'TIll Death Do Us Part

Our story begins the day Casey asked me to prom. It was a Tuesday afternoon in April, when I get a phone call from Casey to come outside because he had a surprise. Upon coming outside, I find him standing next to his burgundy van. As I approached the van, he opens the back sliding door to reveal ice cream cookies with icing that spell out 'P R O M ?' on them and a single pink rose. I was ecstatic and surprised to say the least. At this point we were friends and had been talking on KIK fairly regularly but I never thought in a million years he actually liked me like that. Fast forward to the actual day of prom. I remember feeling so grateful and lucky to have the most handsome boy at prom. We had a wonderful night with all of our friends making memories we will have for the rest of our lives. Even though we had such a great night at prom, it took Casey another week to actually ask me to be his girlfriend *eye roll.* Since that day nine years ago, him and I have been through quite a lot of ups and downs. He was there with me cheering me on when we graduated, he was there with me as we traveled by ourselves for the first time, he was right by my side the day I lost my best friend, and he has been there for me every day since. Over the years, we have gotten two cats together and he even let me adopt his cat he got on his 16th birthday as my own son. We have had a few apartments together throughout the years, supported each other through different career choices, and now we officially own my childhood home together. I know I cannot go through every detail of our relationship over the last 9 years or this story would be quite long but most importantly we are finally engaged and are actually getting married. I know we are not having the most traditional wedding but it is OUR wedding and it is going to be as unique as our relationship. I am so happy to be with my best friend now and forever and I am so happy to celebrate our lives and future with the people we love the most. Whether you can make it or not we are grateful to have you in our lives helping us write each page of our story. I know some of the people who helped write our story cannot be here physically today because they have passed on but we know they will always be with us in spirit. We could not do any of this without you and your support. We love you all more than we can express in words. Thank you 1000000x.