Nichoel

  Nichoël & Nathan… We have known each other since high school but became closer friends during our college years. We had the same major in and love of architecture and design, similar outlook and creative bent, and comfortable conversation and ease in company. It was like being friends with ‘ourselves’.               Neither one of us actually remembers when we formed our own separate friendship from the people who brought us together. We actually tried to recreate ‘the timeline’ and laughed at our inability to piece it together—it was just a natural, easy companionship that bloomed with no apparent effort. Somewhere, between visits during college, post college get-togethers, trips and Nathan’s visits home to Cortland in adulthood, we became one of each others closest friends. Though months may have passed (and perhaps a year) between conversations and visits we would always be able to pick up where we left off, never awkward and always welcome. In 2007 we were honored to be asked to be our friend Karin’s Maid of Honor and Man of Honor at her destination wedding in Costa Rica. From that day on, through almost daily heart to heart chats online and via telephone for months and Nathan’s subsequent visit home for the  bridal shower in the spring of 2008 we had developed a bond stronger than our friendship. Reunited for the bridal shower in April 2008, we both decided to take the ultimate chance to find romantic happiness with the one who was once ’just’ a best friend. Keeping our long distance romance to ourselves for a couple months allowed us to make some tough decisions and choices—to be sure that the ‘more’  we’d discovered in each other long distance could be a day-to-day reality.   All we can say now…. reality rocks!