“Within the first month of being together, I ended up being deployed, and we had to go through that. I think that is honestly what kind of set the tone for our relationship.
We became best friends, and she ended up staying there for me when I came back from deployment,” Alexx says. “I just realized that I didn’t want another day without her.”
Alexx, who’s a Navy Seabee Steelworker, and Nikky, who’s a store manager and performing arts dancer, have been through it all since they’ve met back in early 2011, but they both believe that the ups and downs of their relationship is what made them the happy married couple they are today.
“I think it helped us a lot because it made us stronger,” Nikky said. Nikky recalls how they first met at a club in Atlanta called Le Buzz when Alexx was a shot girl. After about three months, they finally started dating. While Nikky was stateside waiting for Alexx to return, Alexx says it was just as hard being deployed and in relationship with Nikky because “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” wasn’t repealed just yet.
“It was really hard at first because ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was in the works of being repealed, so I had to hide it for a little bit,” Alexx says. “It was hard for her because when I was deployed if anything were to happen to me and she wasn’t on good terms with my family for some reason or another, she would never know if anything happened to me. She wouldn’t know if I was hurt or not because they wouldn’t allow Red Cross to contact her. As soon as ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ got repealed and as soon as we were allowed to be recognized married federally, it opened up doors for everybody and it made it easier because she could attend certain functions that she couldn’t before.”
Both knew, after Alexx came back home, that there was no one else they wanted to be with more than each other.
Alexx and Nikky did their engagement differently than most couples because they both asked each other, believing every woman should be proposed to.
And while their beachside wedding was a small intimate event with their friend Cheryl officiating the ceremony, it was still filled with emotion for both women.
The day of the wedding, they got dressed in separate rooms and left in separate cars. They walked down two separate pathways toward the beach and then met each other by the ocean.
“When we went to give our vows, I had everything written out and planned. Next thing you know, I wasn’t reading from the paper at all. I was just kind of speaking from the heart, made it shorter than I thought, but it was great,” Alexx said.
YEARS TOGETHER:
4 years
ENGAGEMENT DATE:
March 23, 2012
WEDDING DATE:
April 6, 2015
WEDDING VENUE:
Beachside in Dunedin, Fla.
WEDDING CATERER:
Went to Hamburger Mary’s afterward to celebrate.
WEDDING THEME/COLORS:
Teal and lime green
INTERESTING FACT:
Alexx and Nikky met at a club where Alexx used to be a shooter girl, who sold Jello-O shots. Nikky used to buy tons of Jell-O shots from Alexx because she like her and thought she was cute, but Nikky didn’t even like Jell-O shots. She thought they were disgusting; she just wanted to get Alexx’s attention.
Photo 1 by Embee Photography.
Photo 2 by Vincent D’Ippolito.
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