Justin and I hit it off immediately after our first date during our senior year. He made me laugh like no one else, we could talk for hours without getting bored, and I admired his caring personality, integrity, and aspirations. I knew I loved Justin within a few weeks of dating and I knew I wanted to marry him within 6 months. Our engagement started with me making fun of him for carrying a book bag and for not having much written down in this "adventure/travel" journal we were both given for graduation (a year earlier)... until I realized the little he had written was a note from graduation day (did I say a YEAR earlier), in which he poured his heart out and said he knew that day that I was the woman he wanted to marry. He just waited for the right time to ask. Justin still makes me laugh like no one else, I still love talking to him, he cares for me in every aspect of life, he is my biggest "hype man," and he makes my life easier and happier every day. I'm excited for our future. Our first, last, and greatest adventure... together.

As cool as it would be to have one of those love at first sight kinda stories...we don’t. I knew of Ellen then actually knew her for like 3 years before we started dating. In fact, I even remember before we started hanging out that I swiped right on BOTH Tinder and Bumble with Ellen and we never matched sooooooo… But eventually, after months of Tyler Morris trying to set us up, we started to hang out. I remember worrying about scaring her off, but clearly whatever I did worked (good job past Justin). On the day we graduated from Rose, as we ran around from event to event on an extremely hectic day, I knew I wanted to marry Ellen. At this point we had only been dating for 6 months, and I was worried that was too soon, too impulsive. I heard once one way to cut down on impulse spending is to force yourself to wait 24 hours after realizing you wanted something. I chose to do something similar, but at a scale that better fit the decision, I chose to wait a year. Not before I wrote a letter telling her how I felt and marking the occasion. One year later(363 days), after some scheming with the family, we faked a family event at Rose to get us all there dressed up. We successfully bamboozled Ellen into sitting by the White Chapel with me, where I showed her the note I wrote and proposed. I even asked “No take-backs?” when she said yes so she can’t change her mind. On 5/26/18 I chose to think about spending the rest of my life with this person for a whole year. Little did I know, that thought will be the one that will bring me happiness everyday for the rest of my life. Eleanor is the definition of a beautiful soul who not only makes me happier everyday, but drives me to be a better person. Thanks gorgeous, Cya at the altar ;)