Welcome to our wedding website, where you'll find every piece of information regarding our long awaited "I Do's". Our wedding will be taking place in beautiful Greenville, South Carolina, home to the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains, remarkable waterfall views, and vibrant downtown atmosphere. You can get to know our awesome bridal party, read more about travel details, and check out our registry here too. So have fun, take a look around and don't forget to RSVP! Finally – thank you for your ongoing love and support. We are so excited to share this day with you and look forward to dancing the night away with all of our favorite people!

Addison and I were engaged on May 5, 2019 and about a week after that, I received some unsettling news from my dermatologist. After having a prior skin cancer scare, I just wanted to get a quick check-up to make sure everything was okay. That previous summer, I had a major surgery done on the spot on my nose and it was sent to one of the best pathology labs in the country. The spot was not cancerous and it was known as a “spitz nevus”, which is kind of like an uncommon, benign mole. Much to everyone’s dismay, the area multiplied and grew back with a vengeance within the next six months, greatly worrying my doctors. What I thought would be a quick check up turned into appointment after appointment and it came to this conclusion: a spitz nevus can be misdiagnosed, and it looks very similar to melanoma under a microscope. My doctors called the spot or “lesion” a spitzoid tumor of uncertain malignant potential, because it displays the potential to be a cancerous and possibly fatal form of melanoma. I was also told the heartbreaking news that I would have to quit my job, I would not be able to attend my last semester of Clemson in the fall, and that I would have to put off my wedding for another two years. I would also have to have four invasive surgeries over the next year and a half where they would remove and rebuild my nose. Faced with the unknown, Addison and I decided that no matter what was going to happen, we were going to do this together. We applied for a marriage certificate, got our two families together and had a small ceremony in my backyard on May 26, 2019. My dad built us a cross, my mom married us, and Bryan, Kim and Alex got me flowers and made sure I had something old, new, borrowed and blue. It was such a beautiful, intimate ceremony and it was better than anything I could’ve imagined. Addison and I were husband and wife and we would face the next year and half together.

Two days after we got married, I had my first major surgery. I was awake, numbed, and horrified as they removed the majority of my nose and temporarily covered it with a skin graft from my chest and shoulder area. Addison was in the waiting room the whole time and there afterwards to unbandage, bathe, and take care of me when it was too painful for me to do anything. He saw me at my very worst those next couple months as I routinely went to the Medical University of South Carolina to have surgeries and treatments. Addison was such a faithful husband and the Lord was even more faithful to the both of us in the midst of that terrifying season. I was scheduled for my second surgery--all strapped into an IV with scrubs on and mentally preparing myself for the next 4 hours--when one of my doctors came in to inspect my skin graft. She said she thought it was doing so well that I would not have to have the next 3 surgeries! It was a miracle of miracles. And the Lord was even more faithful in my last semester of college as well: I was told I would have to take medical leave from Clemson, however, I was able to switch all of my classes online to graduate. And the Lord was faithful again to allow me to walk across the stage at graduation!

Just to be clear, this story is about God, not Addison and I. He is a miracle maker, a good good Father and so merciful to each of us. Me, Addison and both of our families have had to lean on Him exponentially over the course of the past year and our faith is stronger for it. The Lord has made our marriage into something so beautiful because Addison and I had to cling to each other and the Lord each day, stepping into all of the unknowns of this past year. Addison has shown (and continues to show me) the best example of how Jesus loves the church: he has been constant, faithful, self-sacrificing, patient and more loving than I could ever deserve. Today I am healthy, happy and melanoma-free because the Lord is so so good. And in August, we hope to celebrate our crazy love story with you all and to glorify Jesus together. We love you all so much, Abby and Addison