We met on Reddit. Fabian posted a personal ad in a dating subreddit, and I answered it. It took me three hours to compose my short response, and I was so nervous about not getting a response! We had so much in common from the very beginning. Even though we had just met, we felt like we had known each other for years. When he proposed only a few months later, it was very easy to say yes!

Fabian proposed during a two week trip I took up to see him in Illinois. A few days before he proposed, we went to a water park and we both got terribly sunburned. Fabian had second degree burns on his legs. When he tried to get down on one knee at Luthy Botanical Gardens in Peoria, IL, he grimaced in pain and asked me to help him up. He then switched to his other, less painful knee, and pulled a ring box from his pocket.