We’re getting married!

I remember meeting Oscar through mutual friends and thinking he was a nice guy. A nice guy. That’s it. He would smile at me {a lot} and one day snuck his number into my phone by taking a picture of me with some of our friends and saying he 'needed to send it to me'. A few days later, over text, he asked me to have coffee with him at Tierra Mia Coffee Co. and l jokingly thought to myself, "what’s the harm? I love coffee!" I told him I would meet him there but that it wasn’t a date. I spent a significant amount of energy communicating that I was not romantically interested in him. He laughed and said “That’s fine, I just want to have coffee with you!” We sat at the very corner of the coffee shop next to ceiling to floor glass windows. He smiled the entire time. I not only rambled on about my on goings but I also kept getting distracted by everything happening outside. By the end of the ‘date not date’ I said thank you for the coffee and started to walk away and I told him I hoped to see him around. Oscar says he walked away thinking ‘I’m going to marry that girl.’ The weeks went by and after a few more 'date not dates turned actual dates’, I got to know Oscar and learned that his priorities were God and his mom and grandmother. I learned that he was compassionate, sweet, generous, humble, patient, kind... and smelled really good... like Dolce & Gabbana ;) After 5 months, Oscar said ‘Te amo’ and called me his best friend. I realized then, this was the sweetest friendship I had ever had and never, ever wanted to let it go. Oscar said he loved that my faith and my family were important to me and that my values mirrored his. I started to see that this friendship was tailor made; from the moment we first met to navigating joys and losses together, God made it very clear that we were meant for one another. Saying yes to coffee on that 'date not date' is the best decision I've ever made. Oscar is my forever best friend, and I can not wait to be his wife!