Sunday, February 11, 2018... the day we first met unexpectedly. This day will always be one of my favorites because it’s when both of our worlds had forever changed. You know when you hear people tell you, “when you least expect it, you’ll find your soulmate”? That’s exactly what happened that day.

I had received a phone call that Sunday morning from two of my good friends asking me to join them for brunch. It was a beautiful sunny day and thought why not hang out with some friends since the night before I did nothing but hang out at my apartment watching movies all night by myself haha. I was told that we were to meet at Fox Harbor for noon, but was warned that they were running behind and would meet there in about a half hour. I decided to go ahead and get there for noon to grab us a spot to sit and as soon as I walked in... I remember so vividly seeing HIM... it was so weird. My heart started beating fast and I just remembered thinking, “this guy is hot and more than likely taken. There is no way he can be single.”

As I kept on walking, I noticed he was also making eye contact with me and I could feel this energy that had me thinking that I needed to find a way to sit next to him. He was sitting at the bar with a couple of his buddies that he had went to college with. The place was pretty busy and there were only a couple of spots available for seating. There were two seats open on Derek’s left and one spot open in between him and his friend Kevin. I ended up building up enough courage to ask him kindly if he could move down a spot so I could sit up at the bar and save the other 2 seats for my friends I was meeting up with. Of course, him being the sweet guy that he is, he moved down and I purposely sat right next to him. As I sat and waited for my friends to show up, I started making conversation with Derek and his friends. That conversation ended up turning into us hanging out for the remainder of the day/night with us getting to know one another. When I discovered he was single I won’t lie... my heart was doing a little happy dance haha. We learned a lot about one another from that first night. After hours and hours of us talking and getting to know each other, we both knew there was some really strong chemistry between us. Side note: Apparently he took a Snapchat of me some point in the night and sent it to his entire family saying, “I’m going to marry this girl one day.” 🙈 As the night was coming close to an end, Derek had asked me to go out on a date with him later that week. I was smiling so big and couldn’t believe I was going to get to see this guy again. From there we continued to talk daily leading up to our first date where he took me to Skaliwags in Algoma, WI. I knew right away... this one is different and I could feel the sparks I’ve never felt with anyone else before. Here we are now today... I am getting to marry one of the best guys out there and he’s my best friend. Just goes to say, fairytales can come true 🤍

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