When Alexander City District 3 City Council Representative Scott Hardy proposed to his girlfriend, KK Hines (now Hardy), two years ago, there was nothing spur-of-the-moment about it.

“He had this planned out to a T,” said KK Hardy, an elementary school teacher in Opelika. “He proposed to me in my school lunchroom, and everybody was in on it – my principal, the whole faculty, even my students and my bridesmaids.”