Lia Vaccaro ’17 and Brandon Vaccaro ’18

During my freshman year I was a writer for HerCampus Magazine and had a column called “Campus Cutie.” When I was attending Spirit Splash 2013, I saw Brandon walking with a pizza in hand and shirtless. I pointed him out to my friend and said how cute he was. She suggested I ask him to be featured in my Campus Cutie column, which previously I had only asked friends to be in. When I hesitated out of nerves, my friend physically pushed me into him! At that point I had no excuse but to ask, so we followed each other on Facebook, where I sent him the article questions. These questions included: boxers or briefs, describe your perfect date, favorite song, single or taken, what traits attract you to a girl, etc. He answered my questions, sent me the picture I needed for the article and before I left the chat he asked if I was in a relationship. I said no, he said he found me attractive, so I responded, “If you want to try out your perfect date, text me sometime” and gave him my number. He kept me waiting two days before he texted me lol Because you know, that was the “thing to do.” We scheduled our date, I got so nervous I almost didn’t show up, but did and we spent HOURS talking and just clicked! Come to find out we were both twins too! Brandon made it so easy to fall in love with him. We enjoyed three years at UCF together before he graduated the year before me. He moved back to Jacksonville, got a job. I graduated, moved home to Tampa, before landing a job as a reporter in Augusta, Ga. We did long distance for a little over six years, but only got stronger. I’m so happy to say we are no longer long distance, officially been together for 10 years now and in June will be celebrating year two of marriage! He’s my best friend, the love of my life and I couldn’t be more grateful for UCF and the infamous Spirit Splash for bringing us together! Not to mention we both caught a duck that year and every year after that we went together and caught all but one duck out of my 4 years! He’s definitely the Knightro to my Glycerin and my forever campus cutie!♥️🥰