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Ari and I met a little over two years ago when I was randomly paired with her during a walk-in haircut. She did a great job and I really enjoyed our conversation. I scheduled my next appointment for 4 weeks later. After doing the same thing for a few months I realized I did not want to wait another month until I saw her again. I looked her up on facebook and asked if she wanted to get some coffee and maybe dinner. The date went quite well and so did the next and the and one after that.. and the one after that, etc. After a month or so Ari and I were seeing each other daily. To this day we would rather be with each other than anywhere else in the world. After a lot of thought I finally got up the courage to ask her to marry me and, as you are reading this, she said yes!

We met at my work! Tim had been bouncing around between stylists until he sat in my chair. I remember thinking he was cute and I always had a lot of fun talking to him but never thought anything of it until about 4 haircuts later when he came in acting a little nervous. Later I came to find out he was looking for an opportunity to ask me out but didn’t really get the chance, so he left with an extra cute grin and let the eye contact linger for just a moment (or two or three) longer than usual. My face and a perfectly ripe strawberry had more similarities than I’d really care to admit and it was obvious to my coworkers that were lucky enough to witness the whole thing that there was undeniable chemistry. For about a week I kept asking one of my friends who happened to be there for the heart racing eye contact, “Is it weird if I find him on Facebook? I can’t text him right? That’s too weird.. is Facebook weird? What do I do?” And she insisted that I should just wait until he came in for his next appointment to talk to him. So... I found him on Facebook and was going to send him a message to see if he wanted to go out and lo and behold he had already beat me to it. He had messaged me not 20 minutes after he left his last haircut. Five dates later I had made up my mind that I’d stay with him for as long as he’d have me, and lucky for me that’s forever.