Former local congressional candidate Catalina Lauf has picked a mate.
The following is from her Facebook page:
Now that the election is over, finally have some space to post a personal thing!
Can’t wait to marry you AGAIN at the “official wedding”next year abroad❤️ BUT happy engagement AND happy 2 months of marital bliss to my soulmate.
The short version!:
It was a Summer day in Paris.
My sister & I (quite literally) stumble in this cute cafe like typical American girls looking for ice lattes after missing two trains to London.
I look up & see this handsome Brit from across the way sitting down with 2 other guys.
He looks up at me.
We lock eyes.
I freeze!!
Love at first sight.
At a cafe in Paris?
No way.
The City of Love!
My sister plays wing woman.
By that time though, B had paid our bill & walked over to us & invited us to sit down with his table.
A true English gentleman!
Thank GOD I threw on some makeup on before walking out that day
Had it not been for the “Butterfly effect” (so many things went wrong & right! leading up to it) we’d never would have even been at the same place TO lock eyes.
We would’ve missed each other had we walked in 5 min later. I
thank God for all the people & little & big lessons, moments in our journey that led us to the same place. Serendipity met magic.
Magic became love
B- Your handsome looks (or your sexy accent) aren’t even the most beautiful elements of you.
They don’t come close to your brilliance, loving, protective & generous soul that lies in the heart of that silent badass exterior.
You are a gift.
Thank you for showing me every day what both true love IS, & what a real man will
DO for the woman that he truly loves.
From all of the effort you put into pursuing me across the world after I “played hard to get” from across continents 
to putting up with my cray cray 
to asking me to be your wife, I’m grateful that you chose me, & that I get to wake up next to you every morning.
For that reason alone, I am the luckiest woman in the world.
‘We’ll always have Paris’!
Mom always told me, “Love conquers all & nothing can stop it. The man who loves you will put in the effort & will find you wherever you are in the world. He will show up on your doorstep. Just like your dad did.”
…Mine showed up!
