Marcelo and I met in Miami in 2010 on a friends’ vacation over the 4th of July. Both Marcelo and I were dating other people at the time. Although, after that trip we connected on Facebook, we never really chatted until 8 year later. On May 15, 2018 Marcelo added an Instagram post and I made a comment, 'Love the glasses'! From that day forward we began making plans to get together while I was in Florida traveling for business and for when he was coming to Denver for a Spartan Race. We texted every day and had our first date on June 28th, 2018 in Miami at Bayside. We had a wonderful weekend celebrating my birthday and hanging in South Beach and Wynwood. I know I knew then, that he was my forever! I came back to Florida for a week-long visit at the end of July and beginning of August. During this visit, on Friday we had dinner at Black Pointe Marina. While having dinner we had a wonderful chat and Marcelo told me he really liked how things were going, but ‘want to take things slow’. I was a bit deflated, but we now laugh at this as there has been no slow here! He came to Colorado for a Spartan race a few weeks later and then about a month later while I was in Florida visiting, he asked me to move in. I moved to Florida at the beginning of November. We have done 3 OCR races, been to Colorado for Thanksgiving, been to Cancun, California, Europe, and Chicago and have had a beautiful year of making amazing memories! We are looking forward to a lifetime of so many more wonderful memories! <3 It has been a beautiful year and we can't wait to share our wedding day with all of our wonderful friends and family! #Reyesonthefuture2020

Our Anniversary was Friday June 28,2019 from our first date. I had planned a surprise dinner at Smith's and Wollensky in South Beach for Saturday evening and Marcelo told me he had a surprise as well. On Thursday he had to tell me part of his surprise as he had booked us a room in South Beach for the weekend and knew I needed to pack. We were going to do a 'Staycation' at the beach and pool. Marcelo got home from work on Friday and I gave him his gifts so he didn't have to carry them to and from the hotel as one was our picture frame with images of us and it would have been difficult to carry to hotel and back. The other, a pair of Maui Jim sunglasses as I felt it appropriate since the comment on Instagram 'Love the glasses' is what brought us back together and the dinner for S&W. He then proceeded to tell me that he has a gift to give me at the hotel as well and said 'you outdid me'. We left to go to the hotel and it was raining. We got to the hotel and checked in. After switching rooms as the one they gave us didn't have a balcony, I was outside and he asked me to come in to open my birthday/anniversary gifts. I read the card and proceeded to open the first gift. Then before the 2nd gift he got his phone and read me his very sweet words as he sat on his knees beside me. He asked me to Marry him and well.. I SAID YES! We were so gitty the rest of the weekend and immediately started planning our wedding and our forever! It is truly amazing when you find the right one and I at times didn't think it would ever happen for me. But every day of every moment I am so blessed to have Marcelo by my side!