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CHRISTINA
& KYLE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
LIXXIM PHOTOGRAPHY
Christina was working at a restaurant when she and
Kyle were introduced by his cousin, whom Christina
had previously worked with. After work, she invited
the two to go for drinks, and Christina thought she
wouldn’t soon see Kyle again, but then she found his
phone in her car. “Which I say he did on purpose,”
Christina says. “Yes, I did,” Kyle says.
Right away, they were spending all their time together,
hanging out almost every day. “It just sparked
into a relationship really quickly,” Christina says. “At first
I didn’t think he was someone who would be into me.
So, the fact that he was giving me all his attention—I
loved it.” They spent time together going on drives,
usually out of town. “We just loved [taking] spontaneous
trips when we had several days off, and [we
would] go to the aquarium or the beach,” Christina
says.
In 2017, they took an extra special trip to the beach:
Hawaii. Kyle had secretly bought a ring and brought it
with him. “We were at the local swimming spot and it
started to rain,” Kyle says. “I asked her to get out of the
water and when she ran up, that’s when I did it.”
Although they had discussed getting married,
Christina was totally stunned that he was asking her
then and there. She asked him, “Are you serious? Are
you kidding me?” Kyle assured her that he was serious
and was not kidding. Kyle says that he had thought
about marrying Christina, “pretty much since the moment
I met her.” When he proposed, he had a feeling
she would say yes, but, “I still felt really nervous. Afterward
it just felt surreal.”
Over two years of planning Christina put the wedding
together. Her two best friends helped with signage
and bridal party tasks, but other than that, she
did everything. She made sure to check with Kyle to
see if he agreed with her decisions. “After all,” she says,
“it’s not just about the bride.”
“Yes, it is,” Kyle says. “I just knew I wanted to marry
her, I didn’t care about the details.” While she was
working on the wedding Kyle would tell her, “I’ll marry
you right now, we don’t need to have this wedding.”
On the day of the wedding, while Kyle felt he
couldn’t breathe, and was sweating and trembling,
Christina was panicked at walking down the aisle with
all the guests watching. Once she got to Kyle at the
altar, Christina says, it was like, “This is real; and it was
exciting.” Once they were together they both calmed
down. “I definitely wanted that moment, and I wanted
those memories,” Christina says. “It was stressful, but
I’m so happy we did it.” OO —Margaret Snider
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