We’re getting married!

I (Domonique) moved to DC in August, 2019. Looking for income, I applied to work at Apple. I used an email that I rarely check and almost missed my interview! I started working at Apple the next month and that’s how we met. I was part time and he was full time so we didn’t see a lot of each other. Fast forward to March, 2020, the pandemic hit and our store shutdown. By this time we had only had a few conversations and interacted outside of work once. By the time we got comfortable talking to each other I had already accepted a job in Phoenix and was moving in August. We kept up communication throughout the Fall and got to know each other more. When the New Year came around he decided that he wanted to pursue things more but I wasn’t ready for a long distance relationship. We stopped communicating with each other for a while until the Spring. In June we decided to make ourselves official as a couple and in January 2022 I decided to move back to the DMV to start our next chapter.

It was on our anniversary. I had spent the day workshopping with other advocates, getting ready to go on Capital Hill. He spent the day plotting. Towards the end of my day, he sent me a text to meet him at the Apple Store and he made up a story about why. As far as I knew, the plan was just a fancy dinner. I took the metro to the store, super nervous because it was hot and I didn’t feel I was looking the best despite trying to spruce up before getting on the metro. I walk in and there he was, standing in the gallery, staring at a huge blueprint. When I walked over to him we greeted each other, he started talking about “where it all started” (I still had no idea where this was going) and towards the end he said he was rambling and proceeded to pull out a box and get down on one knee. A photographer comes from out of nowhere and I couldn’t believe this was happening!