We’re getting Married!

We met as freshman at Whitney Young High School in 2008. We had health class together and we were both on the tennis team too. I (Alex) am from the south side and Davion is from the west side so it was being at a school that brought everyone from around the city together that we can thank for us meeting! And we were truly just friends! We have definitely always cared about each other. Even during college Davion would come stay with me at Northwestern and see my life there. For his 20th birthday, I wrote him a card that included 20 reasons I loved him and told him to cherish it because he would never hear them again (this seriously made me wonder if unconsciously I liked him even then!) and now I get to love him for the rest of my life and tell him everyday! Our love has been slow cooking this entire time.  

Right before our junior year of college in 2014 Davion expressed feelings for me (Alex). He was attending college in Florida at Stetson University and I was just north of Chicago at Northwestern. Truthfully the whole thing freaked me out— especially the distance. I decided I wanted to remain friends. And as you can imagine, things changed in our friendship, but we stayed connected via Instagram, text and the occasional phone calls.   Unexpected life events brought me (Davion) and Alex back into more regular communication in November 2021. We started to have deep conversations discussing God, life, family, and anything else you could think of. Alex even became my stylist for my ESPN+ football broadcasts. We didn’t know it yet, but as our friendship grew stronger so did other feelings. The feelings finally grew so much that it started to weigh on my heart. I faced the dilemma of telling Alex how I felt and maybe losing an amazing friend or not saying anything and she would remain a friend forever. So I took a chance on love and love won. Alex had been reflecting on her feelings for me as well. I (Alex) was actually going through it!! I had just made a decision that it was time to transition from the job I’ve been at the last 7 years, so I was processing that and trying to figure out if I really did like Davion. Everyone who lived in my house and heard my phone conversations were convinced I liked him. But they couldn’t convince me! Because I was COMMITTED to JUST being friends. So I spent a lot of time searching my own heart and getting real with my feelings and finally admitted to myself and my friend that I liked Davion. And that same night he told me how he felt. Once we established that we liked each other it was like the floodgates of love were opened between us! We knew this was it. And in a short amount of time, after a long time, we decided to make loving each other an every day lifelong thing in December 2022.

I (Alex) remember one of the first things I told Davion was “To be honest with you, I’m never moving to Florida.” We knew distance would be our biggest challenge. We agreed to see each other once a month but we knew long distance wouldn’t work for long! Airport drop offs got very old very fast. It was actually in that initial conversation that my heart changed and my mind opened up to the idea. Before I knew it I had fully accepted that I was moving Florida. Everything began to align and we really felt no need to wait!   On April 28, 2023 Davion surprised me in Chicago and proposed. And on September 1st in an intimate ceremony before God and our immediate family we are committing to love one another forever.   Shortly after that, we are driving my car down to Florida to begin our journey together! We are so grateful for all of the love surrounding us, the adventure awaiting us, and the God who has made this all possible and will continue to be with us!