Relationship begins with jelly beans at Walmart

“I was working at Walmart on the night shift, but I was going to move to days because my shift got real boring. So out of curiosity I was thinking, there have to be some cute girls on the day shift, right? Like, somebody.

“I kept hearing the name Hunter float around. So when I moved to the day shift I was like, I’ve got to find that girl with Hunter on her name tag.

“I was working in receiving, and we had 20-something people on our team. I was looking for someone who fit the description: a 5-foot-5 or 5-foot-6 blond girl with blue eyes. I figured that shouldn’t be too hard. But it took me two days because she was off my first day on the shift.

“That next day, I saw her in the break room. She was sitting there eating a bag of strawberry-flavored jelly beans. I asked her if it was OK if I sat down, and she said, ‘Yeah.’ I didn’t exactly know what to say after that. She was the first one to really speak up. She said, ‘Hey, would you like some jelly beans?’ And I was like, ‘Sure.’

“So our relationship started with jelly beans. Now here we are, about two years later, and we’re engaged.”

— Marcus Cerda (with Hunter Hinnant)