The day before forever began.
There are days in life that seem completely ordinary while you’re living them.
This was one of them.
December 19, 2024.
I woke up with no idea that tomorrow would quietly become one of the most important days of my life. There were no signs. No grand feeling that everything was about to change. Just another sunrise, another workday, another evening like so many before it.
If someone had told me that in twenty-four hours I would meet the man I would someday call my husband, I probably would have laughed.
Tomorrow, somewhere between two people living out their lives, a conversation would begin.
Neither of us knew it then.
You didn’t know my name.
I didn’t know yours.
I had no idea that one day I’d call you my Starman.
No idea we’d spend weekends walking beautiful trails, doing running hug jumps in the kitchen, and crying over coffee because forever suddenly didn’t feel long enough.
No idea that we would find a partner that made us feel seen for the first time in our lives.
No idea that you’d ask me to marry you from three thousand feet with “Will You Marry Me Rae?” illuminating from the ground below.
No idea it would have been the easiest and best YES of my life.
Tomorrow was just another day.
Or so I thought.
Looking back now, I smile at the woman I was on December 19.
She was carrying hopes she couldn’t yet name and walking toward a future she couldn’t yet imagine.
Little did she know…
Tomorrow, she would find home — forever as she knew it with her Starman.
If I knew all of this would happen, I would have went to bed on the evening of December 19th, and spoke this soft prayer of gratitude, and I would have said to you from my future self:
Thank you my Love, for giving me the most amazing life I didn’t know was possible. Knowing you has infinitely changed everything.
This is our yesterday, now, and forever.
This is our love story.
Love, and Forever Yours,
Rae