Wedding Day

Wedding

Mirror Lake Lyceum

Reception

Our Wedding

When I came home from my freshman year of college I started a Summer job with my best friend, Kristen, at Sports Authority. Before starting Kristen mentioned that there was a guy who worked there that went to our middle school but was two years older, this guy was Kyle Turner. We both went to Facebook stalk him yet he had no social media so we had to go off a 2006 yearbook with a picture of Kyle smiling so large with a mouth full of braces as he was voted “Most Likely To Be Homecoming King”. Funny thing is Kyle never made Homecoming court while in High School. Fast forward to me starting my job and on my orientation day who was to stop me but Kyle with his smooth opening line of “Did you go to Northside?” Right then I knew it was love...just kidding! We went almost all Summer not really talking to each other and then for anyone who knows me knows I love my birthday so in normal Bailey fashion I went up to Kyle and said “my birthday is coming up..what are you getting me?” To my surprise Kyle goes “I’ll take you to lunch”, score! As we were leaving for lunch our manager dared us to hold hands on our way out (whole other story) so we did. After lunch we exchanged our snapchat names, so millennial of us. We then went on our first date where he picked me up from my second job at Cody’s Original Roadhouse where I was sporting my non-slip Dr. Scholls sneakers and smelled of fajitas. I was truly smitten with him, I was able to talk to him about anything and felt so comfortable. Not to mention he was quite the gentleman, he walked me to my door after the date and I was confused as to what he was doing because I was not used to being treated so well. Soon after Kyle and I did not see each other for two weeks as we were both on vacation. The Saturday I returned to St. Pete he picked me where we went to dinner and then walked on the beach where he asked me to be his girlfriend. Everyone thought we were crazy as in two weeks we were leaving for school on opposite ends of the state. After 5 years, 3 graduations, monthly visits and many facetime calls the distance in our relationship had gotten much smaller as we both moved back to St. Petersburg. On March 15th Kyle asked me the easiest and most meaningful question he has ever asked me. We are so excited to celebrate with all of our friends and family this upcoming March.

Bailey’s version:

While working at Sports Authority (R.I.P.) a new girl was hired to work in the clothing department in the summer of 2013. I ran into her in the break room and tried to play it cool and ask if I knew her. She responded no but later I found out we went to the same middle school even though we were two years apart. She continued to ask me for the next month what I was going to get her for her birthday, and we finally decided to go have lunch before going on our families vacations. We enjoyed a nice lunch of Pei Wei (once again R.I.P.) and got to know each other. The next day we went on our first date, where I picked up Bailey from her second job, and she smelled like greasy hamburgers from being inside Cody’s Restaurant all day. I drove my father’s truck that night because I wanted her to think I was cool driving a truck, not my 2000 Honda Accord (R.I.P. Black Beauty). We decided after that night that after our family vacations we would try a second date. Two weeks later, August 3rd, 2013, we had that second date, and the rest is history. A few weeks later we moved off to school, Bailey to FAU, and myself to FSU. We stayed together all through school, and though at times it was tough, we made it through a long 4 years of long distance relationship. Upon finishing grad school and moving back to the Tampa Bay area, I decided Bailey was the woman I wanted to spend my life with. On March 15th, 2019, she officially became my fiance and I’m excited to see what our future holds together. I love you Bailey Nicole.

Bailey & Kyle

Bailey & Kyle

B&K

Wedding Day

5:30 PM

Wedding

Reception