I would like to say that I was privy to every moment of your life from the time that you started to walk to the time that you stood on your own two feet. However, I was privileged to be a part of your growth from high school to college, part of your adulthood, and now part of your future.
You made it to this moment, where everything in your life is finally coming together. Gone are the days of uncertainty when you and he were not sure what will happen or what will change. I'm so happy for you that this day has come that you'll be with the one who loves you the most.
You were always inspiring to begin with. The first time anyone meets you, they fall in love with your personality because you stayed true to yourself. Instead of heels, dresses, and skirts, you took up beat-up white converses, flannels, and t-shirts, portraying the tomboy that lives inside you. I always had a feeling that he fell in love with that from the beginning. Your personality quirks, like when you turn extra sass when you drink or that you are an insomniac if you can't turn off your brain, makes you all the more endearing and I am glad to call you one of my closest friends.
But I guess the real reason I want to write this to you is to thank you for giving us hope that love is still out there. Dating is exhausting when you are not in school anymore and you are working full time, but every time I think of you and him together, it motivates me that there is someone out there for all of us. But I also know, from watching you, that it takes dedication and work.
I won't pretend that I was privy to the intricacies of your relationship with him. You both seem like a dream to the outside but that kind of chemistry had to have come with many moons worth of conversations and understanding between you two. This makes you more of a hero in my eyes than ever before. You are beautiful, smart, kind, funny, and with a way about you that makes everyone around you see the humane in you. He must have seen that long before I have and it warms me that a guy can see all of those things even before your relationship blossomed.
Thank you for becoming my friend. To be quite honest, I can count the number of girlfriends in my life on one hand and I'm so happy that you decided to take the chance to get to know me. I'm sure when you met me I was not the friendliest given that I was your fiancé's friend first and could be a threat. But we grew up and as you got to know me and I you, we found so many things in common. Most importantly is the fact that you and I are the tomboys who will wear converses on their wedding days.
When you told me that he finally asked to marry you, I cried. It was because you deserve all the happiness that life can bring you and that even the tomboy can be loved wholeheartedly. But the most important reason is that he proposed to every tomboy that feels left out and shit out of luck when it comes to love. So, when I went to bed that night, I dreamt that you would walk down the aisle, confidently, with bright white converses on your feet.
Because at the end of the day, you are still going to be you. Flannel-wearing, fun-loving, and full of life, you'll be the core of you. They say marriage changes you in ways that you can't even imagine and I'm sure that is true. But I do think that you'll be the core that you are now because you've worked so hard to still maintain who you are. He may be dreamy but he is not the sun. You, my love, are; and I hope that you will still continue to give the rest of us hope because you are that radiant.
