It's finally happening!

Unfortunately, due to COVID related issues, Ian and I have decided it would be best to reduce our wedding to a family only event. This was a tough decision and not what we wanted to happen, but it is the only way to ensure we can confidently move forward at our planned wedding date. To everyone else we invited, we love you, we wish we could have celebrated with you in person, and we apologize if this caused any inconveniences.

Ian likes to joke that he decided to date the first girl he met in college, and it just happened to work out. The joke gets funnier because the sentiment is true: Ian and Emily met only hours of us arriving to campus. We hardly knew anyone besides our roommates who dragged us to an ice cream social during freshman orientation weekend, and somehow, by an act of God (and Ian's roommate who was very interested in meeting girls), we bumped into each other. In fact, we joke about the credit his roommate deserves for introducing us, because we have never run across each other on campus since that day. If it wasn't for him choosing us out of a sea of freshmen, you may not be here reading this today. So, after talking and swapping Snapchats, Emily was so excited to start making platonic guy friends (because it seemed so impossible in high school), but, for some reason, she couldn't quit thinking about that tall, freckled guy. They were always texting or Snapchatting (usually both), and they would take breaks in between only for laps around campus just to talk. They would sometimes get 5-6 miles in a day in 100 degree heat if that meant they could find a reason to spend time together. Ian would even go the long way to his dorm from class just to run into Emily for a few seconds as she went to her afternoon lecture. Also, a few weeks into the semester, Ian invited Emily to Freshman Challenge, a BCM (Baptist Collegiate Ministries) event for freshman. That's where they met a ton of friends, grew closer together, and Emily learned that the cute, tall boy was a Christian and meant it. Plus, it gave them more reasons to see each other where they didn't have to awkwardly ask each other to hang out. And only a few months later, Ian found the nerve to finally ask Emily out, and before she realized what was happening, she said yes. Then the two kids who had never really dated started on this journey together, became "the couple" in college, and never looked back.