We're finally getting married!

KIM: I was at a get together when I noticed an unfamiliar face, one of which was a guy with dreads standing in the kitchen talking to my cousin. Little did I know, I was one of the topics in their conversation! (you can read about it below). I guess you can say that it was love at first sight for Joe. I went about finding my friends and sat down. Then, there comes Joe, who migrated from the kitchen to standing right in front of my view. I'm not sure if he was trying to get noticed, but all I could think about was the messy looking dreads. Once I was able to mentally look pass the hair, I was able to form some first impressions. My initial thoughts were this guy seemed loud, his hair was a big question mark, but giving him the benefit of the doubt, I sense a bit of charisma in him. We didn't exchange words that day. Years later, on New Year's Eve, Joe and I met again. A person at the party saw us talking and called out "this guy likes you". I thought, there was no way, how could they have predicted Joe's true intentions from observing our brief encounter. It wasn't until years later, Joe finally mustered the courage to ask me out on a date. Of course, I declined, but it didn't stop him from trying. He kept persisting we go out, so I finally said yes and the rest was history. JOE: Once upon a time, long, long, time ago......in a land far, FAR away (San Jose), it was supposed to be just another BBQ with the group at the "Down House." Which was quite literally another delayed extension of our college days and a bachelor house. So we proceeded to get festive with the festivities, when there she was........ The Kim...... a rare and peculiar species, out of her natural habitat, rummaging about and foraging for food. I thought to myself, when does The Kim venture out into unfamiliar territories searching for sustenance? Was climate change causing her to search beyond her natural environment? Did the flora yield an unfruitful harvest? Did the fauna migrate to new feeding grounds that The Kim would have to follow? Was there an absence of handsome, stimulating, interesting, and potential mates in her environment? CLEARLY, it was the latter :) So it began.........my courtship dance.......... waving my magnificent, majestic hair, performing herculean acts of pouring her a drink, exchanging humorous banter, while even venturing out to take her to.....boba. And I don't even like boba. The courtship performance was too much to ignore, too memorable and unique, too good to disagree, and so.........she disagreed, to boba. So we settled for pho........ it was un-pho-gettable, and she became woke to the fact that I liked her. More dates ensued and almost a decade later, she's my finally my forever date!