Alison

  A few days into Ali's first semester at the University of Tampa, she met Jesse at a campus Greek Life event. A few weeks after that Ali and Jesse met again at a social held by her sorority and his fraternity. Somehow they came to the agreement that Jesse would be Ali's "bodyguard" and take care of anyone that wasn't being nice to her. In 2007, both graduated from the University of Tampa and went their separate ways, Ali to NYC to go to fashion design school and Jesse off to the Army. A few facebook messages back and forth in late 2008 sparked things up again and after Ali sent Jesse cookies overseas during Christmas that year, they started talking daily. In March 2009, they met up in Tampa on Jesse's R&R from deployment and figured out they both had crushes on each other since they met in 2004. They decided to try and make things work and they did! Jesse proposed January 24, 2010. When he went to New Jersey in December, he already had plans to propose. He spoke with Ali's parents and had set up to pick up a ring. He held onto the ring for a month before popping the question. The last Sunday in January, Jesse and Ali got ready to go to church when Jesse "forgot" his wallet in the apartment. Jesse went back inside, while Ali went out to the car. Upon returning to the apartment after church, Ali walked in to hear Brad Paisley "She's Everything" playing, candles lit and a bag of Cracker Jacks on the coffee table. Jesse had always teased Ali that when he proposed the ring would be from a Cracker Jacks box. Jesse got down on one knee and asked Ali to marry him.