"You don't find love, let love find you"

June 14th, 2012....The night that our two lives crossed paths. "You don't find love, let love find you" & truer words have never been spoken. What was supposed to have been a regular night out at Toucans in Palm Springs, ended up being the night we found our soulmate, best friend, & partner in life. From the moment of entry to Toucans, Peeter and I instantly locked eyes through a wall mirror as he casually danced in front of it. As the night went on, we continued to only make contact through the mirror with smiles, and casual flirty eyes, until a friend at that time, challenged me to go up to Peeter at the bar...where I quickly turned down his challenge. At that point in my life, I was no longer looking, searching or wanting Love as Love had not been so kind to me months and years prior, so I declined. I was ok with the simple casual flirting through the mirrors, I was enjoying it. That changed quickly when I noticed, my then friend, quickly approached Peeter and was going to take his shot with Peeter, since I was not bold enough to do it. From a distance I watched as "my friend" had casual conversations with Peeter, BUT something inside me said..GO TALK TO HIM! In my head, I had already convinced myself that I wanted to get to know this guy, but I was allowing my anxiety get the best of me. Somehow, I convinced myself to just go talk to him, knowing that I could quickly lose this opportunity to meet Peeter to a "friend", and I said...NOT TODAY. As they were two casually talking, I got right in the middle of them and asked Peeter to hand over his phone, and to my surprise & luck, he did. I started to place my phone number into his phone and told him "If you still want to get to know me, feel free to text or call me whenever you want". Soon after, Peeter left for the night and I was left wondering and curious thinking, Will he call or text me? First thing in the morning....I woke up to a Good Morning Text. That Text led to a phone call, that phone call led to a date, and that date led to many more. Sadly, as I got to know him further, I learned he no longer lived in the area...He lived hundred of miles away in Chico, Ca as he was a student at Chico State. This was a complete bummer, because I already really liked this guy. As he was getting ready to leave back to Chico, we made an agreement that we would continue to stay in contact and see where this led. That contact did not stop...Turned into flights & drives to and from Chico for us both. It became something neither one of us expected. We became more than just partners, we became one. Soon after, we took the biggest step of moving in together and life just continued to get so much better. 10yrs later...Here we are, still inseparable , still completely in love and we only continue to grow stronger and stronger TOGETHER! With that said, here we are! Married, and we are so happy and blessed to be able to share this day with you all as we not only celebrate our marriage to each other, but to celebrate LOVE.