Studies suggest that the average woman is likely to meet "the one" at around age 25, while the average man might find his life partner closer to age 28. That being said, if you told Bailey she had met the man she would marry approaching age 27, she would have laughed in disbelief. For Will, he was losing hope just as fast...

It was in 2019, that Bailey and Will first crossed paths at VENT fitness following Will's discovery of Bailey on Instagram. Will was in disbelief Bailey was a real person until this day. Will made comments to his gym buddies about Bailey but none of them knew much about her. If you know Bailey, you know she had her tunnel vision on and was there on a mission, to workout.

It was the later part of 2020, that Will and Bailey were going about their lives when they crossed paths yet again at 'BJ's Brewhouse' in Albany, NY. Bailey was with her boyfriend at the time and Will there visiting his current girlfriend who was working. Both parties were sitting at the bar which was only yet so big, there was eye contact made between Bailey and Will. The kind of eye contact that says, "You look familiar, but is it really you?" It wasn't until Bailey's boyfriend got up to use the restroom that Will struck up small talk. The conversation was centered around where we both were at in life and surface level chitter chatter. Following this, Bailey and Will did not speak again until...

May 2023, when Bailey checked her phone and noticed a message from Will on Instagram saying, "Welcome Back!". Will highlighted that, seemingly every few years, he would date a woman who had a problem with Bailey, whether they knew her or not. It was always shortly after the breakups that Bailey would re-surface in Will's suggested friends on Instagram and they would rekindle....briefly. However, this time it was more than brief. For the first time, we settled on an actual date.

This is where the story switches from overview to a view from the side of the groom. This transition exists because there is no perspective other than my own that could quantify how much of a pivotal moment in my life that encounter was. Our first date had all of the standard questions and observations of two people getting to know one another, until it came over me that she was going to be different. It ran over me like a wave washing over sand, resetting all the footprints from the day. I’ll save some of you all the intimate details, but by the end of the evening, at 29 years old it dawned on me that I now understand the saying of “when you know you know”. I drove home in complete silence in the rain just thinking about what just happened and how to respond to these feelings I had never felt before. 


After I pulled into my driveway proceeding 30 minutes of silence and self reflection I called my parents and told them I found her. When they asked me if there were any things that I was nervous about or afraid of the only thing I could think to say was that I was nervous that I adore her so much, that I may unintentionally try to paint myself as the man I think she will want, and I can’t do that to someone so special. So for the next year I did my absolute best to never over sell myself because for the first time ever, the thought of disappointing someone else (her) would hurt more than finding myself disappointed in another. That following year would bring us to more than 20 states, 2 countries, 2 houses, 1 business and more love and happiness than the 28 years prior combined. Every day after the first date was simply to count the days down until I could ask her the question that brought you all to this page and our story.


so, as it was known to Will that the future was already determined, that fact may not have been as known to Bailey. An ever changing plan was set into motion to bring them together where Will realized that he may be able to create a reason to convince Bailey to leave her very affordable apartment with no shades on the windows, and bring them together in Delmar, where the school district is good, the distance is no longer, and the construction of the walk in closet converted from a bedroom has begun. Needless to say, once the closet was completed, Bailey came soon after.

Once they began living together things began to become real. The walls had been painted from dark black to bright white. The floors were changed from a cold ceramic tile to a warm wood plank. The kitchen was opened up and the new fridge had real food that needed more than a microwave. The renovations had turned that house into a home. The projects continued, and as the time together grew, they brought about stress, excitement, fun and frustration. However at the end of every day they got together and had dinner at the table. And as the chairs switched from boxes, to folding, to dining, and their lives went from separate, to intertwined, to one… Soon the number of days since that very first date were reaching a year, she knew she’d have to make a choice soon. Now with all of those adventures and experiences under their belt. It was time to turn the page and open the next chapter of their lives. The chapter where with the simple answer to a very big question, two families would become one, and a forever knot would be created from trust, ambition, and love.