On July 26, 2017, Joe and I met for our first date in the Southside Works at BD's Mongolian Grill only after texting for 2 weeks. It was the start of something neither of us imagined happening but from our first date, we knew there was a reason we had met: to be each other's special person for the rest of our lives.

Our paths crossed by his sister Jackie, giving me his number after she and I had been working together at Yankee Candle for a couple of months. I remember her telling her family about me at dinner one night, showing Joe a picture of me and him commenting that I was pretty.

She told me he had a really good work ethic and did a lot of side jobs after working a full day and would always come home dirty, covered in dust from rewiring homes; which I found attractive as I love a "manly man". I was single and was open to seeing if her brother and I could hit it off; given that I liked everything I had heard about him and not to mention, how handsome he was.

Fast forward to our first date, leading to the second one, then a third and the rest is history. A month into dating, we talked about all the possibilities the future could hold for us. We were both so sure about one another and we knew we could both see us having a beautiful home, marriage and family together even though we had just met.

September 4, 2017, we became "Facebook official" and currently are now going to be together for 5 years; only 20 days before our wedding. For the past 3 years, we have been putting our heart and souls into fixing up our home to make it exactly how we have envisioned it to be.

We have both grown so much in our relationship and have learned so much about one another through fixing up a home together and although it has been challenging, we would not change it for anything. We love our fixer upper and what we have created together and who it has shaped us to be for each other.

I was the first to ask for his number, he was the first to say "I love you"; but we will be each others "lasts" til the end.

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