Bri and I met through a few of our friends and ran in the same friend group. The first real conversation I had with Bri I felt like we really connected and I wanted to get to know more about her. I thought that she was incredibly smart, determined and very beautiful. Since we were a part of the same friend group it wasn't hard to see Bri, but, on the days I wouldn't see her I would go to the library and pretend to study in hope of finding her in there so we could talk or study together. Over time, we became very close friends. We would go to study together, watch movies together, spend hours on the phone and would spend the majority of our day together. I loved spending time with Bri and I was head over heels for her but I didn't think that she had feelings for me like I did for her. Days would go by and I would go back and forth on whether or not I should tell her that I liked her but I was afraid that if I told her and she didn't feel the same way that I would lose her and I couldn't risk it. We went to visit a friend in OKC and we talked for hours. There were so many times during this trip that I wanted to tell her how I felt but I was convinced that she didn't feel the same about me. One night in April 2018, we went to go get dinner and we started talking and laughing in her car and ended up talking for 5 hours on how we had feelings for each other and could envision a life together. For a few weeks, we kept it a secret that we were together but eventually told all of our friends that we were dating. The best part about us being together was that Bri was my best friend and very early into our relationship I realized that she was someone that I could see spending the rest of my life with.

Okay so you know the scene in the Princess Bride when Westley and Buttercup are tumbling down the hill and Westley is screaming “AS YOU WISH” because that’s like his secret way of saying “I love you”. In so many ways this scene parallels how Ben and I’s relationship began. Ben and I first met hanging out in the same friend group sophomore year of college (shout out to FamBam). In those days I would have never guessed that Ben would be more than the goofy guy who was friends with all my friends. As our friendship progressed people would ask me all the time if there was something there, but I was truly convinced that we just had a solid friendship nothing more. It stayed that way for a long time until one day our spring semester of Junior year, we decided to go visit a friend together in OKC. Since it was a long-ish car ride it gave us lots of time to talk and I unexpectedly learned a whole new depth to Ben. We talked about where God had taken us and where we thought we were going. After leaving that conversation I couldn’t stop thinking about him and it dawned on me “Shoot I wanna date this boy”. So this is where the Princess Bride reference comes in because the next couple months were everything BUT smooth haha. I had convinced myself I could play it cool and surely these feelings would go away. In reality, I am not that smooth and I started doing this thing where as soon as I felt myself getting closer to Ben I would get scared and do something rash to push him away. After months of this internal battle of trying and failing to keep Ben away, he finally sat me down and told me he liked me. This completely blew my mind because not once did Ben ever let on that he liked me! Well, after that I guess you could say the rest is history because here I am typing this story on that goofy guy’s wedding website. (: 

We hope everyone is staying healthy! As of now, we are still planning to have the wedding on July 2nd 2020. New information concerning COVID-19 is released every day and we will be sure to update you if we end up postponing the wedding. (posted 4/11/2020)