First of all, you want affidavits from your family. We got letters from my sister, my parents, his brother, his parents. Then also five letters from our friends.

Here’s something I’m incredibly proud of. I got those letters WITHIN ONE WEEK OF ASKING.



How?

1. I ask people “Hey! Do you have time this week to write a quick letter?”

2. I emphasized that it didn’t have to be a fancy letter - just some quick memories jotted down. I told them to spend only 15-20 minutes on it.

3. I wrote down EVERYTHING me and my husband had done together with them, adding the correct dates and sent it to them. Why? Now I’m relieving them of the stress of trying to remember. This could look like this:



- all of us met for the first time before school started [date]

- we played board games together every week

- Sterling told you in person that we were dating

- after we graduated, we went to Penang with a group of friends [date]

- we told you over Skype that we were engaged

- we visited you in the Netherlands and brought beer [date]

- we talked about the bureaucratic hurdles of getting married in Belgium when we visited you

- we all met up again in Bruges on [date]

- In Bruges, we talked about our plans to get married in Denmark

And so on and on and on



Most people grabbed a lot of the examples that I gave and added some personal thoughts and emotions to it.



Of course, THANK THEM for helping you out!



