The Wedding

Friends for 15 years, and no clue this is where God would lead us. God's timing is perfect; He brought us together in June of 2018, SHE fell in love (he was already in love), and now we're finally tying the knot!

Jake and I have been friends for 15 years. According to him he asked me out 5 years ago and I shot him down. However, it just wasn't God's timing. After deciding in February that I was going to fully surrender everything into God's hands and let go of control, God used my surrendered will to bring me the desire of my heart. I had finally given up control on what he was going to bring into my life. Lo and behold, Jake. This past May, I walked into his house one evening because we were hanging out with a mutual friend and something totally came over me. A feeling I'd never felt before. Feelings of attraction and a deeper connection to this man. I was totally caught off guard by this moment but tried to remain cool for the rest of the evening. Fast forward to a week or so later after much prayer and seeking wisdom we decided we wanted to give it a try! God must have a plan for all of this so we were excited to find out what it was. Three weeks later he officially asked me to be his girlfriend. After being good friends for 15 years, knowing each others families, and having EVERYONE! tell us they had been waiting for us to get together, there was a peace about being with him. We knew we weren't going to date for too long since we've known each other awhile, so it wasn't really crazy to us that after 3 months of dating we got engaged. I am blessed to be marrying a man who loves me so deeply, who tries to be understanding to my needs/fears, and loves the Lord. I am excited to see where God continues to lead us together! Just remember that God's timing is perfect. :)

We certainly have known each other for 15 years, and I think I liked her for about 14 of those years! We were young and dumb then, so things kinda went off and on back and forth through our middle and high school years. Yet any time that relationships came up in my own life, or in discussions with anyone, Cora always came up. "Nah, I think we kinda tried that already," was typically my rationalization. God had other ideas, when He kept prodding my heart through the years, and finally prodded us both at the same time. When Cora told me how she felt, all I could do was smile at the thought that "this sounds like it's actually happening! I've been waiting for this!" God continued to work in us as we sought wisdom from friends and family, and we decided to take the plunge together! We dated for about a month and I realized I loved this woman, and reaaaaaaally wanted to tell her. And it wasn't too long after that that she felt the same way. After getting some more counsel, we knew this is what we wanted to do.