WE ARE GETTING MARRIED!!

We’ve created this website as a convenient and interactive way to share all of the important details with you in the lead up to our wedding celebration. You can read more about our love story, get to know our wonderful wedding party, find some ways to explore the beauty of Victoria Falls, and find answers to some frequently asked questions by exploring the pages above. Have fun, take a look around, and please don’t forget to RSVP by December 4th! Finally – thank you for your ongoing love and support. We are so excited to share this glorious day with you!

As many couples do these days, Mazvita and I met online. I can’t even lie, I had seen her profile many, many times and I hoped and prayed every time that today would be the day. I went two years without it being the day. Finally I got that match and I was over the moon. Leading up to the first date, I was jokingly telling everyone that I was going to meet my wife. The day finally came and for the first time in my life, I was nervous for a first date. So nervous, that during the date I was unable to find literally anything to say to her. My jokes we falling flat and there were lengthy silences at times. I found out months later that I was doing so well on this date that Maz was actively thinking of exit strategies before we even finished the chips and salsa. I somehow swindled her into thinking this thriller of a date would continue being this awesome if we just continued on to a picnic. I knew I needed backup if I wanted to secure a second date so we grabbed my dog. It worked! Quick S/O to Oliver for coming along and calming my nerves and convincing Maz to love him. We spent the rest of the date bonding over music taste and life goals. Over the next year, we experienced a bond neither of us had ever felt before. True love. A true love that is kind, understanding, thoughtful, and peaceful. We always joke that we have nothing in common. I love to hike. Maz absolutely does not. Maz loves to dance. I’m white. What we do have in common though is much more important. There is not a single day where either of us wake up and do not find a way to enrich each other’s lives and our relationship in some way, big or small. We want to build a healthy relationship and take actions towards that every single day. I sometimes still don’t feel that it’s real. That I could have possibly found someone so perfect for me in every way. I thank God every single day for what probably happened as her 'accidentally' liking my profile and us falling in love was apart of his plan for me. I love that her middle name is Joy because that’s what she brings into my life every single day.

It was the beginning of 2021 and the quarantine mandate had just been lifted, we were all trying to figure out what the new ‘normal’ looked like. What does dating even look like post pandemic? There was no manual or script on how one was supposed to navigate our new reality. On a whim ( 1000% encouragement from my girlfriends) I decided do give online dating a try and one of the first people to show up on my screen was Daniel! I swiped right and the words “ IT'S A MATCH” beamed back at me, talk about a classic modern love story right? Putting into words the journey Daniel & I have been on to get here is impossible. How can words give something so miraculous and sacred justice? There is something about Daniel that kept drawing me near to him, I found myself wanting to speak to him everyday, and after we met, I wanted to keep seeing him again. It was intense, but equally gentle. Like fire , it ignites and crackles - being next to him made me feel vulnerable and explosive. But Like water, what we share together refreshes me, it soothes and calms me. As if my soul has waited a lifetime to exist in this moment with him, He is my person and there is nobody else I could feel whatever this is, with. I wouldn't want this love with anyone but him. It is ours. We learned it together. A language we both struggled to grasp until it was us.