We're Getting Married!

We'd known of each other for a few years before we started dating, we even lived less than a mile away from one another growing up (Yes, Conrad was the boy next door). Conrad decided to make a move by messaging me on Facebook, where he thought the relationship was going to begin. However, I had other plans. It wasn’t until 6 months later that I decided to give him a chance (yes, I was in denial). Things changed after our first date because Conrad found the way to my heart...Netflix and good food. After a summer together in Michigan, I had to move to Florida for college, and so our long distance relationship began. After 3 years of facetime, countless flights, and months of not seeing each other, I moved to Virginia where Conrad had been for 2 years, so we could finally be in the same city and officially start our life together.

After many many conversations about when to get married and me pretending to “show no interest,” Carlie started to become skeptic that a proposal wasn’t going to happen anytime soon. Little did she know, I had been planning the proposal for 6 months. Originally I had planned to propose to Carlie on her first trip to my home country of Uganda, but things didn’t work out for that trip. So I decided to propose on our trip to Taiwan with the help of my friend Jared. I had pictured my pinterest worthy proposal to Carlie during sunset at Sun Moon Lake, but once again Carlie had other plans due to her inability to read military time (yes, she is a nurse). After a missed train, a long night of Carlie unknowingly planning her ride to her proposal, a 3am Uber ride, Carlie not leaving my side (so I can get the ring from Jared), trespassing caution tape, jumping a locked gate to the dock, and mother nature playing games with me and not being on time with the sunrise...I finally was able to ask Carlie Ann Newman to be my wife.