Kristen

About the Bride... Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, Kristen, the youngest of 4 siblings, is the beautiful daughter of Stephen and Stephanie Henry.  She is kind, sweet and likes to have a good time with friends and family.  An avid fan of the Florida State Seminoles and a gator hater, she loves watching college football. In 2010, she graduated from Florida State College at Jacksonville, with her bachelors in Supervision and Management.  She has been employed with Publix Super Markets for the last 10 years.  About the Groom... Chris was born in Pensacola, Florida and to much of his mother's distress, kept her in labor for over 24 hours.  The son of David and Susan Scales, he received all of his athletic ability, kindness and competiveness from them. Chris played baseball his entire life and football all through high school. In 2001, he moved to Jacksonville, Florida to start college.  He then began his career with Publix and ended his college life. That is when he met the love of his life... How we met... It all began with MySpace..... In August 2007, Kristen went to visit her sister in Sacramento, California and decided to go out on the edge.  A friend of hers told her about this guy and how she should go introduce herself to him when she came back.  Kristen decided she might as well look him up on MySpace and see if he had a page.  He did!!  Kristen decided that she was going to send him a MySpace message to see if he'd reply.  Days later, she still hadn't heard anything from him.....(only because he checked his MySpace maybe once a week) Kristen decided that she was probably just going to give up.     Chris finally checked his MySpace and didn't know what to think.  He was impressed that a girl actually had the courage to send him a message.  He didn't respond to the message because well, he's just not to sure why he didn't respond!  After hearing no response from this strange guy and totally embarrassing herself, Kristen texted her friend and told him that she was going to give up on this guy.  Her friend asked what day she got back, and told her that he was working and she should come check Chris out at the store.  Kristen immediately thought, NO WAY!!  After Kristen got home, she realized she didn't have any food in her apartment, so she needed to go shopping.  Of course, she didn't go to the store 2 minutes from her apartment.  Instead, she decided to take a chance, and make a trip to see if she could try and meet Chris..... After going grocery shopping and keeping her eyes wide open for Chris, she didn't see him anywhere.  She decided that she was just going to go through the line and check out with her groceries.  She thought, "Who knows maybe he'd take my groceries out?!"  No success!!  Kristen got out to her car and then forgot, she didn't get stamps.  Kristen then had to go back in the store to get some stamps....secretly hoping that Chris would appear!  He never did..... Kristen then went home and unloaded all of her groceries and called her friend Kaley.  Kristen told Kaley about how she felt like she needed to just grow some courage and go ask for Chris.  Kaley said something along the lines of what's the worst that could happen, if he's not interested at lease you never have to see him again!  This was true!  So what did Kristen do?!  Kristen decided that she needed some ice cream!  When Kristen walked in the door, she saw her friend Amii.  Amii asked why Kristen had been in the store so many times, so Kristen told her about how she was wanting to meet Chris.  Amii said, I'll go talk to him!  So Amii went and talked to Chris, while Kristen went to find some ice cream.  Chris walked around the store and tried to find Kristen, and finally found her on the wine aisle, looking at some Smirnoff Ice.  They talked for a bit and then Chris got Kristen's number.  Chris was leaving the next day to go to Las Vegas with his boys and he said he would call her when he got back.  Kristen thought to herself, "I really doubt he's going to call me, but hey it was worth a shot!"  The night that Chris got back from Vegas, Kristen was having a girls night and then received a phone call from Chris wanting to go out the next day after he got off work.  Kristen was so excited!! Chris and Kristen hit it off from the start!  They went to Adventure Landing and played putt putt and went to the batting cages.  Kristen beat Chris at both (because he was being a gentleman and letting her win, she can't putt if her life depended on it)!  Afterwards, they went and saw Pirates of the Caribbean.  They both had an amazing time, and couldn't wait to go out with each other again.  And this was just the start of their amazing lives together......