I should have known when our PA school professor said "look around at the people in this room these people will be here for you for the next few years. Some people in this class will probably end up getting married," that it would be us.

I met JT in PA school when I needed a boyfriend like I need another pair of shoes... He was a great friend while PA school made our lives miserable. He was a light and often a distraction. We became closer and closer when JT would need a late night tutor since he spent his time out playing frisbee with friends instead of studying... enter said tutor- ME. My girlfriends in PA school would say this is when they knew we would likely end up together. We spent many a days in Sewickley Library where I looked up through notes and books and realized maybe my friends were right and I did like this friend a little more than a friend.

Fast forward through a summer spent with "my friend JT," I decided a move to Baltimore for work and to be closer to my sister was a better idea than staying in Pittsburgh. I had no hidden agenda when I offered JT the job he was searching for, but couldn't find, and ultimately took (well maybe I did). These first few years JT let me take the time I needed to figure out what I was missing was him all along. He showed up for me when we (my roomates and I) needed a light changed in our Baltimore City Apartment. He was always down for a car pool back to Pittsburgh to separately visit our families (at first). We bonded over skiing, working and mostly Freddy. We traveled a lot. We leaned into each other through a pandemic, job changes, a lot of unknowns and were better because of it. He went from fixing my roommates clogged shower drain to fixing our broken garage in the house we share together.

I knew I wanted to marry JT when I was disappointed that he did not in fact propose on our family trip to Aruba for my mothers Birthday despite setting up a gopro and walking hand in hand towards the sunset on the beach... He quickly learned of his mistake when low and behold on a very rushed trip to the Bahamas a few months later he finally asked and I of course said YES.

From the first time he asked if he could kiss me in my friends apartment the night after we graduated to the time in the Bahamas he asked if I would marry him, I knew it was him.