Wedding Wednesday: How I Met My Fiance

Meet Adam. Before I share the story of how we met, I have say that meeting the person you are meant to be with is all about timing and God definitely has a plan to make the stars align, trust Him. 

Adam and  I met in 2010 at our company's sales conference in Traverse City, Michigan and we were moments away from never meeting. (yeah, I know what you are thinking...) The first night of our sales conference, at a big social, I remember telling my two friends, Sarah and Cynthia, "That guy is really hot, I wonder who he is!" He was good looking, had a whole group of friends with him and was super confident.

Three days later, we finally met.

It was the last night of our sales conference and after a night out with friends I was ready to hit the hay a little early, and by early I mean midnight, since I had a morning flight back to Minnesota. There was a bar at the bottom of the elevators and I happened to notice that this really hot guy I had been keeping an eye on for the past few days was talking to a few people I just happened to know... kinda know.  So, I let the elevator go and wandered over to the group he was talking to.  A mutual friend introduced us and the rest was history.  

Kidding. 

We actually shut down the bar together and then talked until 3:00 in the morning.  Just us, no one else in sight, not even hotel staff. 

The best part is how he got my phone number.  Two of his friends happened to walk thru the bar and he stopped one of them to say that he had tried calling her.  She said the only phone number that had shown up on her phone was the business office number so he says to me, "Hey, call your phone from mine and see what the number shows up as."  I did. (I  totally knew where this was going.) After they left I said to Adam, "You know you could have just asked for my number and I probably would have given it to you!" The rest is history. 

Kidding. Again...

We parted ways, he said he would call the next day but I didn't believe that would ever happen.  Good looking guys like him didn't call girls like me. When I got back to my hotel room I got a text message from him, (keep in mind we did have a few drinks) that said, "I'm a good cuddler." Huh. Haha! Huh? Now I questioned what I was getting into. 

He called the next day after he had made it back to Iowa and I had made it back to Minnesota.  I was surprised, shocked, thrilled, excited. I had butterflies.  I think we've talked every day since, with the exception of a few trips that took us out of pocket from cell phone service.  

Now, if you knew Adam, you would quickly learn that he is not shy, or short on words, but he had said that there were moments at our sales conference when he wanted to walk up and introduce himself but just didn't know what to say.  Thank goodness God had a bigger plan and brought this all together! :)  I couldn't imagine my life without him. 

The next, and first, year of our relationship was spent nearly 700 miles apart. I moved to Ohio just weeks after we had met so our relationship had to grow over the phone, through communication, friendship and trust. Anyone else, besides the person I was meant to be with, this long distance relationship would have never work. 

Soon he will be my other half and I'm thankful for that every day.