Engaged, and grateful

We are getting married in October. I have written and rewritten this paragraph more times than I want to admit, because the truth is very simple and I keep wanting to dress it up.

She is my best friend. We hike slow and we talk fast. We argue about coffee and agree about almost everything else that matters. After a long day of work I want to tell her about it before I tell anyone else, and that has been true for a long time now.

I do not know much about weddings yet. I know we want it small, somewhere outside, with the people who have shown up for us when it counted. I know I will probably cry. I know I am ready.

Mostly I am writing this down so that future me can look back and remember exactly how grateful I felt in this quiet week between the proposal and the rest of our life.