We’re getting Married!

Devin and I met our Freshman year of high school. Although, I was instantly in love, Devin was too cool for school and we didn't really talk much. That year went by quickly, we didn't speak all summer and then first day of Sophomore year came and I walk into my History class and there he was. He sat toward the center of the room and barely glanced up. Thankfully a mutual friend asked him to come sit with us and we instantly became friends. We were always in the hallways goofing off (he thought he was the funniest guy and I had such a big crush that I laughed at everything he said). At the end of that year I transferred schools and our friendship came to pretty much a full stop. Then randomly we started sending snapchats to each other again until one day I was at the laundromat and he was at the store next door so he came in to say hi. I looked a MESS but we laughed and joked around until he had to go. I was so happy to have seen him lol. We started texting everyday again. By Senior year we were spending hours on the phone and texting nonstop. Devin would ask me EVERY DAY to hang out and I would say “sorry, I have homework” or “sorry, Im busy studying”. Realistically I knew there was not a chance my mom was letting me go hang out with this boy. Until finally around June of 2017, a few days after Devin graduated, we went to the mall together. We shopped, and got food at the food court, then sat and waited for a bus while looking up at this building that had these weird blue lights going up and down it. We sat there silently for a few minutes just enjoying the moments together and I realized that crush hadn’t gone anywhere. We spent every single day together that Summer. Devin walked to my job, Subway, every day or would borrow someone's car just to come get a sandwich. Hed then sit at my job while I worked for hours just so we could go for a drive together afterwards. He made these playlists and we’d get so hyped when our favorites to sing along to would play. Even on days where I had to go straight home, he’d sit on my moms porch with me for hours. We genuinely had so much fun together. Years went by like this, just two best friends secretly falling in love and denying it to ourselves, each other and just about any adult who would ask. By January 2019 we made it official. A few months after that (July 7, 2019) we moved into our first apartment together. We lived upstairs from his mom in a small attic apartment. We had no idea what we were doing and no idea how to adjust to living with another person in the way that we did. We figured it out. From day one we learned how to work through any and every life change and major adjustment. Together. Then we got Apollo. Our first baby. And that was a whole other major life change that we werent prepared for. But we figured it out. We parented our little puppy together. We had a little family. Eventually after two years of living room slumber parties, and target trips, and late night drives we left our little apartment and the safety of having family right downstairs. Our next apartment taught us how to be functional adults in a way that our first hadn’t prepared us for. We got Phoenix in that apartment. We got engaged in that apartment. We hosted a Christmas brunch and New Years Eve gathering in that apartment. We packed up and left our lives in Rhode Island after that apartment. Now, here we are about two years into our Georgia life with a third baby, Sadie. 11 years of friendship, 5 years of dating, 2 years engaged, 3 fur babies, and 4 apartments later. We have lived and loved each other through a thousand versions of ourself. We are committing to love a thousand more. And we are so happy that you all will be there to witness as we bind ourselves in this promise before God.