When we first met at a bowling alley during a mutual friend's birthday party, we couldn't possibly know we'd be getting married a little over a decade later. When we finally announced our engagement earlier this year, the common consensus was a resounding "about time!" Truth is, we fell in love before we really even knew the kind of people we would grow into as adults. We became best friends almost immediately, learning to deal with all of the situations our early 20s threw at us together. Our first three years of dating consisted of monthly 5-hour bus rides to spend weekends together and thousands of hour's worth of Skype calls. We were there for each other through the rough patches, always putting each other before ourselves and supporting any crazy endeavors we wanted to dive into. Before we knew it, we found ourselves moving in together and feeling like two halves becoming whole. Somewhere along the way things started to fall into place and as each year passed and the chaos of growing up became more manageable, the more and more things felt right. We're not the same people we were when we first met. Raul's not as cool or as skinny as he used to be. Bianca became a cat person (didn't see that one coming). We've both gone through our phases and changes. The one thing that hasn't changed? Our love for each other. A full decade later, we're still the same giddy 19-year-olds who got all giggly when we flirted with each other. So we figured, "what's a few more decades?"