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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
If you're going to spend the rest of your life with someone, it might as well be your very best friend. @ 8:00 PM

C. and I met our junior year of high school in a multimedia class.  If you had told me back then that one day he and I would be married, I probably would have laughed.  Hard.  Due to a lack of interest in each other, we didn't go on any dates at all in high school.  It wasn't until after we graduated that we realized how fun it was to make movies together.  Filmmaking is kind of a weird hobby, and it's initially what brought us together.

We continued to get to hang out, make movies, and get to know one another all the way up until he left on his LDS mission to Brussels, Belgium/Netherlands.  It was one of those instances where you don't know what you have until it's [almost] gone; the days leading up to his departure were difficult, as were the two years that followed (AKA the longest two years of my life).  

Though we spent two whole years on (literally) opposite sides of the world, that was the time we grew the closest.  Our only means of communication were handwritten letters, which we wrote to each other regularly.  There's something very real about getting to know someone through a piece of paper; there's nothing superficial or fleeting there... no flirtatious glances, no butterflies in your stomach, nothing.  Just you, nothing else, on paper.  And that's how we fell in love.

When he (finally!) came home from his mission last summer, we knew right away that the friendship we had formed over the last few years was meant to last forever.  On October 9, 2010, we made it official and got engaged.  Four months later, on February 17, 2011, we were sealed for time and all eternity in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. 

And now we're living happily ever after.

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