If you ask me if I was looking for love in my small college town bar in April of 2017; freshly graduated from undergrad and getting ready to move across 2 state lines for graduate school, you'd be right in the assumption that I was not.

But Drew happened. This kismet force of man waltzed into my life that night and irrevocably changed its course forever.

Drew and I remained friends for 2 years after we met, talking nearly every day, divulging the triumphs and defeats we navigated in our early-mid 20s, and becoming closer with each text, phone call, and facetime we shared, along with each in person visit we managed to sneak in anytime I was home from graduate school.

Fast forward to the late spring-early summer of 2019 our relationship took a turn for the better, when we both finally came to our senses and realized what was, and may have always been between us. A certain type of love that deserved to be acted upon, spoken about, and experienced by us both.

Drew and I started out long distance as I was finishing graduate school in St. Louis in 2019; and we experienced long distance many times in our relationship, including my work and clinical experiences in Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, Arkansas, and everywhere in between. We have now lived in 3 different cities, including Grand Rapids, MI; St. Louis, MO; and now Ann Arbor, MI. Through this all, Drew has stayed consistent, resilient, ever present, supportive, and gentle throughout all our moves, job changes, life changes; the good and the bad. AND through this all both of our families have been the bees knees. I love Drew's family and friends as my own, and cannot believe I am so blessed to now have them in my life forever as well.

Drew truly was and is this captivating force of a human being, who has this innate ability to make other's feel important, heard, loved, and cherished by simply being who he is. I am enamored with him, and still can't believe I get to experience all life has to offer with him by my side.

Cheers to being a Whitney very, very soon.

Registry