We met at our church, First Presbyterian Church of Augusta. We were in the same Sunday school class, and Kurt had noticed Katie from afar at worship night and other events, but hadn't had the chance to approach her because she was always surrounded by friends. Their first one on one interaction was serving on the communion team one Sunday morning. Kurt noticed the dress Katie was wearing, and decided that he had to get to know this person. They struck up a conversation, and realized that they had a few things in common - spending a lot of time in Birmingham, disliking Georgia football, and traveling. It was a good ice breaker, but some time went by as communion is only so often... Anyone that knows Katie knows that she loves to host parties, and luckily Kurt got invited to her Murder Mystery party for Halloween. Katie sent Kurt a text message outside the group thread to invite him to the party, and Kurt thought to himself, "She must be interested" and decided to shoot his shot! It took Katie by complete surprise, but she said “Yes!” After the first few dates, Kurt knew Katie was special almost instantly! After some more dates and intentional conversation, Katie also felt the same way! Kurt won Katie over with his humor, love for the Lord, and easy going personality. They did fun things around town, met each others parents, traveled, read books together, cooked together and started to really get to know each other. Then on September 15th, 2023 Kurt proposed to Katie at a special spot along the Savannah River. The next day they had a wonderful engagement party to celebrate with family and friends. We are so thankful the Lord put us in each others lives!