While we met online like many couples do, we actually grew up in the same small town only three blocks away from each other. In fact, it's a miracle that we had never crossed paths before we did. Within the first week of knowing each other we had already been on three dates, and haven't stopped wanting to spend time together since.

One random Tuesday, Phil came home from work and surprised Abby in the apartment on one knee with a watermelon-flavored ring pop. We quickly realized that a ring pop wouldn't be ideal to wear everyday, and went together to find a real ring. A few impatient days later, we told our families and the world on Easter Sunday... which also happened to be our one year anniversary. We thought this was a nice neat way to formalize our engagement, which we had been (half) joking about already for months. In fact, we basically had our whole wedding thought out already!