We first met at the Sari Hotel Hall in Jeneponto back in June 2020 during a campus event. I was waiting for my best friend after presenting my material, and he came over to chat right after finishing his session. We had actually been involved in a previous campus event where his faculty hosted it and I was invited as a discussion opener. So it felt natural for him to pull up a chair next to me and start talking, he kind of recognized me already. We were in the same circle, but it was the first time we met in real life

After that conversation in the hall, I decided to look for his contact. Since he was a senior at my best friend’s campus, I asked my bestie for his number while teasing her, “I think your senior likes me.” She laughed, knowing he was the type who never really got close to girls. Eventually, I found his Instagram account, followed him, and he said hello. After a month of talking intensely, we officially became a couple

After going through a long-distance relationship between Gowa and Jeneponto, in 2023 we decided to plan our wedding for an odd-numbered year, early 2025. In October 2023, he showed me his work contract and said if I could handle a Yogyakarta–Makassar LDR, he would move to Yogyakarta. I agreed. He spent all of 2024 working in Yogyakarta while I worked in Takalar. In March 2025, he returned to Jeneponto. Then in May, he asked his parents to visit my family to discuss the engagement. My family offered several date options, and his family chose one. We agreed on November 12th for the engagement. And on November 23rd, for the wedding