Hey everyone! Chase and Jordan here. We hope you're well and that all of this craziness hasn't driven you absolutely bonkers like it has us. In light of the situation surrounding COVID-19, we have made the difficult decision to have a small, intimate ceremony for only our immediate family and closest friends on our original wedding date. However, we will still be having a large celebration for everyone later in the year! We are hopeful for a late summer celebration and we will send out details for that as soon as we have them. Thank you so much for supporting us during this time and for surrounding us with love.

Chase and I met at a Memorial Day cookout back in May of 2018 after much effort from his aunt and cousin to set us up. He had started attending Richland Creek a couple months earlier and apparently had been trying to talk to me since he started attending but didn't seize his opportunity until the cookout (totally ask his family for their version of how that went lol). The typical thing happened, he introduced himself while I was having a conversation with his aunt and then a few days later he friended me on Facebook and then slid in those DMs about 10 minutes after that. He was wisely tipped that my favorite coffee shop was Sola and so HE suggested we go there so he could "hear about my upcoming trip to Haiti". We were on that date for three hours and we were practically attached at the hip from then on. In August I went to Haiti for three weeks and he went back to Wilmington for school which was a big adjustment from being together every day but we figured it out and adjusted our relationship to match.

I knew it was getting real when after only four months of dating (roughly October 2018) he asked me "how soon is too soon?", referring to getting married. That's what really opened up the conversation for talking about the rest of our lives. We went ring shopping in May of 2019 and, of course, I need to be involved in EVERYTHING so I was there when he put a ring on layaway and put down a payment on it. He kept everything really, really, REALLY secretive from then on though. I didn't find out a single thing other than him slipping up and telling me he had bought the ring and it was hidden at his house, and I didn't even find that out until the day before he proposed. Chase proposed on June 30th, 2019 which was also our one year anniversary. We went to church that morning, went back to my place for lunch and exchanged gifts and then just hung out for awhile. Then we got in the car and he made me put on a blindfold and we went to the baseball field where he played church softball. At some point during our relationship, after one of his games, I told him that I wanted our lives to be like this. I wanted to get married and have kids and come watch him play during the summer and just have it be sweet and relaxed and chill. I had no idea he remembered that but he did. I was so oblivious that even after the blindfold I had no idea what was going on. He parked the car by the field and led me down to the field and I still didn't realize what was going on until I took the blindfold off and I was standing in a circle of rose petals and he was down on one knee with the ring we picked out *cue the sweet, sappy speech with teary eyes*. Then we went back to his parents house to tell them and both of our families were there plus several close friends. I'm talking like 40 people at his parents house. I'm not a big groups person at all, but that was pretty awesome.