September 23, 1999
I was a senior in high school; Chris was a junior. He came to my church with a mutual friend of ours. He kept coming back to church to see me, and I was pretty impressed by that. We started writing notes back and forth to each other, and I knew this guy was different.
Many dates and conversations later, we realized that we had a lot of similar desires for our lives. Even though things around us weren't perfect, they seemed to be when we were together. We went to concerts, trips to Gatlinburg, and youth trips with church. We just got closer and closer.
Chris and I decided to take a trip to New York to visit his mom and stepdad. I had never been to New York, so we also made it a sight-seeing trip. On the plane ride there, Chris looked at me and said, "When we get back, we'll look at rings." I was really excited!!! I was going to get engaged soon, and I couldn't be happier! We did our sight-seeing to Battery Park, the Empire State Building, Wall Street, the Twin Towers, 5th Avenue, Central Park.....but then we returned back to where we were staying. Little did I know - Chris had the ring in his pocket the whole trip! He thought I had found the ring, so he just asked me. He wanted to do it in a special, more romantic place, but I was just as excited as if it had been at the top of the Empire State Building. The date was July 27, 2001.
Since we were both very young, we decided to wait a few years, and we set our wedding date for March 23, 2003. Now as I look back at my wedding pictures, there are a few details that I would change, but I would never change the person I married. I would marry him 100 times over. Even though our journey to here wasn't perfect, it was more than I could ever ask for.
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