My guy
Recently I’ve gotten a few questions about my husband, wanting to know more about how we met, and our wedding and a little about him so I thought I’d be fun to do some sharing today!
(me and my husband, the first summer we started dating)
My husband’s name is Frank, in case I haven’t properly introduced him before. We met at a mutual friend’s birthday party when I was 15 and he was 17. We mostly talked online for a white, and then one day I asked him to pick me up from college (I started community college when I was 16), we went out for pizza and from then on were good friends. He liked me, but I was always either dating other guys or completely uninterested in having a relationship (normal jerky teenager girl stuff). For a few months when I was about 17 I was really mad at him and refused to talk to him, neither of us even remember why I was, but I think it goes back to that jerky teenage girl stuff. Thankfully, I got over it though.
I went through a really rough time personally right around my 18th birthday. Frank was one of the few people I told what was going on, and he was there for me more then anyone else was. I remember on my birthday sitting with him and talking and realizing that I was starting to really like him. One night a month or so later he kissed me when we were saying goodnight, it was sweet and suprising.
We dated for three years. He kept me sane when things were rough. He made me take a break when I spent too many hours to count working on projects for color theory class. We went to Boston together and slept in a public park. We’ve tried over 30 restaurants in Philly together. Then, three years later he suprised me with a trip to Palm Springs during Valentines week. He proposed, I said yes, of course! The proposal was very private and simple. The ring was antique. It was all perfect.
Neither of us wanted a big wedding, and decided to get married at our church with just a few close friends and family on my twenty-first birthday.
We’ve been married for a little over two years now! It’s one of those crazy things where it feels like just yesterday that we were saying yes, and yet it feels like we’ve been together forever.
Some random facts about Frank…
– He travels for his job, he’s been to most of the states and also Mexico and Canada for it.
– He once built a large Tesla Coil, for fun. Yep, he’s a smarty pants.
– I have a death-touch to cars, thankfully he’s a pretty kick-butt self taught mechanic.
– He loves to play Pickleball. Never heard of it? Neither had I. In fact, for months I thought it was just a game him and his friend made up.
Another question I’ve gotten a lot lately is, when are we going to have kids? Well, it’s not in the plan at all. Neither of us have any parental desires whatsoever. However, we love neices and nephews and friend’s kids and are perfectly happy just enjoying them!
So fun learning more about your life! You guys look so good together, this is just like a perfect little fairy tale story – swoon!http://www.ravenmaidenmaven.blogspot.com
Thanks Lydia:)
I always think it’s amazing when you meet someone and don’t even know that in years to come they’ll become one of the most important people in your life. I also liked reading what you had to say about not having kids. That’s something my husband and I are facing now. We’re not sure if it’s in the cards for us, but we get the strangest looks when we say we’re not sure if we want kids. So I think it’s awesome you guys are doing what is right for you. It empowers me to be more confident in what I want, no matter what that is:) Hope you’re having a great day!
It really is Kari! It’s crazy sometimes to think back about how I would have never guessed things would turn out the way they did.Definitely do what’s right for you! We got a lot of people telling us that they don’t understand us not wanting kids – but we know what’s best for us and that’s the most important thing!
I love pickleball! We used to play it in my gym class senior year. Holler.Also, you guys are so cute!
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hah that’s awesome Cristina! I’ve come to love it too, it’s pretty darn fun!
Pickleball, Holler! Cristina is awesome.
wow, I would not have pegged someone so crafty as the sort to have a tiny intimate wedding, but it looks lovely and casual and like the time leading up to it wouldn’t have been stressful at all, which must have been really nice. Thanks for posting this, it’s really nice to know about this other big part of your life 🙂
That’s what a lot of people have told me, Liz! At the time I was still working as an assistant wedding planner, so I knew how much time and money went into a big wedding, plus I think I had gotten most of my creative fill doing other people’s weddings, hah! Even now I don’t think I would change much anyway, I loved how intimate it was.Thanks for reading:)
I think this is great! You live in NJ right? Were you homeschooled? I live in NJ and many homeschooled kids that I have in my youth group that I help lead go to community college too. I LOVE that you got married young. I was pre-engaged at 17 to my husband (he “fell in love with me” at first sight when I was 15 but I didn’t meet him until I was 16). We married at 20 and 21, so I LOVE LOVE LOVE when I learn about other young married couples!! I like that you had a small ceremony too! I wanted to elope but went with my mom’s wishes to wait (grr). If we eloped I would have wed at 18 instead. That is great that your husband was able to be there for you when you went through tough times and that he can continue to do so now!! yey!!
Thank you Victoria! I am in Jersey, and I was homeschooled! Yeah, most of my homeschooled friends started community college early too. It’s funny because people always say I must be “so smart” to start college early, and I’m just like “not really, it’s the norm for homeschoolers”.Wow! You guys have such a sweet story. It’s so funny because we both thought that, as individuals, we’d wouldn’t get married until we were in our thirties. It’s funny where life can take you:)