Our Adventure Continues!

Brittini: Well I joined the worship team in like February of 2017 Alex: And I in February of 2018. I first saw and met her our first time playing together on March 11. I came in the back area where we hang out before service and tried to start a conversation and she just kinda like brushed me off. Rejected me Brittini: I didn't reject him I was getting ready for service Alex: So a couple days later I saw that Bethlehem was looking for musicians and singers for a special service on April 8 that they were doing so I thought I'd do it Brittini: I had no interest in doing it. I was scheduled to sing for Easter that year on April 1 and its a big deal at Hopevale. It's pretty draining so I wasn't going to worry about learning new songs and getting up early on my one day off Alex: The pastor at Bethlehem messaged me that we didn't have enough singers for the service and asked if I knew anyone that could help out so I messaged Brittini two days after she sang on Easter Brittini: I received this random Facebook message from someone trying to contact me and thought "okay I guess?" I opened it up and it was Alex. I faintly remembered him from playing together. Basically he said he watched me sing on Easter and I did a great job, the rest was him asking me to sing for Bethlehem that coming up Sunday because they needed female vocalists so I agreed. I told my sister I really didn't want to, but he was cute so I was gonna go Alex: I basically flipped out when I saw she agreed Brittini: The day of, both our moms showed up and hit it off right away. Afterwards they were still talking and we joined in. That night he messaged me again and thanked me for coming and then we just started talking and it turned into a 5 1/2 hr conversation that ended at 2:30 am. It was CRAZY. We just clicked Alex: The next day I had a test and thankfully passed despite her keeping me up Brittini: Excuse me? Alex: And yeah this trend of staying up late talking continued for the next couple weeks

Brittini: After a few weeks of talking I found out Alex had only seen 1/4 of the Disney movies out there and was baffled. I mean who hasn't seen Cinderella? Or The Lion King?? Alex: To be fair I have seen Finding Nemo and know almost every single line of Toy Story 1&2. I said I would need to have a Disney movie marathon to keep up with all her Disney quotes. Brittini: That's really how our relationship grew so fast. We spent literally every night together watching movies until midnight when he had to leave for his security job. Alex: Before that started though we had our first date. I found out Brittini was co directing a play at Peace and decided to go and then take her out afterwards Brittini: I didn't think it was a date. In fact I told my mom it wasn't and that we were just friends to which she told me I was oblivious Alex: And she was Brittini: It was the first time we'd seen each other in person since the church service so at this point our relationship was only over text. It felt like starting over from scratch but we clicked pretty easily again. Alex: On April 27th we watched two movies and by the time the second one finished it was 2 am on April 28th. I had dozed off a couple times with her in my arms and when the movie finished I looked at her and asked her to be my girlfriend. Her response was the cutest thing ever. She looked up at me groggily and said Brittini: Something along the lines of, "Took you long enough."

Alex: Brittini had talked about what she wanted when we got engaged. Somewhere for just her and I. Private and Intimate Brittini: Alex talked about a trip to Florida for our 1 year dating anniversary. It was our first big trip together but by then we'd had some fights, close calls, and we had grown a lot both relationship wise and in our personal lives Alex: Brittinis dream job was in Clearwater Florida so that's where I decided to take her. Brittini: It was absolutely gorgeous and we left the day after our last day of class so it was great to get away Alex: The night of our 1 year I took her out on a walk on the beach like we'd done every night we had been there. Brittini: The stars were so bright and the sea was calmly rolling up on the sand up to our bare feet. It was perfect. We had gotten out pretty far, a lot farther than usual, but he kept complaining about all the people out. I looked at him weird and laughed. I told him to chill cause there were literally only 8 people on that beach. Once he was satisfied with the lack of people he settled down Alex: I asked her why she thought I brought her to Clearwater to which she looked at me funny and said "Cause it's Florida. Why not?" Brittini: He looked me straight in the eyes and said, "It's cause I wanted to ask you something." Alex: I got down on one knee and pulled out the ring box I'd been fidgeting with in my pocket the entire walk and offered her the ring and asked her, "Will you marry me?" Brittini: I was speechless. Unlike most girls I hadn't thought about this moment over and over in my head. Alex: I think I caught her off guard cause she sat there for a good minute with her hands over her mouth Brittini: "Yes!"

We are so excited to share this day with you. It means the moon and stars to us that you have been apart of our Love Story. Whether you have directly supported us in our lives today or were praying over us in our younger years. We are who we are because of the influences you've had in our lives and that is why we come together to celebrate. So thank you! Here's to all our Adventures in life.