Our story is an interesting one, but I wouldn't change a single thing about it. So here's the tea. Evan and I originally met when we were both attending Timothy Ministries. We didn't really talk until this girl we mutually knew of put us in a group chat, Evan and I lost contact after high school and I would periodically stalk him on social media to see how he was doing. We reconnected when I was moving out of my apartment and I saw him skating in a beanie from the corner store and my first thought was "ooh he cute I didn't know cute people lived here" my second thought was "I think that's Evan from High School." I looked him up on instagram and noticed it had been cleared out, so I slid into his dms and we exchanged numbers and caught up on the last 4 years of our lives, we had apparently been living right next door to each other for almost two years and our paths just hadn't crossed. This turned into a 2 hour long argument about what the best flintstone vitamin flavor is (obviously pink) and after talking for hours I invited him to come see my friends band with me, where I showed up in an ACDC tee-shirt, fishnets and Doc Martens. After that I realized he easily made any event ten times more fun, and pretty soon we were hanging out every weekend. We started slowly spending most of our time together even becoming gym buddies. One horrible night on St. Patrick's Day 2023 we had hit one misfortunate event after the other and after finally throwing in the towel, Evan told me his feelings for me and I spent the next hour laying out all the things I looked for in a relationship and that I was dating for marriage. Evan told me he wanted that life with me and all of my messy abnormal baggage that came with me. He loved me and saw me for everything that I am and our relationship has been beautiful ever since. We learned how to navigate our traumas and triggers and have difficult conversations to resolve conflict and I truly believe it made us stronger. I knew I wanted to marry him from our first "date" grocery shopping at Sams club, when he compared the prices of rice. I wouldn't have it any other way he's my best friend and always will be. -Riess My side of the story is pretty straight forward, Riess had messaged me on instagram and I didn't respond to her message until 3 months later. We started talking and instantly started having some of the best conversation I had had in a long time. We had been talking for hours and I can't remember a day I didn't want to talk to them. After arguing about which flintstone vitamin is the best (orange), we started seeing each other every weekend and there were a few times I faked forgetting if we had plans or not that weekend so that I could make plans to see her again. After a few months of becoming gym buddies and going to concerts together I finally started to lay the ground work and had them come over to the aforementioned apartment so I could make the "marry me" pasta after she had a rough week. When we decided to go out on the infamous night of St. Patrick's day 2023, after one of the worst nights out I finally confessed my feelings for them. I've never met anyone that shared the same passions for music, cooking, and over all silly goose behavior. She has always made me feel seen, and heard with my emotions and supported me in all my endeavors. This isn't your average love story but its ours and I'll be happy to call it that for the rest of my life, it also makes for great Dad lore. - Evan