"It's a little bit of everything."

We first officially met in November 2015 in an audition room in Virginia, but quickly realized we had far more in common than we thought. We attended college 20 minutes apart, worked at the same Shakespeare camp at different times, shared a good friend (hi Erica!). We'd even unknowingly attended Danny Boyle's filmed production of Frankenstein at the Regal Greensboro Grande Stadium 16 on the same nights. Soon after being cast in Almost, Maine together (as exes!), we started dating, and both realized immediately we were in it for the long haul.

Our time together has been defined by some pretty big moments. We started a theatre company together. We moved in together. We survived Liz's summer concert season four times together. We successfully battled Jack's cancer together. And, finally, we bought a house in Nashville together. But our time together is not solely defined by big moments. We obsess over our cats and dog on a daily basis. We look for artwork to buy for the house. We casually shoot baby names back and forth for when the time comes. We quote Ponyo, one of our favorite movies, to a degree that might annoy anyone else but the other. We watch the same SNL sketches over and over again (Panthers meow! Cobras hisss!) We argue over whether or not Jack scratches Liz's back enough (our respective answers: "I do" "he doesn't").

And it's these small moments that built up to the biggest one. For our 1st anniversary, Liz made Jack a replica of the Adventure Book from Pixar's Up, leaving blank pages at the end. On June 14th, 2019, Jack proposed to Liz, filling up the remainder of the book with a list of 118 meaningful stories, moments, gifts, items, pictures and songs - an exploration of just some of the things that defined our time together. It took four hours. It was nonlinear. A few things had to be improvised. There was a lot to clean up in the end. We were both feeling sick. And it was perfect. “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” ~ T.S. Eliot (Header and Footer Photos by Haley Clare Photography)