We will forever be thankful Wolfpack Football and great friends who brought us together on December 30, 2012. We each traveled with separate groups of friends to Nashville, TN to watch the Wolfpack take on Vanderbilt in the Music City Bowl. The night before the game two of our mutual friends decided it would be fun for us to all get dinner and drinks and we were officially introduced. The next evening, which happened to be New Year's Eve, we all decided to go to Honky Tonk together. Austin asked Charlotte to dance and we've been dancing through life together ever since!

After a little over a year of dating, Austin started a job working as a mechanical engineer in Knoxville, TN and Charlotte began medical school in Morgantown, WV. We would spend every third weekend together and cherished every minute of it, even if we spent more time driving than together. After two years, Charlotte relocated to Charleston, WV for her clinical rotations and the drive got a little shorter and the visits became a little more frequent. We are so excited to begin this next chapter and finally be in the same city - how sweet it will be!

We had plans to meet Charlotte's lovely bridesmaid, Katherine, and her boyfriend in Asheville, NC for the weekend and Austin decided he wanted go to dinner at the Grove Park Inn before they arrived. Before dinner, he was very anxious about the amount of time we had before our reservations, but Charlotte was clueless, so she was taking her sweet time! We arrived at the Grove Park Inn and it was sprinkling rain, but Austin wanted to walk out onto some of the terraces before dinner to check out the mountain view. We walked out and were admiring the view when he got down on one knee and proposed! Complete surprise!! After the engagement, we had dinner on the porch and were so excited we hardly ate a bite! The rest of the weekend we got to spend celebrating with our sweet friends.