Let’s take a trip back to August 29th, 2022, the day our lives completely changed. I came to Italy on a daddy daughter trip in hopes to have one last grand vacation before I moved to Texas and started my new life. Little did I know I would meet my future husband at our 7:30pm dinner reservation. My family owned a beautiful restaurant in the city center of Volterra where I happened to have a very handsome server come over to take our order. I was so nervous I barely looked honestly. I got even more nervous once I said “grazie” and he corrected how I pronounced it and after that I was like yup, I’m embarrassed I’m not speaking anymore lol. I begged my dad to ask him his story just so I could get to know him since I was too shy to ask myself. Fast forward a bit to everyday after this I joined my cousin at her restaurant and sat and simply enjoyed watching him work and his friendship. We quickly became friends, and it changed my entire experience in this small little town. I already planned to come back and live here for maybe a year or so but now I was even more convinced that this is where I was meant to be. We spent the next two months texting, talking, facetiming, and just getting to know each other while I was in America waiting for my citizenship to allow me to live full-time. In these months I think we both knew we genuinely hated being apart and that there was something more than a friendship forming. February 2023, I returned and met him to celebrate my birthday and got to spend a week meeting his family and it honestly was the best week and birthday. Which made it clear we were meant to be together and made it official. In November 2023 we both faced our biggest challenge finding out we were going to be parents, but we knew we could handle it together and we are so glad we did because on August 28th, 2024, we met our beautiful little boy Louis and he completely changed our worlds. So, what’s our story summed up? Two people from opposites sides of the world against all odds met, built a friendship foundation, fell in love, grew their family and found real happiness within each other. And that’s it. That’s the story of how Myself Katarina and my future HUSBAND (can’t believe I’m writing that) Adrian became engaged and are welcoming you to our big day!