August 3rd, 2019 was the day everything changed.

It all began at a beautiful wedding which Riana was attending, and Kyle was bartending. When Riana walked up to the bar, she noticed Kyle immediately.

Kyle introduced himself and told Riana that he had recognized her from the gym they both went to. They got to talking about what time of day they typically work out. Unfortunately for Riana, Kyle said he usually went in the afternoons while she always worked out in the mornings.

After the night wrapped up, Riana was very sad to leave knowing that Kyle never asked for her number and she didn't even know his last name.

The next day, she decided that she wanted to try and catch him at the gym because that would likely be the only place she would have a good chance at running into him again. After working out and waiting around the gym for nearly 2 hours that next afternoon, there was no sign of Kyle. Just as Riana started walking toward the locker rooms ready to take off, fate was in her favor. He didn't say much but a simple hello and smile and went off to begin his leg day routine. Riana had to then play it off like she was also just arriving at the gym to begin her workout and not act like she had already been there for 2 hours...

Alas, after exchanging looks a few different times from across the gym, Kyle worked up the courage to shoot his shot. Riana was doing some lunges down a hall when a voice from behind exclaims his infamous line... "mind if I lunge with you?"

As you could guess, the lunges were minimal but the chit-chat was real. The long small talk convo ended with Kyle asking Riana if she wanted to come to the bar he was bartending at the time, that evening and have a drink. She agreed and a few hours later was nervously walking into a bar alone to meet this handsome stranger. She sat shaking with nerves, but soon was relaxed by how easy the conversation continued to flow with the two of them. Neither Kyle nor Riana could keep a smile off their face the entire night. As the night grew late, Kyle and Riana went their separate ways but not for long. The next day was when they shared their first kiss and never spent another day apart for months.

My favorite part about our story, is that the night I met Kyle, sitting at the bar a good friend of mine walked in and asked what I was doing there sitting alone at the bar (Kyle was away making another drink around the corner). My response to her was the realist thing to ever leave my mouth. "I just met the man who I am going to marry".....

The rest was history.

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