The first day of college Devin gave me and my sister Jordan a ride to freshman orientation located in one of the buildings on our college campus. Sitting in the backseat of Devin’s suburban, I did not realize I would one day marry the man driving it. Devin and I remained mutual friends for our first two years of college. It was not till my junior year that I noticed him around the coffee shop I worked at on campus. Everyday he started to show up and order a single can of Yoo-hoo. I slowly started to look forward to our quick interactions everyday. As days went on his order turned into conversations, however, I was getting impatient that we hadn’t hung out so I made a move. After encouragement from over half of my now bridal party, I snapchatted him. I finally convinced him to come over to my apartment for snacks and just dance battles with me and my roommate. After beating Devin multiple times at just dance I knew I liked him.

December 26, 2022 Devin drove his car to Georgia to ask me to be his girlfriend. However, after totaling his car I wasn’t sure if he was going to make it to my house. With a quick car exchange thanks to his parents, he continued to my house and that night I became his girlfriend.

November 16, 2024 Devin convinced me that I was taking graduation pictures in downtown Prattville. However, when I arrived I found him on one knee.

On the first day of college I was voluntold to drive these two girls that I had just met by Jimmy and Jade and I was super nervous, so I just drove them and dropped them off at the multiplex and never really heard from either of them again until two years later. I had no idea that the woman sitting in my backseat would be my peace, my home, and the love of my life. I did notice though that one day when I went to buy a Yoo-hoo in Sienna at Faulkner, I had never seen a woman so beautiful in my life, and that was before I got to know how beautiful she was on the inside as well. I then continued to go by the coffee shop on campus everyday before class just to see her and hopefully get to speak to her, and luckily one day I got the courage to say that she “looked nice” (even though she looks great everyday). Then later that week I remember that I prayed to God that my future is in his hands not mine and that if whatever He wills for my life then I will listen. No less than 10 minutes later after that prayer that same beautiful woman snapchatted me out of nowhere and I didn’t even remember her having me on Snapchat, but I can tell you I did not care. I wanted to play it cool like I wasn’t feeling like the most lucky man in the world and excited to talk to her and I even waited a whole 2 minutes to respond. We finally got to hang out at her apartment with her friend Anna and ended up playing Just Dance even though I was very outmatched by both of them and lost very badly, I still fell in love with how funny and awesome it was being around her. Even when all of the fun stopped and trying to impress each other stopped, we actually got to talking and knowing each other. I felt like I could be myself with her and felt like I never had to be someone else or pretend to be, like she made it easy to fall in love with her, like my heart had no choice in the matter because it knew she was the one. So when she went home for winter break, she had invited me to come meet her family and visit Georgia. I wanted to wake up as early as possible to see her, so the morning after Christmas at 6 A.M. I left and one totaled car and awkward drive back from the auto shop, I had asked her to be my girlfriend. I know that there was a lot of time between then and now (1 year, 10 months, and 21 days to be exact) but I had finally saved up enough money over our time together, knowing since the moment I fell in love with her that I wanted to marry her, so I had convinced her that she was getting graduation photos in prattville Alabama and had stayed up almost all night to build everything. Then woke up super early to set it all up and ask her to be my wife, which was one of the greatest/ easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make. The next one will be even easier when I get to say I do…