‘I Pulled Out the Ring, Got on My Knee and Asked Her to Be My Wife’

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times STACI & UNDREZ LAWRENCE Live: Helena Married: July 7, 2017 Met: February 2016, at the athletic complex in Pleasant Grove. Both were divorcees and had mixed feelings about pursuing new relationships. “It was opening day at the field [at Pleasant Grove Park] for softball and baseball and I saw Undrez at a distance and inquired about him,” Staci recalled. “I asked ‘Who’s that guy in the khaki shorts, what’s his story, is he taken?’, and a mutual friend [Danitra Blevins] said I’ll find out because I think the two of you would be a good match. And she went over and found out he was unattached.” Undrez passed word through their mutual friend that he would find Staci and meet her after the softball game. After meeting, her he was taken by her aura and became nervous and tongue-tied. “I had never experienced someone’s aura and the goodness in them before. I was so nervous that when I asked for her number I used a pen and paper and people around me were like you know you could’ve used your cell phone right?,” Undrez laughed. He called two days later and...