Michelle and Alfonso met while on spring break in Panama City Beach, Florida in March 2014 while going to college at Salisbury University in Salisbury, MD. They went to Florida with their separate groups of friends, but knew people in common and their paths crossed during the trip. Back at Salisbury University, they kept hanging out for the rest of the semester, but Michelle graduated and moved back home to Connecticut shortly after. Alfonso spent the summer living in Ocean City, MD where Michelle visited him several times and then Alfonso visited Michelle in Connecticut. They went back and forth visiting each other for 2 years until Michelle decided to move to Maryland in 2016.