WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!

We want to take this time to express our joy at being able to celebrate our marriage with you. However, in light of Covid 19 and in an abundance of caution, we have decided to cancel any large functions. We sent a link on 10/2/2020 for our intimate celebration so that our extended family and friends could participate virtually. If you overlooked it or it ended up in your junk email, it is still available. https://youtu.be/7wJxUoWfico If you just want to see highlights, there's a video for that too. https://youtu.be/TN2R_u_lHvw We love you! J & A

In September 2016, we were both in the bridal party of a wedding in DC for our close friends, Jamelle and Trey. We had an awesome time celebrating our friends with the rest of the bridal party but didn't connect that Labor day weekend. Fast forward to Veteran's Day (about 2 months later), I "slid into Jay's DMs" on Instagram, not even on anything flirtatious, but more to thank him for his service. We have talked every day since then! At the time, Jay lived in Rochester, NY and I was in Atlanta, GA. We figured out pretty quickly that we wanted to explore the feelings we were developing through our long distance communications. We skyped, talked on the phone and texted A LOT for about a month and half. Then one day, we decided that a New Years trip to visit the newlyweds was in order. We met up in DC and had a great time together. Our connection was pretty undeniable and on New Years Eve Eve (Yes December 30th lol), Jay asked me to be his girlfriend. I agreed :) 2017 presented its own challenges, because we spent a lot of time meeting up in various parts of the country. We saw each other about 1 time every other month. We did that for about 10 months until Jay decided in October 2017 to move to Atlanta. Since then, we have traveled some more, had a lot of fun dates, taken care of Ascot (our dog). Most importantly, we got engaged!

We took a trip to Paris in September 2019, we had an amazing time. The highlight was,obviously, his proposal! We were scheduled to take pictures the morning of September 26th that we had planned to commemorate our beautiful trip. Well, little did I know Jay was planning too. He had coordinated with a friend, who happened to be in Paris, to film our photo session. I met her that morning (right before pictures began) and assumed that she lived in Paris lol. We went through the photo session until it begin to drizzle harder. The photographer had suggested that we go to a cafe nearby to get more photos out of the rain. I was okay with that and as we were getting ready to head out, Jay told the photographer that before we left that spot that he had something to say. Then he tells me all of the beautiful things (that we'll keep between us :)), gets down on his knee and asked me to be his wife. SPOILER ALERT: I SAID YES!!!! We are so abundantly blessed to have the love and support of our friends and family! You guys mean the world to us! Love, Andromeda and Jay