As most everyone knows, we met 5 years ago in high school. We never thought we would end up getting married. He was too much of a flirt to be husband material and I nagged him too much for him to stand me for too long. But as fate would have it, we fell in love. I nagged him to death and he pretended to ignore me. It's odd that in the course of five years you can change so much as a person. We grew up together, took on responsibilities, shared losses, became adults... and we had our ups and downs along the way as any couple will.
He surprised me the first time he talked about marriage without flinching. He had proclaimed early on that he didn't want to get married until he was 35 and had done all the things in life that he wanted to do. Interestingly enough the things he wanted to do changed with every passing year as he grew into adulthood. The things that were important to him before took secondary places to marriage and a family.
The day he proposed was the biggest surprise. It was April Fool's day and as tradition prompted, I spent my day pranking all of my co-workers and family. Every year we pull a massive prank on family, so I kept asking him what he was planning on doing. Unfortunately he appeared to be in a bad mood and was vaguely answering that he didn't know and would figure it out later. In spite of his bad mood I was determined to go to dinner together and wear the new dress I had bought so I made plans at our favorite restaraunt. So that night as I got gussied up (good thing too because he would have proposed no matter what I looked like) he frantically started calling me upstairs. His big idea was to propose by telling me that he had planned on proposing that night and had lost the ring. I was crying so hard that I didn't hear him ask me to marry him. He had to ask again and I of course said yes.
Real love takes more than flowers, means more than beautiful words. Real love means keeping promises... holding on when you don't want to, being strong so that another may rest. As time and change swirl around us, the love we share will stand quietly rooting us down, forever together, forever real.
-Memoirs of a Bride to Be "I always dreamed I'd find you. I dreamed of someone with your smile... someone who could thrill me with a look and melt me with a touch, I always imagined a romance like this. I imagined falling in love with someone who could make me feel so beautiful, so passionate, so alive. I'll always love you... You fulfill all my fantasies and make my dreams come true."
