“I had been widowed for over a year and wasn't looking for love but sometimes it finds you anyways. Troy and I met at a friend’s house party. Right from the start we couldn’t get enough of each other and barely spent a day apart. When I decided to bring Troy home to meet my parents, I warned him that my dad was a character. I told him about how he used to give ‘Applications to Date My Daughter’ to any boy who wanted to date me in high school. Upon arrival at my childhood home, Troy presented my parents with an application! I had no idea that he had found one online and filled it out. My parents instantly LOVED him. When Troy decided he wanted to propose, he found another application online entitled, ‘Application to Marry My Daughter’. Unbeknownst to me, he once again filled it out, but this time received a written acceptance letter from my parents. On a random Tuesday night in October, Troy took me out to dinner at the restaurant where we had our first official date. He gave me the acceptance letter from my family and then got down on one knee. It was the sweetest and most thoughtful proposal. How could I have said no? We got married at Buffalo Trace Distillery 6 months later on a beautiful April day.”

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