Out of the ‘Friend Zone’

I’m originally from the San Francisco Bay area, and my husband is from Seattle. My husband’s best friend married my sister, and at their wedding I was the maid of honor and my (now) husband was one of their groomsmen.

I didn’t know much about him until the couple had a second wedding reception up in Washington, where my (now) husband and I spent the entire weekend together helping with décor and family. Still, I “friend-zoned” him. 

Fast forward two years, he was in New York for grad school, and I was living in California with my parents. He applied for his dream job (which happened to be right near my house in California!), praying, “God if you want me to date Olympia, get me this job internship.” He got the job, and then he moved into my parents’ house for the summer. We started dating two weeks later, and the rest is history.

Olympia Rusu, Pinnacle, a member of Surry-Yadkin EMC