The story of Jason and Grace began in 2022, when they began attending the same church. They interacted here and there, exchanging words through October. But it wasn’t until the Fall Ball, hosted that November by their church, that they started to really get to know each other, dancing the Snowball Reel and talking about the Redwall series. At Tuesday night dancing, at church, at friends’ weddings, the two of them grew closer. They discovered shared ideals, goals, values, and interests. They started to click. Then, about mid-December, Jason asked her father’s permission to court Grace. On Tuesday, December 13th, he asked Grace. And so their courtship began. This chapter of their lives lasted over a year. Throughout 2023, their courtship changed them with every moment spent together. Hanging out with their families and friends. Listening to podcasts about the Christian home. Watching movies (including a Lord of the Rings marathon). Planting gardens. Swing dancing. Laughing and living and learning so much together. Building up a foundation of faith and purity, and falling always deeper in love with each other. It was in the season of Advent that the day finally came: the best day before the Best Day. In the town of Graham, on Wednesday, December 20th, Jason got down on one knee and asked Grace to be his wife. She gave him an eager and emphatic yes. That is their story so far. Now it continues, as they both ask their family and friends to join them on the true Best Day—the day their covenant will be sealed with their first kiss, and the day their lives will be joined forever in marriage!