We met on a dating app during the summer of 2019. Max slid into Cierra's DMs and declared that he was going to take her on a date that would "knock [her] socks off". Well, we don't really remember what happened with the socks, but it was certainly a good time! Since then, we've experienced a pandemic in which we didn't see each other for months during lockdown, new jobs, new careers, and through all of it our relationship has been the rock in the storm - but there's been a lot of laughs and fun adventures too.

After being together for seven years and living together for almost four, Max finally proposed. He made the ring himself under the supervision of a professional jeweler in Grand Haven and proposed outside Cierra's favorite restaurant.