Alex and I met my freshman year while at Freed-Hardeman University. I had been mistakingly put in the wrong math class, and my changing classes led me to the meeting of Alex. We immediately hit it off and sat together the entire semester. I told my roommate at the time, "I'm going to marry that boy." And here we are! It took me two years to score him as mine, but it was worth the wait because now I have him for forever!

Alex and I had been friends on and off for the first two years of my college career, we spent the first part of the Fall semester of 2017 doing everything together. We were inseparable (and still are). The Sunday evening right after Thanksgiving break, we went out to eat with some of our friends. While I was waiting on a table for us, he took my Bible and wrote in the margin of 1 Corinthians 13, "Will you be my girlfriend?" We went back to school, and Alex took me to Gardner Center. He sat on one of the couches beside a beautiful Christmas tree with the intentions of having a Bible study. Our study was supposed to start with 1 Corinthians. When I turned there, I immediately saw the writing in my Bible. Of course I said yes, and that continues to be the best decision I have ever made.

The week of July 7th-12th, Alex and I were chaperones for a youth camp at Freed-Hardeman. Monday evening, Alex and I snuck away and went on a date to our favorite restaurant, The Blacksmith. We took the motorcycle, and coincidentally on the way to the restuarant, we saw the professor who taught the class we met in. Dinner was great, but I could tell something was up with Alex. Once we ate, we went back to school and decided to spend a few minutes alone in Gardner Center (the same place he asked me to be his girlfriend). Alex told me his Dad had asked him a question about a passage in 1 Corinthians 13:9-10, which says, "For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears." I read the passage to him and soon discovered that he had written in the margin of my Bible (right underneath where he asked me to be his girlfriend), "Will you marry me?" He told me that he no longer wants to be "in part" but rather complete and he needed me to do that. He asked me to complete him and spend the rest of my life with him. That evening friends and family surrounded us with love, and this stands as the best night of my entire life. We're so excited to share this next chapter of our lives with you! See you in Tupelo!