Well well well... how we met you might ask well let's go back to 2009 both Lance and Marissa were seniors in high school heading off to college in a few short months and Teen Conference for Jack n Jill was coming up. Our senior year for the Teen Conference dance TRADITIONALLY we would line up in height order for both boys and girls, dance a waltz with your partner and announce where you'd be going to college. So naturally when the choreographer announced this year would be DIFFERENT and everyone could just choose whomever of course all the tallest guys disappeared. So immediately Kara & I found ourselves talking to the 5'2 choreographer who just had no sense LOL we explained that we needed tall men and we refused to dance with guys who were 5'6 when in heels we were about 6'2... Well after a few short stressful moments later the choreographer showed up with Lance in one arm, immediately I chose Lance we introduced ourselves and figured out we were both from Maryland but had never ever crossed paths before. So after trying to get to know one another for all of 24 hours we did our waltz, announced he'd be going to North Carolina A&T and I would be going to Spelman then after a few photo opps we went our separate ways.. (Check out the 13 year old photo below).... Fast forward 8 years later while Lance was working in Cincinnati, Ohio and Marissa was in her first year of her MPH program at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.... Lance slide into her DMs.... As they began to reconnect Lance had to remind Marissa where they had met back in Jack n Jill. Shortly after chatting and catching up Lance visited Marissa in Atlanta, their first date was at Marissa's favorite good ol' Chik-fil-A, then the rest was history... Fast forward now almost 6 years later, Lance and Marissa have been inseparable... From moving back to MD and buying their first apartment together, going on several international trips, Lance getting Marissa her dream Corgi puppy who she named Pumpenickel or Pump for short, and buying a Home together... Lance FINALLY asked Marissa to marry him on her golden 31st birthday beachside in Cancun, Mexico it was absolutely breathtaking surrounded by close friends. Check out our Gallery section to see our love story over the years. We are so excited for you to be apart of our continued love story and can't wait to celebrate together!