We're so excited to celebrate with you!

From Lillian's perspective: We met in 2013 at work. Quintin had been working there for a year and ended up showing me around the place and doing my orientation. He asked about where I was from, and we found that we both attended King High School in Detroit. After that, it seems like we instantly became friends. At that time, I only saw him as a friend. Throughout the years of working together, we would get closer and eventually became closer friends that would hang out go out here and there. In 2016, he reached out to me and wanted to hang out over the summer. I had just moved into a new apartment and he got a new car. We hung out one night and I could tell that his feelings for me had changed. A week later he would take me on a date to Pinball Petes and eventually hung out with some of his friends. For the first time, we had flirted. I was still weary of dating because of our friendship. But after that, I had a dream about him that led me to believe he was the one. I remember praying and fasting over it because this was not something I took lightly. Once I felt ready, I told him I liked him and things began to go south. We talked every day while he away on drill but when he came back, he was not sure if he wanted more. I was confused and hurt and surely thought that dream was just a coincidence. But God kept saying he was the one and you will marry him. We eventually were off and on ( more off than on), and both of us were always confused about each other's feelings. When he got deployed in 2018, he was in a relationship, and I felt that a friendship was no longer serving either of us. We went back in forth about our friendship until 2019 when I said that I didn't want to be friends. So we stopped talking for a year and a half. In 2020, I wrote in a prayer journal that I wanted to be friends. Then I prayed with some friends. God didn't tell me to do anything but in October, Q reached out to me said he wanted to meet, so I agreed. After 3 months, He proposed...

I met Ms Lillian Jade Holloway in 2013 at Michigan State University as a new tutor part of the Edgewood Village Family. I vividly remember Lillian mean mugging me as I tried to introduce myself to her. She was always quiet and didn't crack a smile until we found out we both were from Detroit and went to the same high school. As friends and coworkers, we spent our work time cracking jokes at each other and would then spend our college nights studying and cracking more jokes at each other; her favorite words for me were " you irritating", "you so annoying " or "you goofy". From 2013-2016 we became close friends unknowingly growing our foundation for things to come. In 2016 Lillian and I both realized that we both lowkey had a crush on each other, however, we were both scared to act on our feelings out of fear of damaging our friendship. One night we decided to take a leap of faith and decided to date each other, lol this did not go well; in fact, after 2 weeks of attempting to date we ended things, and we both decided our friendship was lost. Until Lillian called me 2 weeks later and said "yo what you doing" and I responded with a laugh "what you want dawg" our friendship was instantly rekindled. From 2017-2018 we would start a new pattern, be mad at each other, decide we weren't friends, realize we both were being immature, and then become even greater friends. During my time in college, Lilian was the only person I could be completely honest with, completely vulnerable with, and completely at peace with. Though I felt this way I was still scared to admit this to myself. During my deployment in 2018 our friendship reached an impasse and our connection was immediately haulted. For a year and a half I lost my friend and thought that I would never see her again. Our separation allowed me to grow, to mature, and to finally comprehend my feelings for her. On Nov 2nd I was blessed to have a dream of her, not knowing the outcome I reached out to her a week later.