Our story begins way back when Charlie and I were just kids. You see, his parents live next door to my dads cousin and my family used to have big Easter parties there every year and of course a BIG Easter egg hunt! Charlie and I grew up fighting over Easter eggs, picking on each other as well as fighting over how gross boys/ girls were, pushing each other in pools and showing off our trampoline skills, but mostly with us girls wanting to hang out with the boys and the boys ditching us and leaving us behind. Fast forward to January of 2015 when I went to the frog leg festival. I was with my friend and I kept seeing Charlie everywhere that night, he looked familiar so we went up and talked to him. The next day when he messaged me on Facebook, he told me where he lived and I realized that he lived next door to my “aunt and uncle” and we knew each other as kids.

It was the second day on our vacation at the hard rock hotel & casino in Punta Cana. We all went to dinner at zen, a hibachi restaurant (I love hibachi). Earlier that day Charlie had told me he was going to get a guitar in the main lobby, which is actually when he went and bought the ring! He came back upset because they ran out of guitars (again) so he let it go and we got ready for dinner. We got to the table and he didn’t sit, instead he said he had an announcement, he asked me to stand up (I thought he was going to embarrass me for my birthday) and that he had an important question for me, then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!