We met on December 29, 2010 at Roosevelt's Bar in McAllen. Amira was celebrating the day before her 22nd birthday and Benjamin was tagging along with mutual friends. From the moment the conversation started between us, there was an instant attraction. The saying "sparks flew" is cheesy, but there is hardly another way to describe it. Days after meeting, Amira had already told her sister Naema and close girl friends that she knew Benjamin was the man she was going to marry one day. The fact that Amira was living in San Antonio at the time, attending St. Mary's University, and Benjamin had already graduated from University of Texas at Austin, and was already working in McAllen, was a small detail compared to the overwhelming feelings that were shared between the two. After living in San Antonio, and then moving to Austin, we finally circled back to our hometown of McAllen in August 2015, where we currently reside. We are overjoyed to share the sacrament of Holy Matrimony with our friends and family on October 28, 2017!!!