#TBT —> our first picture as a couple…
…but no one really knew.
I can still remember every moment of this night so clearly. A “reunion” of sorts after the most amazing destination wedding a few months prior. A fun girls weekend away as an excuse to get everyone together again. An opportunity for us to be together. In public. In secret.
Because in our group of friends, we were just new friends – fast friends – already strangely close friends – but just friends.
Until this night.
Everything changed for us on this night.
Just over four years ago, what started as one of the most terrifying experiences, evolved into the most beautiful blessing in disguise.
Because after this night, we were known.
It didn’t happen all at once, or in any way we planned, or hoped, or expected. It just started unravelling and we started revealing…everything.
And it was freeing.
It was the beginning of a crazy, beautiful disaster. A messy, complicated journey. A big, bold, beautiful love.
If this night hadn’t happened exactly the way that it did, I don’t know that we would have made the hard choices that needed to be made. I don’t know that we would have built this amazing life together. I don’t know if we’d be just 309 short days away from our wedding. I don’t know that we would have learned and changed and grown in all the ways that we have.
But since you can’t know what you don’t know, all I can do is be insanely grateful for what I do know…
That this night happened, exactly how it was meant to, whether we were ready for it or not, and that it would ultimately lead us here.
Together.
In public.
In love.
Always.
❤︎
{talk about a #thankfulthurdsday}