Michael and Colleen met through a dating application. Colleen noticed that Michael had put that he was looking for "something series" (instead of serious) in his biography and knew she had to meet him. They exchanged numbers and talked back and forth for a few days before deciding to meet for coffee. Colleen showed up 15 minutes early and to the wrong location the day they were meeting. Michael called her and calmly explained where he was while she nervously drove to him. They were both in shock when they finally laid eyes on each other. Both say the other was better looking than they had expected from the pictures. They each had a coffee while Colleen talked Michael's ear off until the coffee shop closed. She couldn't tell if he liked her because he had been so quiet, but when he walked her to her car, he went in for their first kiss. They both knew this was something special from that first night.

When it comes to our relationship, things have always gone a little differently for us. Never quite as smoothly as it does for others, but unique and memorable every time. Our first "I love you" was no different. Colleen wrote Michael letters after every date for the first month or so of the relationship, with the intention of giving them to him one day. The letter from August 13th describes the first time Michael met her mother, sister, brother in-law, and nephew and the exact moment she knew she was in love with him that very day. Michael had been feeling similarly, but had yet to express his feelings to Colleen, so naturally, she was nervous. Colleen had written in the letter that day that she knew Michael was "the one" and had told her mom so. A few days later, Colleen couldn't hold it in any longer and told Michael those magical three little words and gave him her letters from their first month of dating. Michael had been planning on telling Colleen he loved her, but didn't know when the right timing would be, and with an impatient girlfriend, she beat him to it. He had been asking his closest friends and family when the right time would be to tell her, so it turns out the timing was perfect.