Our story began with a birthday invitation, and who knew what turning seven could lead to! I met Ian twenty two years ago when he invited me to his birthday party in 2nd grade. Other than meeting each other at such a young age, what makes this so special- and what we realized years later, is that this party gave my mom a chance to meet him, and that is a memory I will hold onto tightly. Our story resumes at seventeen years old, junior year of high school and the year we fell in love. We spent the next year together, growing and adjusting to the adulthood that was quickly approaching. We spent our college years focusing on our new found independence, separately discovering who we were and becoming who we wanted to be. But Ian always stayed in the back of my mind. The first fall of post grad after we both moved home from Arizona, we found our way back to each other and reconnected with the people each other had always been and got to know the people we had become in our years apart, and the rest has been history. Now at twenty eight years old I am getting ready to marry the love of my life. We have grown up together, and we continue to do so. I will be there to hold your hand throughout every stage of life, whether we’re 28 or 88. Choosing you was and is my easiest choice, it was always you!