Emily and Brandon's story started around Thanksgiving 2020. After chatting over social media for a week, they hopped on a call and chatted for 4 hours. Their first date was the next day. Emily and Brandon's first date was exploring a national park, stopping at an Amish Buffet, and exploring Lake Logan in the infamous Hocking Hills region. Right away they both thought it felt so natural and FUN - neither of them stopped laughing the entire date. Soon after they started dating, they realized they were both Johnny Cash & June Carter fans. One of the most famous quotes of the late Johnny Cash came from an interview he did while on a world tour. He was asked to describe paradise, and he responded, "In the morning, with her, having coffee". One early morning in the fall of 2022, Emily and Brandon went to Alum Creek, a local lake near Brandon's apartment. They brought coffee and watched the sun come up over the lake. It was that morning that they both realized that it was in the morning, having coffee together that they felt like they were in their own version of paradise. The weekend of Emily's birthday last year, in the morning, having coffee with him by the lake, Brandon proposed as the sun came up over the lake they sat at that special morning a year prior.