We're Getting Married !!

We were high school sweethearts. We found our way into the same friend group after I was invited to his surprise 15th birthday party. After that night, our friend group was inseparable. I just thought he was the goofy kid in my study period, little did I know he was going to be in my life forever. Charlie and I soon realized we wanted to be more than friends, even though all of our friends had already seen it. This year Charlie will be turning 25 and we will have been friends/known each other for 10 years and been in a relationship for 9 years.

I had a feeling that Charlie might be getting ready to ask me the big question, but he TOTALLY surprised me with his timing. His parents live in this lake community with a beautiful private beach. We decided to have a cute date day cooking down at the lakeside patio, listening to music, drinking some wine and being the silly gooses that we are. We were having such a sweet, loving day reminiscing on our relationship and everything we have been through while embracing on the beach. All of a sudden Charlie turns around and I finally see the giant box in his pocket. He gets down on one knee and I honestly cannot remember a single thing he said other than he loves me because I blacked out. I was in utter shock that the day I had dreamed about for SO long had finally arrived and, I was going to get to marry my best friend. Being the amazing man that he is, he enlisted the help from our mutual best friend from high school, who has been with us for our entire relationship. He had her hide down at the beach in order to capture the moment he asked me to be wife and then we were able to have a small little photo session to remember the emotions of the day. His parents then showed up down at the beach and surprised us with champagne. We spent the rest of the night celebrating by a fire.