Our Big Day

We first met two years ago on Jan. 15th; it was Christopher’s first year in California and Lisa’s first year living in the bay area. Christopher moved from Georgia to California to go to school and Lisa moved from Stockton to Berkeley to work at Bayer. We were both new to the area and both were looking to make some new friends. When we first met Chris’ initial thoughts were, “Please just take me home, I don’t want to be out with this girl.” I guess it was because of my reckless driving or my negativity towards men. But after a few hours of hanging out and chatting we both came to realized that we had a lot in common and that we enjoyed each others’ company. Things were going great during the first few weeks of our relationship, but once school started again for Christopher everything changed. We both knew that school comes first and that our relationship had to be put on hold. But being the persistent and stubborn person that Lisa is, she kept on pursuing Christopher. She just knew that he was special, that he was the one that will bring great happiness. It took her at least five months before Christopher finally gave in. And I am sure that he knew she was the one for him as well. For Christmas we took a trip back to Salisbury to spend the holidays with the Carters and it was during this time when Christopher popped the question. On Christmas day, while everyone was opening their presents, Lisa had a gift that was marked “To: Nobody, Fr: Santa” within the box there was a Chinese take out box that marked “finish this box first and then continue on opening the rest of the other box” and inside of the takeout box was a huge fortune cookie. Lisa started to eat the cookie but being impatience she broke the cookie in half and found a gorgeous ring. Now two years later we are engaged, our big day is Sept. 6th, 2008. We are extremely excited and looking forward to experience this special day with our friends and family.