Tim and Jess met the old fashioned way–the internet. A friend picked his profile out of the many with Tim’s answer to the question, “What do you like to do on a Friday night?” to which Tim answered, “go out to a bar with friends or watch Netflix with my dog,” and that quickly sealed the deal.

Early in their relationship, Tim had brought Jess to a Paint Nite, and they had gone again with friends a year later. Tim saw that they were sponsoring a Paint Nite at the restaurant they had been to on their first date, around the time he was planning to propose. He had corresponded with the event organizer, told her his plan to paint “willl you marry me?” on his canvas, and she was excited. He was really pushing Jess to attend that Paint Nite, but when she went to book the tickets, she told him, “That night got changed to Uncle Buck’s bar at Bass Pro Shop. Do we have to go to that?” Tim was furious, and brought Jess to their first date restaurant, to propose the old fashioned way. When they were seated in the back, there was a full house–at least two or three times as many patrons as there usually were. Tim suffered through the whole meal, snuck the ring to the Irish owner, who brought it out with dessert, and Tim got down on one knee in front of at least 50 people.