We’re Getting Married Finally!

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Our families have known each other for many years through Building Blocks. And there may even be some pictures floating around of Chris and me dressed up in our Halloween costumes at the ages of 2 and 4. However, I’d like to consider us meeting for the first time as camp counselors at the Building Blocks camp around the summer of 2002. We quickly became good friends and had many inside jokes as we shared the next few summers together. I went off to college, as did Chris, and our lives went in different directions. The summer of 2015, I was helping out Chris’s cousin with alterations on her wedding gown. I was invited to the wedding that October and was reminded by many bystanders that “Chris would be there” and it would be a good chance for us to “catch up.” These bystanders (you know who you are) had other intentions for us, and although knowing this made our initial interaction a bit awkward, Chris managed to catch my eye, make me laugh, and he even snuck a kiss on my cheek in the photo booth. The very next weekend was our first official date.