By now, I’m sure you’ve had a chance to watch this beautiful proposal video we’ve been sharing on the site over the last few weeks. As much as possible, we love to get to know the story behind the couple of a popular video or photograph. So it was inevitable that we had to track down this awesome couple so we could share their story with you. Meet Claudine and Junior. They were engaged on May 25^th of this year, and have set their wedding date for May 17, 2014. The surprise proposal occurred when Claudine thought Junior was in California for work. When asked about the significance of the wedding date? Junior was born in the month of May, and Claudine’s birthday falls on the 17^th of her birthday month. They also started dating in May, and, obviously got engaged in May. This couple was truly down to earth and so much fun to chat with! I hope their story blesses you as much as it did me.

BMWK: Can you share a little about how you met and started dating?

Claudine: We officially met online through MySpace. He sent me a message asking if I was someone he had gone to school with. But I think he did it on purpose because he was trying to mack through the computer and I wasn’t having it [laughs]. We ended up talking back and forth and it turned out he had gone to school with some of my cousins.

He tried to date me for six years before we became an official item. I had just finished high school and college and was dating at the time that we had met. He became that best guy friend and I just didn’t want to ruin that friendship. We would hang out practically every weekend, and everyone kept asking when I was going to date him? But I just kept saying, ‘No he’s just my friend’ [insert Biz Markie song here…Oh baby youuuu got what I neeeed]. I’ll never forget Mother’s Day weekend. He came with me to my mom’s house to get her gift. My mom kept saying how crazy I was and how she couldn’t believe he was still hanging around, and I wasn’t giving him a chance. So in 2011 we officially started dating.

BMWK: How was it for you, Junior, waiting all that time? What was going through your head?

Junior: It was kind of tough but I managed to pull through and hold on tight. And of course I prayed about it and God gave me that chance. Since then, my heart has been full of joy and I’m just so happy now.