We're getting married!

We were on a trip in Cabo, Mexico with my best friends from college. We had spent the entire day on the catamaran and then headed back to our rooms to get ready for a nice dinner as a group. When we headed down to the restaurant to wait for our friends, Joey had said, "hey let's go down to the beach while we wait." I didn't make it very easy for him. It took a lot of persuading for him to get me to go down there, because I was ready to eat! I finally walked down on the beach with him. We were holding hands when all of a sudden he started turning to face me. He began telling me how much he couldn't live without me and how he wanted to spend forever together, he got down on one knee, and asked! All of a sudden I could hear all of my friends screaming from the hotel and people applauding. It was truly the most exciting and happiest day of my life!

In December of 2011 I (Sam) was visiting home from graduate school in New York. My friends and I decided to go to one of the local bars, some of you may remember, Grazie's? Yes. This was the first place we met (the second place was even worse). Anyway, I spotted Joey and couldn't take my eyes off of him. And with a little bit of liquid courage I marched up to him and introduced myself. It ended with Joey getting my number, texting a little, but we never met up. In fact I thought it was pointless to even respond since I was going back to New York in a week (and also sober). Life for both Joey and I went on in separate parts of the country. Until summer of 2012 (best summer ever!). I eventually moved home from New York. One Sunday my friend and bridesmaid, Alicia asked me to go out on the boat. There had been a guy that had asked her to go and of course she didn't want to go alone. I said yes of course. As we were walking up to the boat and began recognizing who was on there, I felt my face flush and butterflies swarm in my stomach. There was Joey. So I bounced over and wriggled myself right next to him and said, "member me?" Joey smiled that same bashful, dreamy smile he gave me the first time we met. We spent everyday that summer getting to know each other, and that's why it was the best summer ever. <3