Nothing fancy, just love!

Nikki and Jesse met through their very good and mutual friend Alex Guzman! Nikki and Alex met in high school and became really good friends. After Alex graduated he went straight to the Marine Corps and met Jesse, then Alex and Jesse became really good friends. One day, when Alex was back home from the Marines, he asked Nikki to hang out and asked if he could bring his Marine friend with him over to her house, she said of course, the more the merrier! That Marine friend was Jesse. Nikki and Jesse hit it off and hung out over some crawfish, beer and Alice in Chains. The two remained friends for two years before ever dating, and then one day, BOOM! Sparks just happened to fly between Nikki and Jesse and the rest is history!

It was a freezing January night in Big Bear California, Nikki and Jesse took a weekend trip up to celebrate Jesse finishing his contract with the Marine Corps. All day Jesse was acting kind of funny and Nikki had an inkling as to why but didn't want to think too much into it in case her gut feeling was wrong (it wasn't). Jesse hadn't planned for the bigger than usual crowd that was flooding Big Bear Village. Between booked up restaurants, freezing temperatures, no parking to be found and growling stomachs, the night was not going according to plan for Jesse and he was nervous. Finally Jesse and Nikki found a restaurant and were sat within minutes, what a relief! Once they both had some steak and wine in their stomachs, all of the bumps in the road from before didn't seem to matter so much. Once dinner was over Jesse was very adamant about going to the lake, to which Nikki kept replying "...but why do you want to go to the lake? It's 30 degrees, the lake is frozen!" that gut feeling growing stronger and stronger. Finally, Nikki agreed to go to the lake with Jesse and when they got there a very nervous and adorable Jesse got down on one knee and told Nikki he loved her and asked Nikki to be his wife. In shock, she threw a blanket at him and cried. Eventually she said yes and then they hugged and kissed and shivered and Nikki continued to cry, haha! It was freezing, it was beautiful and it was absolutely perfect.