone now! WOW! What an improvement!).

After the school year ended, she took a job in Erie, PA but spent the whole summer back at home. We soaked up as much time together as humanly possible! Even once Libby moved to Erie, we spent a lot of time driving back and forth or even meeting in the middle. It was a LONG year and a half with lots of miles on I-90.

But FINALLY in January of 2022 Libby accepted a job at John Carroll and was able to move back home and we could be together! She moved into the house we currently live in in April and Brent followed shortly after in July.

That year was honestly pretty uneventful. We did mostly normal couple stuff. It felt anticlimactic considering everything prior was so much more difficult. But we enjoyed being able to just be together and fall more in love. It was a wonderful year filled with lots of hiking, several trips, a lot of breweries, some baseball games, and many MANY trips to Winking Lizard.

Then, on June 30, 2024, we took a trip back to Erie to go to a baseball game with some of Libby's friends. On the drive back Brent suggested we stop at a park in Perry (pretty close to halfway home) to watch the sunset. We watched a beautiful sunset over Lake Erie and Brent got down on one knee and asked Libby to marry him. And then had to ask again because Libby was too happy and jumped right into kissing him that she didn't actually ever say yes. But other than that, the moment was absolutely PERFECT! Brent wanted to ask halfway between Erie and Cleveland where we spent a lot of our time early in our relationship. It's a very special place in both of our hearts.

And now here we are! So excited to commit ourselves to each other forever in front of all of you! Thank you for supporting our love and we cannot wait to celebrate with all of you!