Zach and I grew up going to the same church, but we didn't become friends until senior year of high school, when we were in a jazz choir together and we sat at the same table in AP Lit. On March 3rd, we went on our first official date and Zach asked me to be his girlfriend! We spent the next few years mostly apart as I went to school in Hillsdale, Michigan and Zach went to school in Duluth. Then on July 31st of this past summer, we got engaged at the Leif Erikson Rose Garden in Duluth! Zach had been writing me letters since our third anniversary in March, which he gave to me to read before he proposed. It was the best day of my life, and I am so excited to celebrate the love that God has blessed us with this upcoming May!