God thread an invisible string across thousands of miles across decades to bring Wes and Marisa together. From Marisa’s father attending a preaching of the Bible by Wes’s great-grandfather in Jamaica in the 1980s to Wes’s best friend (and best man) attending college in Michigan to work on a school project with Marisa years before she even knew of Wes, God has been planting the seeds of this divine romance for generations.

Their eventual relationship began when they both decided to take a leap of faith and put themselves out there on a dating app — Hinge! Wes, having just been stood up by someone on the app, was ready to call it quits and take an indefinite break and decided to see through the conversations he already began. That’s when Marisa showed up on the front page. He stood firm and chose not to engage and closed the app. Every time he opened the app to see if there were any new messages from the girls he was talking to — there was Marisa! And so after days, Wes finally pulled the trigger. They matched instantly, shared openly and were vulnerable quickly, and felt the sparks only read in fairytales before they had even met in person. After a week of texting, they went on their first date; Wes brought flowers and the very first thing he said to her in person was, “Oh my gosh! You are so pretty!” Their date couldn’t have gone any better. Within a few hours, after Wes bought Marisa a book, they shared their first kiss under a pink tree at the Americana in Glendale, California. They sat in Wes’s car for hours, asking each other all the questions they could think of, knowing they were the one for each other. The date lasted 10 hours.

From the first date, they’ve fallen in love more every day, traveling around the state, exploring restaurants, seeing movies with AMC A-List, eating cheeseboards, watching Avatar: The Last Airbender and LOST, eating cheeseboards while watching Avatar and LOST, playing video games together, eating cheeseboards, creating cocktails, and eating cheeseboards. Wes and Marisa have deeply fallen in love with each other as best friends and soulmates. They also really like cheeseboards.

10 days after their one year anniversary, Wes and Marisa took a trip to visit Wes’s parents for Memorial Day weekend, where — with the help of his parents and cousins — he proposed to her at Tía Carmen in Phoenix, Arizona. They both sort of blacked out and can’t really remember all that happened, but he for sure asked her to marry him and she for sure said yes. The proposal happened to be exactly at 5:24pm on 5/24/24. Because we live in a movie.

As we approach this wedding day, their forever anniversary of when they become husband and wife, we can’t thank you all enough for being part of our most special and important day.

M&W

Wedding Day