Dustin and I had spoken via Snapchat and texting but never in person. For some crazy reason he agreed to be my date to a wedding (of whom he knew no-one other than Mike). He drove 5 hours from Philly to New York for the rehearsal dinner. I was a bridesmaid which meant he would be alone for a good portion of the rehearsal and wedding day, yet that didn't stop him. He hung with one of my best friends Diane all day and they hit if off instantly. Him and I clicked like I never imagined. The weekend went amazing and I knew I needed to find a way to keep him in my life. The following weekend I drove to Philly to validate my commitment to him that I wanted to make us work.

This is the day that I moved from my home in Massachusetts into Dustins house in Philadelphia. After a year of doing long distance, him driving 5 hours after shift at 3 am every month for sometimes less than 48 hours. Or myself driving down to see him for a few days while I binged Netflix while he kept the streets safe. We knew we loved one another. We just needed to change the distance. With him being a police officer, the only option was for me to get reciprocity as a nurse and take a leap of faith. I was about to start graduate school, I moved 5 hours away from my family and everything I knew, I was starting a new job and now had to adjust living with someone else. Yet despite all of the change in such a short time we adjusted together, and made it work!

We love Sage Hibachi restaurant at Patriot Place. This was the first place I took Dustin together when he visited me for the first time! So naturally, every time we are visiting my family we go here for dinner one of the nights. Well this Saturday we decided to go. We called ahead and made a reservation. We had some time to kill so I said lets go to Off Broadway to look at shoes because why not, it was that or Ulta so he agreed quickly. He seemed off, antsy, pacing around and just looked miserable. I assumed he was just hangry - totally feasible. We start to drive up to Sage, and the song Marry Me by Bruno Mars came on (very ironic...little did I know) and I started to sing and he just looked at me in disbelief. He jokingly said, who sings this song, like he always does when I sign and when I say Bruno Mars he says alright leave it to the professionals and smirks. I pull into the parking spot and get out of the car and start to walk to the restaurant quickly assuming he is starving. He yells for me to hold up and I stop and turn around. In between two random parked cars in the parking lot of Patriot Place, I see Dustin on one knee. I laugh and say youre doing this now?! here?! and he laughed and said yes. No sappy speech, long winded story, no hesitation. He looks at me and says, "so will you?" I laugh and say yes. He hands me the box and says here you go and kisses me on the forehead. It was the dream ring, from the dream place I casually kept sending him hints of on instagram! It was stunning and perfect and I couldn't believe it was real. we called our parents and close friends instantly and completely forgot about how the oblivious patrons in Saga were waiting for our arrival. Eventually we head inside but due to excitement and nervous neither can eat. We take it to go and head back home to just soak it all in.

We are registered on the Zola, Honeyfund and Bed Bath & Beyond! If you click the registry tab at the top you will be brought directly to the Zola Registry. Then there will be links at the top of that registry to the others; or simply go to the main page of any of the websites to search our names in their registry logs!