We've known each other since we were little. Our fathers and uncles have always been close. We were best friends in elementary school, where we would walk each other home at the end of every day. My family would pick Nick up for church on Wednesday nights. As we grew up, we always stayed friends, but had grown apart, as people do. After college, when two of our best friends got married, we reconnected at their wedding. We have been together ever since.

On the fifth anniversary of our first date, Nick asked me to marry him. He planned everything out and it was so thoughtful and beautiful. He wanted to recreate things as similar to our first date as possible. We ate Italian and then went to Barboursville Park, where he got down on one knee and popped the question. When he asked, it was an easy answer. I said yes to the same boy that I would walk home from school with everyday when we were kids. He was my best friend then, and he's my best friend now and forever. I said yes to a good, loyal, kind man. I can't wait to take on life with my person.