We're getting married!

We met on the train. He was on his way back to base and I was exploring the city. I sat next to him and he told me a hilarious joke that made me want to talk to him for the rest of the night. We did, and here we are today, about to be married.

I actually knew the night we met, but I repressed those feelings for months until Kyle was ready. When he also came to that conclusion, it was around his birthday in April, 2017. Before then, we were casually dating since February. It was strange, neither of us like romantic movies, but it felt like we were happily trapped in one. To this day, we laugh about those cliche moments, yet it was those precise seconds where we both knew, but didn't say a word.

This was an adventure, so let's start at the beginning. We started talking about marriage and what it entails February 12th, 2018. We had been dating for a year, but still unsure if we would get married. He lived in Phoenix at the time and I was bouncing from Wyoming to Minnesota for school. We had different worldviews and goals in life. That night we hashed it out and decided that we would eventually be married. That late April, he moved to Minneapolis and that eventually became a reality. On September 30th he proposed and we publicly announced our engagement on October 5th.

We deliberated on our last name. Would we go traditional and I take Kyle's last name? Would I hyphenate my last name? Or should we continue our strange cliche life and combine our last names? After nearly a year of trying to decide, we fell in love with a name that best represents our relationship, but also showcasing our parental roots: Wolvia. In Old English Wolvia means lucky. Every day Kyle says that he was lucky to meet me. As cheesy as it is, it was fate on our side that we would meet at the perfect time in our lives. Although it is nontraditional, we love our future last name.