(Told By Alicia) We first met in January 2006 at our best friend’s Jasmine & Jamarious house. I believe it was the day after New Years. We grew up in the same neighborhood but we had never spoken to each other until then. We were all hanging out in the living room talking. A couple of other friends and I were being silly and began coloring in a coloring book. Kendrick mentioned that his birthday was coming up so the picture that I colored, I gave it to him as a birthday gift. I told him he better not throw it away! lol So a couple of days go by and I send him a text(don't ask how I got his number lol) The text says Happy Birthday! and do you still have my picture? He responded with Thank You and that the picture was hanging on his door. I thought that was so sweet but I didn't believe it lol.Then he sent me a picture & there it was, taped to his bedroom door(: So the conversation kept going and going and never stopped! Hours turned into Days, Days turned into Weeks and Weeks turned into Months! We truly became Best Friends! After 10 full months of just being friends, we started catching feelings and became boyfriend and girlfriend on 11.29.06 ! Kendrick is my first everything!! First Boyfriend and First Kiss. I loved everything about him. He made me feel beautiful and wanted. He was respectful from the very beginning. I was a little shy at first but as time went on I became more of myself around him . Everything he was then, he still is Now and Better!! We help each other grow , we’ve been through and seen it all. Our love has done nothing but become stronger for one another. We cant go a day without talking each other! He is my rock, my ride or die and my bookie baby. We are specially #MAYED4EACHOTHER.

(Told By Kendrick) The day I asked my best friend to marry me did not go as planned. We had it all set up perfectly me, and my friend Lakesha (iTravelista) planned a group cruise to Nassau, Bahamas. Lakesha told me she had a plug at a local resort in the Bahamas (Breeze Resort) so the plan was to set up an all white party. The all white party was going to be at the resort. As the departure for our cruise grew nearer we heard news of a tropical storm with a path heading straight to the Caribbean headed to the United States. This storm turned into Hurricane Matthew that struck Nasssau October 6, 2016 ten days before Alicia's Birthday October 16 and the same day we was scheduled to set sail to the Bahamas. This caused our cruise to be rerouted to Turks and Caicos. We had to adjust our plans so instead of an all white engagement party we changed plans to take a group picture on the beautiful beaches of Turks and Caicos. The day of the proposal was perfect the sand was white and soft the ocean water was so blue and clear it looked just like the color blue you would color on pictures when you was in grade school. We found a great spot on the beach to take the picture with the cruise ship directly behind us. Everybody in the group was in on the proposal me and the group photographer signaled to each other after we took the group picture. I was so nervous I played the proposal over and over the days leading up to it but being in that moment was a feeling I could never have imagine. I grabbed her hand took one knee in the white beach sand while reaching in my pocket to grab the ring with my other hand looked up into her eyes and the rest is history. I proposed to Alicia Burgin on October 18, 2016 she made it the best day of my life by saying YES!