Dear Family & Friends, Due to current restrictions and regulations in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made the difficult decision to postpone our wedding celebration. We recognize the majority of you will need to travel to join us and we want to ensure you will be able to do so safely and comfortably. We plan to still say "I Do" in a private ceremony this November. We hope you will still join us for a vow renewal and reception November 20, 2021. We appreciate your love and understanding during this time. Love, The Soon-To-Be Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius

COVID-19 has changed our big day tremendously this year, but that hasn't changed the fact that we want to get married. We will be holding a small ceremony at 4:30 pm (central time) on Sunday, November 22, 2020 at Clark Gardens in Weatherford, TX. We will ask you all to join our private Facebook page where we will broadcast our ceremony so you can all view and be with us virtually. We understand this is not the same as spending the day with us in-person, but hope you will understand and join us in our intimate celebration. We look forward to seeing you all next year to celebrate twice as big!

Robert was just a cute boy that was friends with one of my friends in middle school. After messaging on Facebook and texting for months, we finally went on a date to the movies and saw Water for Elephants. And I thought I loved him then. As kids do, we broke up and didn't talk for a few years, until our freshman year of college when we started casually chatting again. Things didn't actually get serious until the following year. We actually went to schools that were three hours apart but spent a lot of weekends visiting each other. Robert FINALLY asked me to be his girlfriend on October 1, 2017. It wasn't a straight and smooth path to get here, but definitely so worth it. And ~the rest is history.~

Following graduation in 2019, we made our big move to Dallas, Texas. We rented a little house with a backyard for our dogs and started a new chapter of life. Every Saturday we go on a date, so I didn't think too much about our date on that day. We were going to the Arboretum to see the fall display, there were over 90,000 pumpkins and I had been begging to go. After we moved, we went to the Arboretum as one of our first dates and absolutely loved it. I love all things fall, so the display was (I thought) going to be the highlight of my month. We decided we would look cute so we could ask a stranger to take our picture, we hadn't taken any since we moved away from North Carolina. The entire morning, Robert was rushing me to get ready. He kept telling me we had to be back home by a certain time so he could start dinner and it wouldn't be done too late (he was planning on making chicken and dumplings. I had no idea how long this took so I believed him). In reality, we were on a schedule for the day. When we walked through the gates, Robert started following a map and walking through the crowd. He said he was trying to get on a good path to walk through the gardens and I really didn't question it, Robert is usually our guide through the city, restaurants, planning, everything really. So we're walking through the different paths and finally come to this pretty archway, and there aren't many people around so he said we should take our picture in this secluded spot. I agreed and he asked (who I thought was) a stranger to take our picture and handed her a phone to take it. As we were getting ready to pose and I started smiling at the camera, Robert dropped to one knee and told me, "it had always been me." He asked me to marry him! This "stranger" was actually a photographer he hired to follow and take pictures of our proposal and then through the rest of the gardens. Afterward, we called our family, grabbed a bottle of champagne, and went home to eat chicken and dumplings.