I’m excited to share that this week is a special week and so is going to be quite different than usual!
Coming up on May 11 is my and my husband’s 2nd anniversary! Don’t ask me how we’ve already reached that milestone, but I’m thinking it went by in a whirlwind of doctor appointments, honestly.
But in honor of the upcoming occasion, I want to spend this
week (yep, the whole week) sharing details about how we met and our wedding
because, first of all, I haven’t done that yet and, secondly, because I think
it’s quite a lovely story myself. ;)
So here we go! :)
Before I tell you how Daniel and I met, I need to tell you about
meeting his sisters. (It’ll make sense soon, just follow me here…) I headed off
to college in South Carolina
in the fall of 2006, and at that college we have societies, like sororities,
that you choose from to join as little freshmen. In the society I joined was
the sweetest girl, a couple years older than me, who rather took me under her
wing and was just all around so sweet to me. Her younger sister, my age, joined
the same society, and we ended up hitting it off later my junior year. By then the
older sister had graduated, gotten married, and I really thought I’d never see
her again.
When my senior year arrived, I remember watching a usual mob
of students walking by to class and saw this guy that looked so much like my
friend (the one from society I hit it off with junior year), I knew they had to
be siblings. And I didn’t even know she had a college-aged brother. Come to
find out, it was in fact her younger brother, but that was really all I ever
saw of him that whole semester.
Second semester my senior year, my friend and I would have
dinner together once or twice a week, and she soon started bringing her
brother, Daniel, along. I still remember that the first two times he ate with us,
I was in a really bad mood (he remembers that too) and couldn’t possibly have made a great impression
on him. But after a couple weeks of him joining us, I started asking my friend every
time I’d meet her for dinner if he was coming too, and if he didn’t, I’d look
around for him in the (huge) cafeteria, and sometimes he’d try to find us too (as his sister half-jokingly, half-seriously claimed because I was there) and join us for his
third course. :D It always made my day if he ate with us, and it made me so
happy when I happened to run into him during the day that I still remember
those occasions. I even told one of my friends, “He just makes me so happy!” And
her response was that I needed a picture of him to keep around for when I need
a smile.
By mid-semester we were clearly flirting and seeking each
other out at events, just not clearly to us. All of this time, I honestly never even let myself
start to really like him because I knew he couldn’t be interested in someone
older than him. His big sister’s friend? I just knew he couldn’t be. Why would he? I really had
no idea I was capable of stifling such a thing so easily, but I sure did!
Regardless of where my head supposedly was, I waited and waited for him
to ask me to one of the closing events of the school year, a ginormous formal
concert. When he hadn’t asked me to one of the earlier ones I was pretty
crushed (yet without being interested in him? I know, I don't get it either), but when he finally asked me to the final one, I could not concentrate
on my homework that evening for anything. I was straight up giddy. To top it
all off, he also asked me to the big closing event the next night.
Us before the second concert--so sad about the horrible quality... |
So the first concert? We hit it off like crazy. And the
second night was just as amazing. Crazy, weird amazing. Like, we both went back
to our dorms kind of blown away by what was happening. Me thinking all the
while he couldn’t possibly want to be with me and … him thinking the same about
me, I later found out.
Those concerts where we really hit it off were the couple of
nights before graduation. After the graduation ceremony he and his sister were
among the many people who found me to congratulate me, etc., but he stayed around the entire time while all my well-wishers came and went.
Just look at that guy! Sigh... <3 |
Afterward, my family and a friend and I were all going to go
out to eat, so I invited Daniel and his sister to go with us, and their oldest
sister from my freshman year and her husband ended up joining us too since they
lived in the area. Yeah, there were a lot of people there at Ruby Tuesday’s,
but I’m told I pretty much ignored everybody but him. Whoops! I really didn’t
mean to, but gosh, he was sooo cute
in his orange t-shirt (my well-known favorite color at the time) and orange
sunglasses. Oh man, I can still feel what that meal was like… Anyway. :)
So after the most amazing meal of all time, we had to say
goodbye. This guy, who I really knew nothing about but yet could not stop
hugging when it was time to go. It was just the weirdest thing ever! He then
headed home with his sisters and brother-in-law, then home to Pennsylvania
for the summer, while I headed back home to West Virginia—six hours away from him. And
just like that, just as soon as whatever it was that was happening started, it
had to end.
Why on earth I finally found this guy the weekend of graduation—after
four years of no guy—I have no idea. I guess God knew I definitely could not
have handled a relationship with my perfectionist, over-achiever schoolwork and
saved him for the minute my diploma was handed over. ;)
And his blue eyes... Yeah, I did a LOT of looking at these pictures that summer. ;) |
Now if I had to wait to see him again, you’ll have to wait
until Wednesday to see how this story ends. Okay, you know how it ends, since
it’s our anniversary on Sunday, but you don’t know how we got there. ;)
P.S. Linking up with Funday Monday and Manic Monday. here and here. and Throwback Thursday
It's so fun to look back like this and re-live all those feelings of crushes and new loves! Thanks for sharing! <3 Carylee | morepiecesofme.com
ReplyDeleteYes it is! There were so many details I hadn't thought of in a while that I didn't even include here. Such sweet memories... Thanks so much for stopping by! :)
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