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In 2021, I was in college for accounting and I started hating it. I felt like I was going crazy in the way that you do when you’re in your early 20s trying to figure out what you want to do with your life. I decided I would try out this Muay Thai gym in Severna Park to see if that would help (even though there was a location closer to me I just didn’t want to run into people I knew so so didn’t embarrass myself). Turns out that was the best decision I could’ve made. I wanted to make friends and have somewhere to go during the week after class. Fortunately, I found that and a lot more. I remember looking around the room in my first class trying to figure out if I was the sweatiest person in the room, and then I saw Christopher. Not only was he making me feel a lot better about sweating my ass off, he was really cute. So cute that I was plotting a mastermind scheme to make him fall in love with me in 3 months. Turns out he had other plans. We partnered up at my second class and he asked for my number. After our first date, we were pretty inseparable. He was very romantic and a big sweetheart. Our first few months of dating felt like something out of a Hallmark movie. He asked me to be his girlfriend a month later and then another month after that said he was moving back to New Jersey. This sucked because at the time, I hated New Jersey, and we were going to do long distance. I promised that we would make it work until it doesn’t, allowing us to explore our relationship with no pressure. The distance wasn’t far but traveling can be strenuous. However, that didn’t stop us from seeing each other every weekend. Everything in our relationship has felt so natural and easy. We really found a strong connection off the bat and it’s something we’re building on everyday. Christopher has always been someone I can rely on and he brings out the best in me. While planning the wedding, I felt a pull to pick this date, but wasn’t sure why. Turns out it’s the 5 year anniversary of our first date, which I think is a really sweet coincidence. I can’t wait to celebrate our love! <3

We were both living in Maryland at the time. We met at a Muay Thai Gym called Crazy 88. I have been going to the gym for roughly a year then. One day I saw this beautiful girl and I kept periodically looking at her throughout the whole class. We ended up doing a little chit-chatting with another classmate and her. Just casual initially, talking about how this class is so hard and whatnot. I went home, and she periodically popped into my mind. I know I definitely wanted to see her again. So I went to the class, eager to see her, hopefully. I think I remember possibly telling her what days I went to class at the time. I got there, and sure enough, there she was. Coincidentally, we ended up being partners for the first time in the second class. Throughout the class I could not stop looking at her and smiling. After that class I decided to ask for her number. We started talking in the first week of November of 2021. One Saturday we spent all day playing video games together and talking online. She was so much fun to talk to. I asked her if she wanted to go get sushi later and she agreed. This was our first date it was just a small sushi restaurant but, it was a start. A month goes by and at that time I was working down in the University of Viriginia. I asked her to come down to hang out with me. She was still living in maryland at the time which now realizing is an insane ask of me. She came down and we got tacos at the main strip of Charlottesville. I decided to show her where my jobsite was and at that moment in University of Virginia right outside my jobsite, right next to a large statue of a man, I asked her to be my girlfriend. As we progressed, Kacie early on when we were dating would always use this phrase "We will make it work, until it doesn't." Early on I hated when she would say that because I always felt so headstrong into whatever I committed myself to and would commit 100% all the time with no reflection on my own self. However, this phrase now is something I reflect on and realize having that no pressure mindset is how this all came to be. Our first date was November 14, 2021. By accident our first date as a married couple will be November 14, 2026. To me it is a poetic ending and beginning of one chapter to the next.