Christian and I met at The Pub in Mercato, of all places. I was hesitant to go out that night, but I listened to my friend, Bruna, when she said "who knows, what if you meet 'the one' tonight?" Turns out she was right. Through a friend of a friend, we were introduced and the rest was history.

Christian flew down from Knoxville to Naples to surprise me, all while under the pretense that he was working on-call at UT Medical (he's never worked on-call, I should've suspected something). The next morning, I was supposed to be going to lunch with my best friend, Kimmy and her family, but instead we took a spontaneous trip to the Naples Botanical Garden. There, Christian was waiting to get down on one knee, with all my family watching from a distance.