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- Dad Sets Up His Daughter with Stranger He Met on a Plane. Now They're Engaged and the Flight Number Is on Her Ring (Exclusive)</p>
<p>Ashlyn RobinetteJuly 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM</p>
<p>Mackenzie Anne Photography</p>
<p>Kevin Perreault and Bec Striffler</p>
<p>A man's airplane chat led to his daughter's engagement.</p>
<p>Kevin Perreault, 25, was traveling from Denver to Phoenix on Nov. 4, 2021, when he met a stranger who would change the trajectory of his love life forever.</p>
<p>Aboard his American Airlines flight, Perreault was sitting in the window seat when the man in his row's aisle seat, Ed Striffler, stuck up a conversation with him about his shirt, which indicated that he was a member of the The Design-Build Institute of America, Arizona State University Chapter. Ed, 53, asked Perreault if he had just attended the same construction conference as him, The Design-Build Institute of America's 2021 Design-Build Conference & Expo, and learned that he had.</p>
<p>"It was cool to see such a small world come together," Perreault says.</p>
<p>Courtesy of Bec Striffler and Kevin Perreault</p>
<p>Photo of Kevin Perreault taken by Ed Striffler</p>
<p>The two then discussed the construction program at Arizona State University, and, coincidentally, Ed happened to be a former client and longtime friend of Perreault's then-boss. Ed snapped a photo of Perreault and sent it to his boss, writing, "Look who I ran into on the plane."</p>
<p>"I'm thinking, 'Who the hell is this guy?' " Perreault remembers, adding that he was anxious how his boss would react but luckily he sent a "cheesy reply."</p>
<p>Ed then mentioned that his daughter, Bec Striffler, was also studying at Arizona State University. He showed Perreault a few photos of Bec, 23, and her photography work. Perreault thought she was "smoking hot" but obviously couldn't say that to Ed, so he just expressed interest in her portfolio.</p>
<p>Once the plane landed in Phoenix, Ed gave Perreault his business card but Perreault didn't have one to give him in return.</p>
<p>Mackenzie Anne Photography</p>
<p>Kevin Perreault and Bec Striffler</p>
<p>The pair went their separate ways, with Ed getting dinner with Bec.</p>
<p>"No context, he whips out his phone and shows the picture of Kev that he took," Bec tells PEOPLE. "Word for word, he says, 'This is Kevin, and if you don't date Kevin, I'm going to date Kevin.' And I was like, 'Oh my God, what did you do?' "</p>
<p>Ed went "on and on" praising Perreault, but Bec noted that he didn't even know his last name so she wouldn't know where to look for Perreault if she wanted to find him. So, "right then and there," Ed texted Perreault's boss for that key piece of information.</p>
<p>"Now you have no excuse not to find him," Bec remembers her father telling her.</p>
<p>Bec found Perreault's Instagram account, and followed him. A few weeks later, Perreault went "straight to the chase" and asked her out over DM. He skipped the small talk because he "already knew the answers to the questions everybody asks" thanks to Ed.</p>
<p>Courtesy of Bec Striffler and Kevin Perreault</p>
<p>First Instagram DM conversation between Kevin Perreault and Bec Striffler</p>
<p>Ed "leapt out of his recliner" when Bec shared her first date news with her parents, and "was just so excited," exclaiming, "Oh my God, this is the best thing ever. This is going to be so great. Like, I could just see it forever. It's going to be so fantastic."</p>
<p>"That whole week leading up to the date, my dad was texting me almost daily," Bec adds. "He was like, 'Where are you going on your date? How is it going? What are you guys talking about?' My dad was so invested."</p>
<p>Ed's matchmaking skills were successful because Bec and Perreault made their relationship official in December 2021.</p>
<p>Three and a half years later, Perreault popped the question during Coldplay's song "Yellow" at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 15. Yes, that concert that went viral for a scandalous affair.</p>
<p>Kevin Perreault and Bec Striffler at Coldplay Concerts</p>
<p>Courtesy of Bec Striffler and Kevin Perreault Kevin Perreault and Bec Striffler at their first Coldplay concert together</p>
<p>Courtesy of Bec Striffler and Kevin Perreault Bec Striffler and Kevin Perreault during Coldplay's performance of</p>
<p>"Yellow" is meaningful to the couple because it's about "love and happiness." Plus, the pair went to a Coldplay concert in Los Angeles early in their relationship, which made the band have "a special place" in their hearts.</p>
<p>Although Perreault had received Bec's parents' blessing beforehand in January, they were still surprised by the engagement news because the proposal took place on a different day than originally planned. It's safe to say that Ed was the happiest.</p>
<p>"He's super pumped. He just was telling everyone," Bec says. "He said the first person he texted was Kevin's old boss."</p>
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<p>Courtesy of Bec Striffler and Kevin Perreault</p>
<p>Kevin Perreault and Bec Striffler</p>
<p>Perreault proposed with a duchess-cut ring from Olive Ave Jewelry in Arizona. Even more special than the sparkling diamond was the engraving inside the gold band. Etched on the ring is the date of Perreault and Ed's flight, 11/4/2021, and their flight number, AA1309.</p>
<p>"I was just thinking about the whole like invisible strength thing," Bec shares. "The fact that Kevin is an alumni where my dad was an alumni in the construction program at ASU, the fact that he worked for the company that was building my dad's project, like my dad worked with his boss my whole life, all those different things. But it took an airplane for them to meet with the randomest period. Like they could have met at any sort of industry setting, but having two hours on an airplane uninterrupted just gave them the information they needed about each other. It's crazy."</p>
<p>Bec and Perreault both graduated from Arizona State University and now work in construction. They're not in any rush to plan their wedding, but are eying a date in 2026.</p>
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