Brian and Melissa both grew up in Chesterfield no further than a ten-minute drive from each other’s houses. Attending different Parkway schools, it wasn’t until they both attended the University of Missouri that their paths would cross for the first time. Melissa caught Brian’s eye the first time they met. It was during a snowstorm around their junior year of college. As Melissa’s red Mitsubishi Outlander slid helplessly down a hill in front of her apartment during a snowstorm. He and his friends leaped into action and stopped her from crashing into another car. Not knowing this would be the first encounter with the person they would spend the rest of their lives with, the two continued on with their pursuits in a Bachelor of Civil Engineering, and a Bachelor’s in Nursing. It wouldn’t be for a couple of years, after that encounter, that the timing would conveniently “bought an extra beer” at Ballpark Village and gave it to Melissa to strike up a conversation, which would end up being the start of their relationship. It didn’t take long for them both to realize they were meant for each other. To this day Brian still thinks that was one of the smoothest moves ever done. Flash forward seven years and both have graduated from Mizzou, Brian continues his career at L. Keeley Construction and Melissa has graduated with a doctorate and is a CRNA for Metro-West Anesthesia. They bought a house in St. Louis, and Brian bought a dog without really speaking to Melissa about it first (She now calls this her dog). In March of 2021, Brian brought Melissa to Forest Park, asked Melissa to spend the rest her life with him.