Hello family and friends. This is David Morris speaking. Along with the many other tasks I have handled on my own for this wedding, I am also writing "our story". Buckle up it's a good one (I got a D in sixth grade English). Taylor and I met in second grade at Hawken School. Nothing of note here, I think we learned some solid early math skills and I wanted to be a dinosaur when I grew up. In third grade, however, Taylor told our teacher she had a crush on me. I didn't know this until years later. Third grade was a great hair year for me, what can I say. In fourth grade, I returned the favor, but when I vocalized my crush to Taylor, I was denied. Soul crushing, cruel and painful to put it bluntly. Apparently, she was dating our good friend Matt Burns, who you will meet at our wedding, and though he has since made this up to me, who knows where I'd be now if I hadn't been denied my first crush at such a young age. I digress. Throughout the years, we became close friends. At such a small school like Hawken, you find your role and somewhat stick to it. Some would say I was the class clown, friend zoned by many, while she was the cheerleader, even though we didn't have those. Trust me when I say I had plenty of summer camp girlfriends and countless make outs...those girls just don't have cell phones or Facebooks, so you can't fact check me. Taylor and I did go to senior prom together—as friends—since her then boyfriend was away at college and my then high school girlfriend dumped me two months prior. We still remained very close after high school. In addition to seeing each other during holiday breaks, we would do an annual trip with our good friends Josh Bass, the handsome gentleman marrying us, and Katie (Wilson) Lowe, one of Taylor's bridesmaids and a local Cleveland celebrity. A few years after graduating college, I moved from LA to NYC, where Taylor was living at the time, and at some point we made out on a foggy dance floor and started dating (don't fact check this with her). You can imagine how fourth grade David would feel about this decades-long journey. High fiving fourth grade David as I type this. I proposed in June of 2022 in upstate New York, after which we spent the weekend celebrating with friends and family. It is a blessing to be marrying someone I have known almost all my life, as we have gone through so much together side by side. Shakespeare couldn't have written it better himself. See you all in July.