It all started on Myspace, yes, I know Myspace lol. We started talking through messages, but everything really started after I took a family trip to San Francisco. I had never been, and he was a Bay Area Boy, so I wanted to tell him all about the experience. We hit it off and he asked me out.

I had never met him in person, so I told my Dad and Angie that I was going on a date, just to be “safe” (my 19 yr old brain lol). I say “safe” because again, I had never met him in person and I wasn’t going to tell my Dad that. For all I knew he was some perv on the internet, but it didn’t cross my mind. Since I did tell my parents I was going on a date they wanted to meet who I was going out with. You would imagine my shock when they told me this. All I could think of was, “this guy is going to freak, I haven’t even met him myself and he’s going to meet my step mom lol”. I texted him and told him, “Hey I know it’s kind of weird, but my step mom wants to meet you before we go out, do you mind?” Ultimate test, right?! He said sure, got off, went to the door and introduced himself to Angie. I was in shock seeing how cool he was about it, because I was freaking out lol. We managed to get through that and drove off to our date.

He took me to Saddle Ranch, a club in Universal. Thought it was cool that he was able to get me in to the club even though I was not of age. I will never forget when we danced that night. As we where dancing I was in awe with the place. I hadn’t been to a 21+ club, there was girls on stage twerking, they had dancers on the second-floor dancing, I thought it was so cool lol. I just met the guy, so I wasn’t jealous at all THEN (lol). I pointed to the girls on the second-floor dancing and told him “Look there’s girls up there, they’re dancing”, he looked at me with a straight face and said, “I don’t need to look up there when I have you right here”. I know right! Probably a typical answer from a guy trying to spit game lol.

However, I really felt like he was being honest, I knew he was special that same night. He would look at me in such awe and made me feel so beautiful. He still makes me feel that way when he stares at me in dead silence and tells me “Babe! Your beautiful!”. The rest is history. Here we are 9 yrs. later and I’m marrying my best friend and my soul mate.

Love, Yarely.

I have a bad memory, so I will do my best here :) We used to tell people we met in college to keep it simple. But after a few years, we let people know we actually met on MySpace (Pre-Facebook). I was living in LA, going to college and working. We exchanged pleasantries back and forth, until they day we were going to officially meet in person.

I was nervous of course. I pulled up to her house and she txt me to let me know that her step-mom wanted to meet me. At this point, I was like 'Damn' OK, I guess I am meeting both of them at the same time LOL. Now that I look back, I felt like I already knew Yarely. We had spoken on the phone, online, txt messages etc. that I felt comfortable for some reason. We went to a club at Universal Studios. The friends I hung out with then, knew the bouncers so they let her in. She wasn't even 21 yet ha!

All my attention was on her. She looked so beautiful to me. I wish I can remember what she was wearing (this is the part where I use my bad memory card) but I know that she looked beautiful the day I met her. Her big, beautiful eyes have always caught my attention. That night, all my attention was on her. We had a great time that night, and I knew she was someone I wanted to continue to see. The rest is history....