We're getting married!

Claire and Allison both swiped right! For those who don't know what that means, it means that Claire and Allison met each other on a dating app. Allison was the first to message Claire, Claire and Allison think Allison said something about Claire's picture of her Pride makeup with the zipper glued down her face that she had on her profile, but neither know exactly what was said. Claire and Allison messaged each other on the dating app and later texted from November 2017 through January 2018. Claire and Allison wanted to meet up sooner, but unfortunately the timing just did not work out. For the first date, Allison crashed Claire and Crosby's (one of Claire's bridesmaids!) friendship date to the Women's March. When Claire and Allison showed up to the Women's March and Claire introduced Allison to Crosby. Crosby was completely unaware that this was the first date! Crosby learned that Allison was not just a friend when Claire and Allison kissed in front of the White House. After the Women's March, Claire and Allison were both starving and one of them suggested that they go to Taco Bell, and at that point Claire and Allison knew they were a match (just kidding, but they had an amazing first date and knew that they wanted to keep seeing each other).

Claire and Allison started thinking about buying a house in August 2018 when Allison moved in with Claire (and Crosby). Claire and Allison were sending each other listings from Zillow and Redfin that they liked, half of which were waaaayyyy out of their price range. Claire and Allison found the house they ended up buying in September, but they were not serious about buying a house quite yet. When they eventually saw the house in person, Claire and Allison knew it was the one. They saw three houses after it and none compared. After Claire and Allison closed on their house, the first thing they did was move their mattress in. They could only get it up to the living room so on their first night in the house, Claire and Allison ate lasagna on flimsy paper plates, drank wine out of red solo cups, and slept on their mattress in the living room. It was nothing short of magical.

Allison proposed to Claire at Allison's parents' lake house (yes, the one we are getting married at). We were down at the lake to have a low-key New Year's Eve, but, little did Claire know, Allison had called Claire's family to tell them that she was going to propose to Claire. They made a nice steak dinner and after eating, Allison suggested that they go down to the lake to look at the water. Claire said no because it was so cold but Allison persisted and both got bundled up in layers of over-sized sweats and headed to the water. Down by the water is a little lamp post, and once they were under the light, Allison took Claire by the hand and got down on one knee and asked the love of her life to marry her. Claire was so overwhelmed at first, she started crying and forgot to say yes! It was exactly the reaction Allison expected and she softly reminded Claire that she didn't actually say yes yet and Claire said "absolutely yes!"

Even though they were already engaged, Claire still wanted to propose to Allison. She had a whole elaborate day planned that started with Allison picking through four different envelopes that said what we were doing on the card. Unfortunately, her plans were severely foiled because of the snow storm which made it very difficult to drive anywhere. Claire decided to wing it and ask Allison to go on a walk in the snow. After walking around for awhile, Claire gave Allison the envelope that said "If you're feeling loved..." and the card said "Be my Queen?" and Claire got down one on knee and asked Allison to marry her. Allison said yes!