"The couple first met in the summer of 2014. René was selling Ghirardelli chocolate chip cookies in the stands at the Stockton Ports baseball stadium in Stockton, California, while earning her bachelor’s degree in geology at the University of the Pacific. Max was working in stadium operations, his first job after graduating from the University of Massachusetts Amherst earlier that year. “I remember when I first saw her working there — I talked to one of my co-workers and I was like, ‘I need to meet her,’” Max said. They hit it off over drinks with co-workers, and two days later, had their first official date at an Italian restaurant. “We knew immediately that we were very important to each other,” she said. Within three weeks, he was meeting her mother. Four months later, she flew to Taunton, Massachusetts, to spend Christmas with his family."