I was the single girl amongst the married folk. As the epic 7th wheel, everyone kept trying to find me a man. One of the couples in my group of friends was adament and after their first setup, I was honestly not expecting much when they setup a game night so I could meet Dylan. Oh boy was I wrong. Our first date we ended up crashing a wedding, we made friends with the bride and groom, and got invited to their after-wedding bash. We both talked ahout the one place we always wanted to go: New Zealand. We danced until 4am doing the sprinkler and the disco. The next day we talked about our Meyers-Briggs personality types over coffee. He brought me a yellow rose on our first dinner-date because he remembered that I had mentioned that I liked yellow the night we met. For my birthday, he bought me an instant camera and insisted on making me have my own photo-shoot. Another time he color-coded 100 popsicle sticks for different date nights we could have( one of which was a costume party.) One summer afternoon my friend( Jennifer Maloney) picked me up and handed me a clue. Dylan had insta photos of all of the places we had our first date at, but I had to guess the place with the clue he had written before I could see the photo. The last clue led me to him and he proposed under the glow of hot air balloons. We had a sunrise hot-air balloon flight the next morning( a dream of mine to do.) Dylan personally designed my ring because I’m so indecisive. We decided to legally marry shortly after because we were worried about Dylan having to deploy or move. That was difficult for us because I still wanted an official wedding. We decided that we would still have our wedding and I woould change my name at that time. I knew I wanted to marry Dylan on our first date when we sat at Stray Cat’s and he talked for an hour about how much he wanted to be able to provide for a family one day. I’m thanking my lucky stars that I get this chance.