We met through some of our best friends wedding. I was the Maid of Honor and Spence was great friends with the Groom. For months before meeting we heard about each other but never thought a ton of it. Our friends decided to do a joint bach weekend and we met for the first time there, July 31, 2020. The weekend we met, we stayed up until 5am talking about anything and everything long after everyone else went to bed. We immediately started texting each other everyday thinking nothing of the fact we lived 5 hours apart. Fast forward to our friends wedding, we thought we would probably never see each other again. It only took Spence a couple weeks to prove me wrong and visit me in Chicago. Only our third time ever meeting he was stuck in my tiny studio apartment for 4 days in the city. We quickly exchanged "I love you's" on that trip at 2am over some taco bell. We made every effort to see each other despite the 5 hours between us and in May of 2021, I left Chicago to move into a small one bedroom apartment with Spence in Midland, MI. Over time we've bought our first home and rescued our fur children, Millie and Harley. Without even realizing it, Spence proposed on the exact 2 year date of the night we met.