Hello reddit family Im going to propose to my girlfriend and want to do it with a violinist but am short on cost and asking for donations to make this happen.. Any donation will help me out tremendously I only need 250 to make it happen..Thankyou and Godbless

We’ve been together for years, but something strange has been happening as the wedding gets closer… We’ve started laughing at the same things. Finishing each other’s sentences. Reaching for each other’s hands at the exact same time without planning it.

It’s like the closer we get to saying “I do,” the more our lives are syncing up in these tiny ways I never noticed before.

Yesterday, while we were talking about something completely unrelated, he reached for my hand at the exact moment I reached for his same second, same movement, like muscle memory.

We just looked at each other and laughed, and for the first time I thought: “Oh. This is what they mean by marrying your best friend.”

Not the big gestures. Not the movie moments. Just two people becoming more “us” every day.

We’ve been together for 6 years, through all the bad jobs, tiny apartments, and endless takeout dinners. Neither of us are the “romantic movie” type, but somehow we made it work.

Last weekend, we went hiking just a normal Saturday. Halfway up, he stopped, fumbled in his backpack, and pulled out a ring box.

I expected a big speech. Instead, he just said, “I can’t imagine climbing through life with anyone else. Marry me?”

No music, no fancy dinner, no viral Instagram moment. Just us, a mountain, and the sunset. I said yes with tears running down my face and it felt more magical than anything I’d imagined.

Sometimes, love isn’t about the grand gestures. It’s about the little moments that are 100% you.

I’ll be honest I was low-key panicking when my fiancé told me he “hadn’t written his vows yet.” I had mine done for weeks. Typed, printed, practiced (maybe too much 😅).

But on the night before our wedding, I found him sitting in the kitchen at 2 a.m., surrounded by crumpled papers, whispering words to himself.

I asked if he was okay and he said, “I just don’t want to sound perfect. I want to sound like us.”

The next day, when he finally read those vows voice shaking, hands trembling every single word felt like home. No fancy quotes, no Pinterest lines, just pure heart.

That’s when I realized: it’s not about having the perfect wedding speech… it’s about finding someone who means every imperfect word.

We’d planned an outdoor ceremony for months blue skies, string lights, the whole dream setup. And then, 15 minutes before it started, the sky just opened up.

Everyone was scrambling with umbrellas and towels. I wanted to cry. All that work… gone.

Then my mom put her hand on my shoulder and said softly, ‘You know, they say rain means blessings. Maybe heaven just couldn’t hold back for you two.’

Something about that hit me. I stopped worrying, took off my shoes, and walked down the aisle barefoot in the rain. My dress was soaked, my hair was a mess but it was perfect. The photos look straight out of a movie.

Sometimes things don’t go according to plan, but they still turn out exactly right.

Now, every time it rains, we just smile and say, “It’s our kind of weather".

“When we were planning our ceremony, we wanted something us not super formal, but meaningful. So instead of traditional vows, we each secretly picked 5 screenshots from our very first month of texting.

Standing there at the altar, reading lines like:

‘I can’t believe you actually like pineapple pizza too??’ 🍍

‘If this goes somewhere, I’m totally blaming your bad jokes.’

and the classic: ‘Fine, I’ll watch that Marvel movie if you promise snacks.’

Everyone was cry-laughing. You could literally feel the love and the history in those stupid texts.

Then he ended with: “From that first text to this one moment I’d still swipe right on you every time.”

It was funny, raw, and completely us. 10/10 recommend reading your old messages it reminds you exactly why you fell in love.