So I know Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, but I couldn’t help doing this post today. For those of you who don’t know, Colby is my husband. We were high school sweet hearts and have been together a very long time. I was going through some archived photo discs trying to find our wedding photos (I know, I’m a wedding photographer and I don’t remember where I put my own wedding photos!) and none of them were properly labeled (thanks to my honey, all of them said iPhoto back up disc 1, 2, 3, etc). So as I rummaged through the discs I found all sorts of really old photos that I’d forgotten about that were near and dear to my heart and it just made me remember and realize how awesome God is. When I was a little girl (like 4) my mom started praying with me at night that God would prepare a man for me to marry some day (of course me being 4 at the time had no clue that my husband to be was only 3, maybe even 2 depending what time of year it was). How could I have known that when I met Colby at age 16, he was 15, that he would be my husband some day?
There fairy tail begins… Well, not really, but the story begins….
My best friend, Megan, (who if you’re reading this I’m going to sign you up for Facebook dang it!) and I have known each other since the 3rd grade. It was our junior year and luckily we had 2nd period together. We always rode to school together (we’d switch off driving every week) and of course talked about the guys we thought were cute. One day she comes into second period and asks me if I had seen the “guy with the buzzed brown hair and bleach blonde bangs.” I hadn’t so one day she pointed him out to me saying he was hot. I was like, yeah, he’s hot, but I had another interest at the time. Way led to way and turns out his step brother, Cole, was in my home room class and happened to be good friends with Megan. Megan had no idea Colby was his step brother. So after a little while of calling him “bangs” or “cheese” for our code names for him, she mentions to a guy named Erik that she thinks he’s cute. Erik happened to be friends with Colby so he dropped by our second period class before the bell rang to introduce him. He popped his head in, said hi, and that was that. Later that day Cole decided we were going to meet him while we walked out to the parking lot after school. We met him, he was funny and had a little ham fight with one of his buddies (it was the last day before Christmas break in 2000 so they had had a party in one of his classes) and Megan ends up getting his phone number through Cole but was too afraid to say call him. So later I happened to con her into giving me his number and I said, “Ok, if you don’t call him now, I’m going to three way him.” So we three way called him and invited him out to bowl. The rest is pretty much history. We talked all night. We had no interest in each other romantically at the time, but poor shy Megan was too shy to talk much hahaha! Megan ended up finding someone else she liked and Colby and I remained friends for a year and a half before we started dating. During that year and a half we became best friends and hung out all of the time. We’ve been friends for 9 years. I’m so glad that God brought our love story together (all the way from Oklahoma!) the way He did.
So, without further ado, here are some photos of our time together.
Disclaimer: The wedding and engagement photos were taken by Monica Starr Brown.
Jen Shannon Photography, Chicago Wedding Photographer
Jen Shannon Photography, Florida Wedding Photographer
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