About Us

 

This is the dorky portion of the site where Heather writes stuff and makes us sound much more adorable than we actually are

 

In April Taylor and I are getting married. It might take me until April to write something about us we can both agree on. When he told me what he was going to with our wedding website and asked me to write the section he had titled "Story of Us", I thought piece of cake. So far it has taken me four months and so many drafts I can't even count. Seems we are harder to put into words than I anticipated.

I won't say it was love at first sight when I met Taylor-because I definitely wasn't. When I met Taylor there were lots of external factors telling me we probably shouldn't even be friends. But we ended up working on a project together for class and so I started to get to know him. It only took a week before I told someone for the first time I was going to marry him. I knew I was in so much trouble! One of my dearest friends had a crush on him, and he was another friend's little brother! You aren't supposed to like a friend's little brother under any circumstances! So I told Rach to go for it, cause I didn't like him, and I told my roommates that I just thought he was a great guy-but he was Heather's brother and so he was just like a little brother to the rest of us too. Yeah-luckily I have forgiving friends!

Taylor and I got pretty close pretty fast. We finished our class project together (and got an A of course) and hung out a few times with all of our friends. We saw movies, went to dinner, and became pretty inseparable for the rest of the month. I talked him out of going to class one day (it was Poli Sci 101-it wasn't hard to do) to go run errands off campus with me. We stopped to play miniature golf. It was that day-at that moment I knew there wasn't going to any more pretending we were just friends. Really-it was just mini-golf, but something changed. We drove back to campus and went up to the balcony of my suite and talked it all through. No one starts dating someone new at the end of April when they are going to New York and Maine for the summer and have no chance of seeing each other. And there was the matter of dating my friend's little brother, or the boy my friend had a crush on who I told her I had no interest in. It was a long talk and we pretty much agreed on all the factors involved in us not dating. Then we decided to hell with it and that was the beginning!

We didn't get a lot of sleep those last three weeks of school. We stayed up late night talking and walking back and forth between our Residence Halls. It rained a lot that April! We didn't really tell people we had started dating, just kind of enjoyed the world not knowing. I did tell my friend Jenny-who had encouraged me to be honest with myself from the beginning when I told her there was nothing going on. Shortly after our first kiss I remember telling her I was going to marry Taylor someday. I'm pretty sure she thought I was nuts-and I was! I was barely 19-How could I know, but she smiled and told me she thought that was great and to make sure I invited her to the wedding. Yeah-she is a sap too!

So Taylor and I have been dating for just over 5 years now. There have been some rough times and many, many silly fights (I have a bit of a stubborn streak)! My poor college roommates who had to hear those-I'm really sorry ladies (and Alex)! There have been so many amazing times too! I can't even begin to list all the wonderful things we have seen and experienced together. You see, the best thing about Taylor is he is my best friend. He knows me inside and out and knows what I'm all about, even when sometimes I don't. So it isn't the awesome times or the rough times that make Taylor and I who we are, it is the everyday times. My favorite part of any day is coming home from work and knowing exactly where I'm going to find Taylor and what he will be doing (online checking on the Patriots eating a Popsicle in case you were wondering) and knowing we have the rest of the evening to just hang out and enjoy each other. Sometimes it is fighting over who is going to do this dishes or who gets control of the remote, sometimes it is listening to him chat with this brother on the phone and laughing hysterically at their conversations, or trying to get his butt out the door so we can make it to Meg and RJ's when we say we will be there (and thankfully they know that means 15 minutes after whatever time we may have said) and sometimes it is just being so tired that we flop down on the couch and watch television together. But not matter what it is, it is the everyday things that I look forward to doing for the rest of my life that make me know saying yes to Taylor when he asked me to marry him was the smartest thing I have ever done. And now as we prepare to move to the next part of the life we have started together, when people ask if I'm scared about getting married, I wonder what there is to be scared about. I'm doing it with Taylor-how could it be scary when I'm starting a journey with my best friend!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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