Brandon and Jessica's Wedding in Chicago, Illinois

The story of our wedding

It all started back in 1997, 7th grade science class. Brandon was sitting in the front of the class while I was sitting towards the back. One day, he worked up the courage to have one of his friends ask me if I thought he was cute. I said yes and agreed to talk to him after class. The bell rang and Brandon quickly shuffled out of the room, leaving me thoroughly confused. We eventually did talk and became an item all the way through freshman year of high school. Sadly, Brandon moved away in 2001 and we both went our separate ways in life.

Fast-forward 14 years, I'm living in Chicago and Brandon reaches out to me through Facebook, because he'll be in town for a wedding and wants to catch up on old times. He learns that I'm newly single, as was he. We meet and immediately connect again, like no time had passed at all. The connection is so strong that he decides to move back to Chicago! He proposed to me two years later as we were walking downtown, and surprised me with our family popping out of the bushes after I said yes.