Oliver and Cassie Nilsson’s love story started in 2012 at an Outback Steakhouse on Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Cassie was a 21-year-old server who lived with her parents, and Oliver was 18 years old and still in high school. Resistant to moving with her parents to Alabama, Cassie soon asked Oliver to move in with her, and so started their journey of moving back and forth across the state—whether for school or work.
Oliver went on to complete a couple years at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, but then the couple moved to Orlando so he could finish out school at the University of Central Florida where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering. Meanwhile, Cassie worked at an orthodontics and dental office as an assistant. They lived and rented an apartment in Orlando for about four-and-a-half years before moving to Tampa, where Oliver had landed his first post-grad job.
