Love at first text

To say that Weber State University sophomore Bryan Johnson and senior Meghan Carlson’s first meeting was typical would be a lie. In February 2008, Carlson uploaded her photo to the “Hot or Not” application on Facebook and clicked through rating others who had entered their photos on the site. Two days later she received the message, “You have a match!” 
“I was so nervous to see who I had been matched with,” Carlson said. “Some of the people that use that application are so skeezy. Bryan was so handsome, though. I couldn’t imagine that he was actually interested in me. But I decided to give it a shot, so I sent him a message to introduce myself.”
Johnson was indeed interested and within 24 hours, Carlson had a reply back. The two sent messages online for about two hours and finally exchanged phone numbers. After that, everything sped up for these two lovebirds. Johnson and Carlson texted and spoke on the phone for hours over the next two days and finally met for their first date on Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. 
“Our first date was nerve-racking,” Johnson said. “I was afraid she wouldn’t be as awesome as she seemed over the phone. I remember the first time I saw her that night — her eyes lit up and she had the most beautiful smile. Throughout the night I grew more and more in love with her — she most definitely was the girl of my dreams.”
Their first date went so well that they went out the next day, and the next day … and the next. 
“We spent so much time together the first few weeks we dated, it was amazing!” Carlson said. “Bryan was from Ogden and I was from Salt Lake, so it was a lot of driving. But I think it’s safe to say that all the driving was time well spent.”
The driving was indeed worth it. Saturday, April 12, 2008, Johnson proposed to Carlson. 
“Meghan always said that she didn’t think she would cry when she got proposed to, but she lost it … like a big baby!” he said. “It was adorable!”
Bryan proposed to Meghan during an Italian gondola ride at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. 
“We were listening to the gondolier as he spoke to us about love when I noticed Bryan with a small black box in his hand,” Carlson said. “I started to cry and Bryan asked me to marry him … of course I said yes!” 
The gondolier announced their engagement to the hundreds of passerby, who clapped and cheered.
Johnson and Carlson agree that their relationship was extremely fast, but both state that they wouldn’t have had it any other way. 
“We met in February, engaged in April, married in August,” Johnson said. “Yes, it was fast, but everything clicked. This year will be our two-year wedding anniversary. I can’t imagine my life without Meghan. She has made me into the man I am today.”