Sonia'a Perspective

As It all began in the fall of 1994. Gustavo was in my Algebra 2 class group, Mrs. Tompkins, PHS...go Panthers!! We also shared common friends so we would see each other often during that, our senior year. We then attended PC where we coincided with a few classes but it was not til' my last semester in yet another math class where we really started talking again. Soon after I transferred to Fresno State and had not really talked to him for a few months until a friend of ours saw him in Porterville and invited him to a Mana concert that we had planned on attending...it was during that awesome concert that my then friend was extra "nice" to me. We talked frequently after the concert...he then asked and I said yes. We dated for eight years until he saw my gray hair and decided he better ask before I grew old, it was then out of nowhere, outside his house, no candles, no dinner, no flowers, VERY unexpected he once again asked the question. It took me a while to realize he was on one knee, with a ring, and was serious, I SAID, "get up" several times followed by a "YES", and then the planning began!!

Gustavo's Perspective

Sonia and I first met in high school back in ninety-four. We were good friends but nothing more. After high school we both went on to Porterville College and that's where a photography class and a statistics class created sparks and intervened in our lives. After Sonia transfered to Fresno State and I stayed behind at PC I started to realize that I liked her...I liked her a lot. Through good friends I was able to gather up the courage and chase her around and convince her to give me a chance. Sonia finally agreed, I transfered to Fresno State also and the rest is history. We both graduated from Fresno State and after eight years together we are finally getting married. When I asked Sonia to marry me though, she kept on telling me "no." Then again, she had tears in her eyes and I knew she meant "yes." She had me kneeling for like thirty minutes!