We met back in 8th grade at Clarence Middle School. It wasn't until early 2011, when Tom commented on a picture of Kara's first love, TomDog, that we became close friends. "Your dog's name is Thomas?!" was the start of a beautiful friendship that we never saw coming. It only took us about 7 years of extremely bad timing to see that our friendship would eventually turn into our love story. Once we got our timing right, things began to fall into place for us - Tom (the human) and TomDog became the best of friends, we added our Chocolate Charlie to the family, and quickly realized we found forever together. We took a road trip to Virginia Beach for a dance competition, where Tom decided he was going to propose! It went a little something like this.... Tom: "Kara, Do you know how much I love you?" Kara: "On a scale of 1 to 10...." [turns around and Tom is on one knee!!] Tom: "I'd say a little more than a 10" We can't wait to spend forever together and we are so excited to share our wedding day with all of the people who mean the most to us!!