00:00Jennifer was teaching in the heart of Best Eye in Brooklyn, teaching art on
00:11collages. There are papers and periodicals and magazines all around and
00:15one of the students is going through lessons. She stops in the tracks, looks at
00:20this page. It was an article that I was in in 2008 and she contacted me.
00:27I'm gonna just take a chance and see what happens. So I took a chance and a lot of good
00:30things came from that. We went on our first date. We've just been, you know,
00:34inseparable ever since. I really felt comfortable with him like immediately
00:39even on our first date. He had a really great spirit and he also was an art
00:43teacher and I'm art teacher too and like we had so many things in common.
00:48I've never seen one in her life. No, I've never seen one. We met in Brooklyn. She picked me up. She was in
00:53a blue Acura. I stepped to her car and just look in and she just looks up and
00:59smiles and I was like, oh man, she's just gorgeous. Is there any way it could be better?
01:02No? You already here? Okay. I'm gonna try to make it a little better. This is something that I wanted to do for a very long time and I'm glad that
01:15we're here together to kind of share this moment. And I know that we've only known each other for like two years but since the moment I met you I knew that you're someone that I've been searching my whole life for and I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.
01:32You're wonderful. You mean the world to me. You're brilliant. You're beautiful. You're loyal. You have a beautiful heart. And I just want to ask you if you would spend the rest of your life with me.
01:49Jennifer. Jennifer. I love you in all my heart. I always have and I always will. And I'm asking you, will you marry me?
02:00Jennifer. I love you, sweetie. I'm very excited, very happy, and just very honored that she's here.
02:30Jennifer and I met through Essence. You know, just the very idea that she picked up this magazine. It just would be a great opportunity to really carry this fairy tale to the end.
02:41Hi, I'm Curtis. I'm Jennifer. And vote for us for Storybook Wedding on Essence.com.
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