ALOHA!! We're Planning Our Hawaiian Wedding from 2,843 miles away!!!
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Our Story
It was a Thursday in May 2007. I was getting my hair done when a friend asked me to come hang out at her place for a little kick back. I never went out during the week because of work, but I decided to go since my hair was done and I was looking fly ;). One of our friends had brought a couple of guys over, one of them being Derek. He was wearing a white shirt, shorts and a baseball cap (his signature look). After talking, the guys realized that my cousin worked with them. Then we started talking about myspace and how my cousin had a gross name posted on his page. Anyways, we all had a good time hanging out but at the end of the night...the guys said goodbye and I fell asleep on the couch, haha, too many margs for Sarah!
A couple days later, I got a myspace message from Derek! We exchanged a few messages back and forth, then I gave him my number. We had been talking over text and phone for a couple weeks and he had asked me to go out a couple times. I finally answered him saying we could talk a little bit more so I knew he wasn't a creep. Yes, I literally called him a creep and he stuck around! He had a bithday party the weekend after the creep deal and asked me to go with some of my friends. This was perfect because I could hang out one more time with my friends and then make my decision since I knew nothing about him really. Naturally, all my friends approved of him. He was so handsome, charming and polite that night! So the day after his birthday party, I said that we should go out the next day.
That night, Derek was shot in a drive by shooting. I had talked to him right before it happened on the phone and I said I would call him back. When I called him back, he didn't answer and didn't respond for over 3 hours. I was getting upset because I finally told this guy I would go out and he was ignoring me. He finally called back saying "soooo, I don't know if we can go out tomorrow." So then I'm starting to get upset because he's blowing me off, haha, and just say okay! He said "I was shot tonight, I'm in the hospital, they're doing testing but I want to still take you out as soon as I can go home". He's such a champ that he got out the next day and took me out that night to Olive Garden (even though I had to drive and he was hopped up on pain pills haha). That was May 21st which we celebrate every year by going to Olive Garden. I still say jokingly it was the sympathy that hooked me, but I know, as well as everyone else, it's because he is so amazing and he has been the one for me since day one :) He's my little ghetto boy who claims "a 40 cal didn't even stop me".
I started gathering ideas way before I decided I was going to make a planning bio...so please let me know if I need to credit any pictures or ideas!!
I started gathering ideas way before I decided I was going to make a planning bio...so please let me know if I need to credit any pictures or ideas!!