Our story begins like they all do, at a coffee shop. Lonnie and I went on a very awkward first date 4 years ago at a local coffee shop where Lonnie tried to seem like the “cool” dude by saying Jaws was his favorite movie and that he only drinks black coffee(I froth his creamer every morning now) and I couldn’t stop panic talking about my love taxidermy. We both agreed to keep it casual and “chill”, played it very cool…and then just never stopped hanging out basically every day since. Oops. We fell in love over a shared appreciation of spooky movies, burgers, dancing to vinyl and long walks around the block where I babble about aliens and dark matter and Lonnie sweetly listens and nods. But we stayed in love over the appreciation of how the other shows compassion, a willingness to grow with the times, grace and endless admiration for each other and the Simpsons…we watch a lot of the Simpsons. We also bonded over our social anxiety and general hate of crowds, hence a lot of Simpsons watching. We often enjoy throwing a baseball around, frisbee, camping, board games( also arguing over board games and going to bed mad), cooking big meals, watching old movies, bowling on Sunday mornings, crafting and ghost hunting. We feel really lucky that we’ve found a great friendship in our relationship, a never ending sleepover with your bestfriend kind of situation. So a lot of laughs, late night kitchen snacks, adventures and frankly blood sweat and tears (the Covid years…amiright…) later…we’re finally deciding we might like each other on a more permanent level. Lonnie knows my heart and soul entirely and proposed in the most perfect way. With my dream ring, in the middle of a mossy forest, on an island, just the two of us…and by propose I mean he got down on one knee and in a panicky voice said “marriage?” and a few weeks later I uno reversed proposed with a pie. We both said yes. So with that dear friends, is the spark notes version of why we’d love to celebrate with you! We wouldn’t be here without the outpouring of love and guidance from those we hold closest to us.