Wow, where to begin???? Well.... as most of you know, I was previously engaged and had a whole wedding planned that I didnt go through with (That is strangely the biggest part of how I met my Sweet Justin <3)

Well, My photographer I had hired for that previous wedding became one of my good friends and knew this "really great guy" that was "alot older than me" but she wanted to set me up with him so bad, because we had "so much in common".

I fought her on this for like 2 months... Constant pestering and pleading to go out with her friend until finallyyyy I gave in and agreed to meet this "really great guy" :-) 

My first date with Justin was a simple Thursday night on March 19, 2020. I think we all remember what that month looked like- EVERYTHING shutting down around us because of Covid-19- yuck!!!! Well, we decided that no matter, we were going to make this first date happen (it was destiny in the works hehe)

We had 2 options- Waffle House OR Applebee's.... Naturally, we chose Applebee's (it seemed more 1st date worthy out of the choices lol). Instantly, I knew we had met our match in each other. We continued to talk about anything and everything for the next ummmm... like 8 hrs?!?!! *laughing* I had finally met someone interesting that could keep up with my daily word count :-)

We continued to see each other nearly everyday as we were both furloughed from work at the time and quickly became inseparable. We came into each others life at a time that was scary for most and for us it was the beginning of our beautiful forever together!! Since then, we have gone on so many more adventures together and hope to keep adding to our list till we are old. The most important adventure, to date happened this past March 19th, 2025- 5 years to the date of that very first and very long date we had together. On an unassuming simple Wednesday night, at that very same Applebee's, he asked me to be his wife!!!!!!!!!  *sqeeeeeaaaal* :-) 

I am so glad we met! We have healed parts of each other's hearts that I don't think either of us ever truly thought we would recover from. He adds so much value and love to both mine and Bridgette's life and I could never picture my life without him at this point!

We really hope you can spend this special day with us as we sail to Paradise and have the time of our lives! Thank you for being part of our Love Story, hope we talk soon!!! <3