Time to celebrate!

We met on a dating app and his opening chat really made me want to get to know him. On Hinge (where we met), the guy can initiate the conversation, but the woman has to accept his chat invite. Austin's opening chat message (that made me respond to him) was "I just wanted to let you know you have a great smile and beautiful eyes." After that we were always talking and texting. We wanted to be friends before anything developed. We would wake each other up and send each other to bed with a good morning or good night text. We never really put down our phones during our first month and a half of knowing each other. He lived about an hour away from me so we couldn't see each other every day. But we made the effort to make it work. Austin ended up being my very best friend in the world, and I became his. He would tell me if he was upset or if he was having an amazing day or if he was worried about something specific (I couldn't make it better, but I could be there for him to lean on). And he was there for me in the exact same way. The first date I was so at ease just being myself (goofy and weird) and Austin was able to be himself too. No pressure to make a good first impression, no awkward pauses trying to think of questions to get to know each other, and nothing had to be perfect...even though it absolutely was. Our story didn't start out as a hallmark classic (maybe one of the newer stories), but it is OUR story; and I wouldn't change a bit of it. Now it's our turn to bring in our friends and families to be a part of our next chapter. And remember; a wedding isn't the end of a story...it's the beginning of a new one.