At the tender age of 5, sweet Adrian Franklin and Brooke Gibson were asked to be ring bearer and flower girl in their family friends’ wedding. Dressed in a black tux and white dress, almost as if they were miniature versions of the bride and groom, the duo got to practice matching each other’s pace as they walked down the aisle together, carrying the ceremonial pillow holding the rings, and tossing flower petals as they went.
Seventeen years later, the two walked down the aisle together again, this time, as the actual bride and groom in their own beautiful wedding ceremony! Adrian told local reporters at the scene that though some have hypothesized that their experience as children at that first wedding sparked a seed of romance, he didn’t see Brooke in that light until partway through middle school.
When he finally started to fall for her, he decided to shyly pass her a note in class that read “Will you be my girlfriend” A little tease at heart, Brooke didn’t respond at all. Anxiously, Adrian wrote her another note, “Well, Brooke, are you going to say anything?!” Snarkily, she wrote back, “Well you didn’t write a question mark…”
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This little conversation became a recurring affectionate theme in their ensuing relationship, and when Adrian finally proposed to her, years later, he had their friends sail a boat out in front of them, trailing a sign that said, “Will you marry me, Brooke” … without a question mark. As she read it, he reached over and handed her a paper cut-out question mark.
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IMAGE SOURCE: DAILYMAIL
This was enough to make Brooke laugh and convince her that they should be together forever, and to bring matters full circle even more, they had their wedding ceremony in the same church that their family friends’ wedding had been in, seventeen years prior. Just this year, Adrian and Brooke lovingly walked down the aisle once more in the same North Carolinan South Gastonia Church of God where their touching story began.
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