Once upon a time I was five and in kindergarten. One day I told this cute little boy named Max that I was going to marry him someday when we were all grown up. He said no because I had cooties and that was the end of that. After that year, we were both home schooled and knew of each other over the years but were not friends. When we were 15 we were in drivers-ed together and struck up a bit of a friendship after that and began to hangout in friend groups for the next year or so. Then by December of 2015 we were together and have been ever since.
We were taking family pictures with his family and at the end the photographer took a few picture of Max and me. She did a few different prompts to get more of a candid reaction out of us. For the last one we were standing facing each other with my hands in his. She told me to close my eyes and told Max to think about the thing he loved the most about me and when he was ready he was supposed to squeeze my hands. I closed my eyes and when I felt my hands squeezed i opened my eyes he was down on one knee and then he asked me to marry him.