(Caysi's Version)
Kevin and I met pursuing our BFAs in Musical Theatre at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ.
I didn’t exactly love my first year of college and had decided to call it quits halfway through my sophomore year. Knowing I was leaving Rider put me in a “why not” and “say yes to everything” mindset. Which ultimately was why when my college roommate asked if I wanted to go to a party at Kevin and his roommates’ apartment one Friday night in late January of 2015, I said yes.
I’ll never forget the mental screenshot of Kevin winking at me as I left his apartment that night. I was in total disbelief.
The very next night, with the help of some liquid courage, Kevin and I found ourselves discussing at length our shared love for Disney Parks. It became clear we had a lot more than a love of Disney in common—including Kevin being Dunkin’ coffee-obsessed and me having just won $500 in Dunkin’ gift cards in a Twitter contest :P We talked and talked throughout the entire evening and ended the night with 2AM Quesadillas at the on-campus restaurant “Crans.” From then on, we were pretty much inseparable. Needless to say, I did not end up leaving Rider.
Kevin officially asked me to be his girlfriend on February 15th, 2015 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square New York. We spent the remainder of Kevin's year and a half left of college falling in love, being college students, growing up, performing, and going on countless adventures together.
After Kevin graduated, we spent a summer performing together in ZACH Theatre's production of MARY POPPINS in Austin, TX and "playing house" in Kevin's actor-housing. It was during this summer that we began planning our future and decided to move to Orlando, FL together. We moved into our first apartment after I graduated at the end of 2016.
Since then we've spent a year living in New York City, moved back to Central Florida, adopted a dog (Jax), survived a pandemic, started new careers, bought a house, and got engaged on the St. Petersburg pier in November of 2023 (Kevin absolutely nailed it!)
We love our little lives together and could not be happier to finally celebrate our tying the knot with the people we love most. Thank you for being our supporters and our favorite people!
"The universe is funny that way. Sometimes it just has a way of making sure we wind up exactly where we belong." - Meredith Grey