We're getting married!

The story of Meg and Brett is a Love Story for the AGES...mostly because it took them AGES to get together! Brett had a thing for Meg for a long time but she didn't want to date. Not him, not anybody! But she liked him too. Brett was willing to give her some space, which wound up being quite a bit of space. More space than he felt was reasonable BUT! he is a patient man. So patient all of his friends thought he was insane. In fact, from the time they knew they liked each other until the time Meg let Brett buy her coffee and a pastry was 19 months, to the day. So they hung out in groups and planned activities with their friends they knew the other one would attend and they made sure the time they were sort-of-together-but-not-quite was time well spent and they got to know each other really well, and see what kind of person they were. And they did a lot of growing. And they got an idea of what they were getting themselves into. Still, it was a long 19 months. There were very few phone text messages, fewer phone calls. A lot of time spent growing together, apart. But you know what? When you know you've found someone really special and you despair of ever finding someone like them again, you hold on to that person and you stay the course and you keep the faith. Brett proposed at the Getty Villa on Black Friday, 2017, and Meg totally saw it coming, but she still cried. Brett's sister Christina, who was carrying a suspiciously large purse that day, captured the whole thing in pictures. This all happened in Los Angeles, which is a wonderful place for stories. Later, Brett moved to the Bay Area for no great reason (a job) and Meg stayed in LA for similar reasons. And guess what? It still worked out. Brett's moving back and Meg is on to better things and soon they'll be married and living together, which is alarming to both of them.