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Miwa & Nakoa

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Nakoa

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Miwa

December 20, 2025

Kailua Kona, HI
117 days117 d21 hours21 h37 minutes37 min

How we met!

Miwa's version: Our love story began in our Japanese class in high school. I always stayed within my friend group and never made eye contact with people I didn't know, but this all changed when a random boy started saying "Hi" to me every single day, nothing more, nothing less. I soon noticed that we had a few classes next to each other, and I would see him often. Curiosity slowly got to me, and I started asking my close friends in class if they could help me figure out who he was. I had no clue where to start because I had never seen him before, but I did have one hint that would help me, and that was a recent friend request that I received on Instagram. We then found out that he was only a few seats away! Which I would never have guessed because he never spoke to me in class. Even though I finally found out the identity of this boy, I never did anything about it. All of this went on for a few weeks until one day I never got the "Hi" like usual. I got curious and sent him a DM. A simple message of "were u in close contact with someone with covid?" (This message took about 30 minutes of rethinking, screaming, and many pep talks from my besties to send). He replied HOURS later, but the conversation between us flowed, and I started liking him just a little, which was a weird first feeling for me. We ended up bonding over a stupid gatcha game and talking to each other until 6 in the morning. Some time passed and Nakoa had asked to meet me because he was in town for his friend's birthday. We met at a "special" place where he asked me to take off my mask because, although we had been seeing each other for a few weeks, I was too scared he would think I was too ugly without my mask. After hours of arguing, I took my mask off, and Nakoa told me that I looked prettier without my mask on. At that moment, I knew he was the one for me. Since then, he has never left my side from long-distance dating to big life changes, and no matter how much attitude or emotions I went through, he always comforted me. He is my rock, my love, and my life, so when he got down on one knee in Japan, I did not think twice. Nakoa's Version (The Real Version): It was one of the first few weeks of school. Just when COVID was pau. Business as usual, go class and all of that. It was in Japanese class; I looked up across the classroom and had seen this girl with green hair. I never did see that before, so I was little bit like "WTH" but not a mean way. She had me hook, line, and sinker already. I knew I had to do something at least so I began just saying, "Hi" to her. That was pretty much all I did, confidence did NOT exist. HOWEVER, fast forward a few weeks and I got sent home for COVID contact. I was all mad, after all that was the day I was going spark up one conversation. I got home and went straight to sleep. A few hours later, I woke up, checked my phone. BOOM. She sent me a message. Brah I was all panicking. All she had asked me was if I was in contact with someone with COVID. I said "Yes." but I knew this was my chance. And I chanced um. 🤙Next thing I knew, everyday I messaged with her for hours. Mean kine. Eventually I returned to school and now I had one more big step. Talking to her in person. Text is one thing but BUURAAH. In person was crazy. I worked up the courage and we began talking. After plenty dates and getting to know her. I knew I wanted to be her boyfriend. We went to a nice place at nighttime. Talk about perfect setting, stars was bright, no clouds. Perfect. I asked her, she said yes and that was that. Plenty time passed and we were going Japan. I knew that was the perfect time to ask her. After all, I knew she was the woman I wanted to be with forever.

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