It's all happening!

We met in 2006 in our first semester of college at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. We were both art majors at the time and were in a lot of the same classes. We hung out in the same group of friends and started to get to know each other more and more. The month that we were out of school on Christmas break in 2007, we talked to each other for hours a day, realizing just how much we were missing one another. On January 17, 2008, Jillian got back to Lafayette and after exchanging some Christmas presents, Alfred asked her to be his girlfriend. The rest is history!

We were moving out of our apartment in Oakland, CA on December 9, 2016. We had decided to move to Texas so that we could be closer to both of our families in the South. We had only driven a few hours from Oakland when Alfred suggested we stop in Carmel, CA to take some pictures by the Pacific Ocean before it got dark. We had already planned our road trip to include some scenic spots, so we were prepared with our camera and tripod. Once Alfred got the camera all set up with the timer, we were ready to take our pictures! As soon as the timer was about to go off, Alfred got down on one knee and popped the question! Jillian was so surprised and shocked, all she kept repeating was, "Are you kidding? Is this real?" Of course she said yes, and they spent the next few days of their road trip basking in the excitement of planning their wedding!