ALLISON ALDERSON & JAY DEMARCUS
MAY 15, 2004
Newlyweds for 170 days!
ABOUT ALLISON
Allison is a former pharmaceutical sales representative with Eli Lilly & Company. While at Eli Lilly & Company, Allison was ranked in the top 10% of the nation, was a part of the Diabetes Care Executive Council and on the National Wall of Fame at Lilly Headquarters in Indianapolis, IN. She is a 1999 cum laude graduate of Rhodes College with a BA in Business Administration. Allison received the Wall Street Journal Award in Finance, which is the highest award in finance among graduating seniors. Allison was crowned Miss Tennessee 1999 and represented her home state in the Miss America pageant and traveled the state of TN as the Governor's Spokesperson for a Safe and Drug Free Tennessee. Allison also won Miss Tennessee USA in 2002. She is the first young woman in pageant history to represent Tennessee in Miss Teen USA, Miss America and the Miss USA pageants.
ABOUT JAY
Jay is originally from Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated from Tree of Life Christian School in 1989. He attended Lee University in Cleveland, TN where he was a piano major. Jay began his music career while at Lee and shortly after, became a member of the Christian music duo, East to West, which recorded seven number one Christian songs. Jay then began working for triple Grammy award winning artist, Michael English, as bass guitarist and producer. Jay was also Chely Wright's band leader for a few years before signing his own record deal with Lyric Street Records with country music group, Rascal Flatts. The Rascal Flatts are the reigning Group of the Year according to the CMA and ACMs, have won Song of the Year at the ACMs, and won a Flameworthy Award for their number one video, These Days. Rascal Flatts have sold over 4 1/2 million records with their first album recently going double platinum and their second album currently platinum.
HOW THEY MET
Allison and Jay met when Allison was cast to star in Rascal Flatts' country music video, These Days, which went to number one on the country video charts. Jay followed Allison around the entire day and finally spilled his salad on her to get her attention!
WHEN THEY GOT ENGAGED
August 9, 2003
HOW IT HAPPENED
Jay flew Allison to NYC and took her to dinner at the Tavern on the Green. After dinner, Jay and Allison went to the fire hydrant she was sitting on when she answered Jay's first phone call to her when she was in New York City with her mother and sister. Jay sat Allison down on the fire hydrant and got on one knee and asked her to spend the rest of her life with him! How romantic!