We're getting married!

Stephen & I met each other on a dating app in early September of 2017. It didn't take long before the conversation flowed, and we found that both of us could (thankfully) hold a great conversation and barely kept the other waiting for a reply. Within a few days Stephen asked me out for drinks, (I learned later that he always just said "drinks" so that if the girl wasn't cute, he could leave after two drinks and not stick around for dinner... lol!). WELL, drinks turned into dinner... and LOTS of talking and laughing. We both laugh when we remember the restaurant where he asked me to meet him. We were the youngest people there by about 30 or 40 years! In his defense, he had never really gone out north of Seattle... and honestly, I'm not sure either of us really cared where we were after the first 15 minutes. I think I knew I was in trouble when halfway through dinner our knees were interlocked, and we kept leaning in... even though the restaurant wasn't the least bit loud. That date took place on September 15th, 2017. Date after date went by and our conversations got longer and deeper. I think it was our 7th or 8th date when the topic of marriage first came up. We both knew we wanted a bigger family, and that our goal was to put our relationship with our spouse first. Our ideals about love and marriage were aligned (thank goodness!). It still blows my mind that almost 3 years have flown by. I fall more in love with him every day. He has shown me that he was exactly the man he promised me he was, and he tells me that I’ve done the same... granted you won’t catch him telling the world all his mushy feelings - those he saves mainly for me. We encourage each other and strive to be what we hope from the other. We have traveled, jumped off a building, and then out of a plane, lived together, raised an ADORABLE kitten, fallen IN LOVE with each of our families, and even QUARANTINED for 6 weeks together! Now, for our best adventure yet - WE'RE GETTING MARRIED! Let’s celebrate!