Forever & Always!! We're getting married!!

Donald and I met on Tinder in October 2016. A friend of mine suggested I try online dating-Tinder. Of course at the time, Tinder was known for "hook-ups" but I didn't know that...when you sign up it said connect through facebook so I thought I would somehow and someway be connected to people from FB through the app...that wasn't the case. Either way, Tinder had an algorithm where when you match with someone, it automatically sent you a message to start the conversation. Well, me not knowing that, thought Donald sent me a message and I responded and the conversation started from there...After about a day or so, he asked if he could call me outside of the app and I said sure...(obviously lol). We set a date and met in Uptown Charlotte at one of my favorite parks and not that I would want to, but I haven't been able to shake him since!! :)

Earlier in the week, Donald asked me to go to a company picnic for his job. I didn't think anything of it, so I agreed. That morning, my friend called and asked if I was going to get my nails done and what I was wearing since it was for his job. I remember telling her that I wasn't thinking about the people at his job...I would look nice and that was it!! In hindsight, none of what she was hinting at connected. I was to meet Donald at one of our favorite restaurants at 1pm since he was already in Charlotte and we could drive to the place together. Now, anyone who knows Donald, knows his sense of direction is not good. When I got into the car, he asked me about 10 times how to literally get around the corner about 2 blocks. Needless to say, I was getting frustrated. When we get to the parking lot, I'm looking around like, ummm where is everyone. (I'm still not connecting the dots that something was up) I ask where everyone was at bc it didn't look like a picnic. No one was out at the park...He points to a building in the opposite direction from where we were going. Now...its July in the South so you know it was hot...I was getting so aggravated because I'm thinking "OMG Donald has no idea where he is going. Why are we walking in the opposite direction of the building when we could have just drove to the right parking lot". (I still didn't suspect anything, because again, directions and Donald don't always mix) He is telling me to relax and we kept walking...as we are walking we stumble upon some steps and I see pictures of us that he printed along the steps and I thought, "wait, what's happening"...then my friend pops out with her camera!! I thought he surprised me with a photo shoot!! So she starts taking pictures and he had this nice photo frame thing set up!! As she is taking shots, he drops to one knee and both our families/friends come from around the corner to surprise me!! It was indeed a wonderful surprise. How could I not say yes!!!