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THE COUPLE’S STORY:
HOW THEY MET

On November 23, 2012, Gabriella was Black Friday shopping with her brother and a couple friends at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, MD. Around 3am, she headed over to Abercrombie & Fitch to snap a pic with one of their handsome shirtless models.

On November 23, 2012, Lance was making some extra cash as a shirtless greeter for Abercrombie & Fitch at Montgomery Mall. Around 3am, after 4 hours of standing outside the store taking pictures with customers, he was about to take his break when he saw a beautiful girl walk into the store.

Lance decided to stay for one more picture. Gabriella, the beautiful girl, walked over to Lance, the handsome shirtless Abercrombie model, and took a picture with him. “You’re really pretty,” Lance said to Gabriella.

Gabriella and Lance ended up making small talk later in the day and eventually exchanged numbers. They met at the local Starbucks that Sunday and completely hit it off. They spend hours talking about hobbies, music, family, life goals, and how they both “weren’t looking for a relationship,” and realized that they had lived 10 minutes away from each other nearly their whole lives.

On February 8th, 2013 (Lance’s birthday), the two people who “weren’t looking for a relationship” started officially dating. Fast forward to exactly four years later and, on February 8th, 2017, Gabriella’s Shirtless Abercrombie Model, and now best friend, asked her to marry him.

THE PROPOSAL

On February 8th, 2017, Lance and Gabriella celebrated both Lance’s birthday and their 4-year anniversary of dating. They had planned to go out for a “nice dinner” with friends in Gaithersburg after Lance gave Gabriella an anniversary gift he had been working on.

Before heading to dinner, Lance took Gabriella and two other friends to their “spot on the lake” (Black Hill Regional Park) where Lance had given Gabriella a promise ring 3 years prior. Without Gabriella knowing, he had set up strings of lights and a projector screen in the trees earlier. Upon arriving to their spot (and after some technical difficulty), Lance played a slideshow of pictures of them throughout their relationship and clips of him surprising Gabriella.

As if that wasn’t enough of an anniversary gift, Lance then told Gabriella that there was another surprise across the lake. He handed her a pair of binoculars and had her look across the lake, where he had friends lighting up a sign with flashlights that read “WILL YOU MARRY ME?” As the song “Marry Me” by Train started to play, and Lance dropped down on one knee to ask Gabriella to marry him.