WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!

This isn't really a how we met story because we met and became friends a couple years before we started dating. On April 12, 2015 we ran into each other at Tortuga Music Festival and after hanging out for a few hours, there was some flirting being shared that hadn't been shared in our friendship before. One thing led to another and we shared our first kiss. After making our way back to Orlando, we went on our first date and the rest is history.

We were getting close to finishing our 5th winter in Chicago and we had our sights set on Florida. On one of our last weekends as Chicago residents, and also pleasantly one of the coldest weekends, I was able to drag Kelly into the tundra for a "brunch with friends". After parking right next to the restaurant, with help from friends, I convinced Kelly to walk with me over to the river. The river is our favorite place to hang out in the summer months, and we were walking over to meet our friends to see if it was frozen. It was 55 degrees the day before, so it most certainly wasn't frozen, but once we got most of the way to the other side of the bridge where our friends were hiding, I made the move to ask her to be my wife. Kelly and I then went to brunch just the two of us to enjoy the amazing moment together and then met everyone later that day for a Chicago Trolley celebration.