Catherine + Stephanie
Read Their Love Story!
Well, I suppose, good day to whomever
this reaches!
I was sent this wonderful chance to enter for this
opportunity by a friend. My name is Catherine, and my
fiancée's name is Stephanie. We've been together for two
years as of February 3rd of this year. We currently reside
in Jacksonville, FL which started allowing marriage equality
on January 6th of this year, and is part of the 11th
District Court, currently waiting on a response from the
Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality. We met each other
after both getting out of previously emotionally and
mentally abusive relationships. We met at a Rocky Horror
Picture Show shadow cast production our friends were/are in.
We later came to be on the cast as well funny enough. I
played Rocky, and Stephanie did a few PG/PG-13 strip tease
pre-shows.
I was going through a huge change in my life, getting out of
the United States Marine Corps after five years of active
duty service, and going through cosmetology school in
California. I am now a licensed cosmetologist in California,
and Florida. Stephanie was leaving her position as a campus
police officer at a local community college in California,
and becoming a full time Best Buy employee. We went on a few
dates, and the rest was history! In 2014 we moved out to
Jacksonville, Florida to both be closer to both our
families.
On New Year's Day this year, we spent the day in St.
Augustine, FL being tourists, just enjoying the shops, the
sights, and the sounds. Little did she know I had a surprise
for her that night. I arranged for a horse drawn carriage to
take us on a tour around the city, and at a point in the
ride they stop at a "Love Tree". It is a palm tree that
grows out of a pine tree, it's really beautiful. Well, the
driver let us know that at a point during the ride we would
be able to get out, and take pictures in front of the tree
together. This was a hint to me, to be able to get out and
propose. We came up to the spot, and he started mentioning
that he specializes in marriage proposals where one person
is unaware. I thought he was going to stop and let us know
to get out, which he did not, so I completely missed my cue.
I started scrambling at that moment to try and think of a
Plan B. The carriage stopped and we were t the end of our
ride. I threw the blanket we had over our legs off, and we
had a glass Coke-Cola we had been sharing during the ride,
which was now empty. I left the bottle inside the carriage,
and ushered her out. I asked her to turn around and grab the
bottle as I had forget it was there. When she turned back
with the bottle, she found me on a bended knee. Her first
words were "What are you doing?". Through a few "umms" and
"uhhs", I managed to say "Will you marry me?". With all the
replies she could have said, my wonderful lady replied with
"Of course! DUH!". Just oh so magical, had it been any
different though, it wouldn't have been us.
I thank you for the opportunity for me to share our story
with you, and congratulations to all the happy couples, and
marriage equality for everyone!
Thank you,
Catherine
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