Zach and I grew up a street over from each other. We shared a bus route for awhile and went to all of the milestone grade schools together. We did not talk a lot as young kids, that is, until 8th grade when we started dating. We even went to our 8th grade grad dance together. We shared a few classes but did not talk much through high school. I reached out in the middle of college to reconnect. Something just drew me back to him, I couldn't explain it. We stayed very close over the years until we both finally decided to give in and we have been inseparable since. We are so excited for September 18th. We've waited a long time for this!

Every Wednesday a group of our friends gets together for food. If someone has a birthday near that time, they get to pick the location. Zach's birthday was the Monday, so he picked the Chateau. He had planned with my sister and one of my closest friends. Zach planned with them to ask me if he could choose the restaurant location, and had also planned that he would ask me if we could take a picture with the group that night to finish our picture frame that has empty spots. This was huge, as he is not a super mushy guy. Of course i text my sister to tell her that I think he has been replaced by an Alien look alike. We get to the restaurant and i see a ton of our friends there, we make it all the way through dinner and walk outside to see its snowing. Im freezing my fingers off and this guy decides to ask everyone for a group picture. I'm not sure whats going on at this point but hes looking at me like hes about to be sick and my sister lost all ability to blink. He looked at me and blurted out "this is not a joke, will you marry me?" while he gets down on one knee in front of a bunch of our friends. I of course said yes, and I proceed to ask him 6 more times if it was a joke. I come to find out that my parents, his parents and a few others were all in on it. I had no idea. A lot of planning went into this and I am so grateful!