Lindsey Bourlon
Oct 7, 2016
I SAID YES!
Ours was the shortest courtship that I had ever heard of. Well, except for celebrities, but we all know how those turn out most of the time. Oh, and that girl I knew in who went on a date with a random guy she meets at a party and was married to him two days later. Fool, was what we muttered under our breath. Over a year and a half later, they’re still together, and have moved into our first home and both work full time job and still make time for each and still be madly in love with each other. Perhaps, we were the foolish ones to doubt them. I’ve never been one of those women who’s had this gigantic desire to get married. If it happened, it happened; if it never did, then fine, cool, whatever — it wasn’t a milestone on my life plan. Even a year ago, I would have balked at the idea of getting engaged so soon, but when you find someone with whom you want to share your life, certain things just click into place. The rational side of me will always argue that love is a chemical reaction within human beings that forces us to, ultimately, keep the species going, but the romantic side of me, the one I’ve only recently discovered, has put rationale on the back burner. Sometimes you just need to go with it, and not debate or over-analyze the “this and that” of things.
Schane and I may only have maybe a just a year or so under our belt, but we have the same chance at success in love and marriage as anyone else. I’ve spent too much of my life proceeding with caution when it came to matters of the heart, but I’m done with that. I feel what I feel, and I’m not about to throw it away.
Schane and I were set up by a mutual friend who lives in TX. I live in AR, and Schane lives in OK. We initially both said no, but she ended up convincing him to contact me. A few weeks later, he drove down 9 hours meet me. My family and I both fell in love with him pretty instantly and knew that he was the one!
The proposal took...