Ryan, originally from Oregon, made the decision to move across the country when he was accepted into the UNC PharmD program in Asheville. Katie went to Asheville to visit her childhood best friend, Sadie, who just so happened to be in the same class as Ryan. After meeting Ryan for the first time, Katie was smitten. She knew immediately that she wanted to marry him. Some may say that's some stalker stuff, and I would say you're right, but now we're getting married so it worked out ok. A few months pass by before Katie and Ryan see each other again, March 14th to be exact. The annual St Patty's Day bar crawl. Sadie & Katie had plans to go to this bar crawl together, but Katie wasn't feeling well. At the last minute she got her sh*t together and decided to meet her friends downtown. If you know Katie, you know she regularly would never drive downtown alone to meet friends, especially when there are thousands of people out and about crawling from bar to bar, but this time was different. Ryan would be there. On that night, 4 years ago, we fell in love in da club, and at the same time, Katie was offered a job promotion she would have to move to Asheville for. She made the move, and the rest is history!

After Ryan graduated from UNC, he was accepted into a residency program in Winston-Salem. The move would be tough since we spent the previous 3 years building a life in Asheville. But we found a beautiful apartment with exposed brick so that made it a littttttttle bit easier. The plan on move-in day was Ryan and Katie would meet Katie's family at the new apartment to help unload the U-Haul. Ryan and Katie got to the apartment before her family, and before anything had been brought inside, Ryan took Katie's hand and led her to what would be their new bedroom. As we stood there taking in the new view, Katie could feel Ryan's heart start to pound a little harder. Katie looked at him and he smiled before dropping to one knee. Ryan planned the timing perfectly knowing the plan was to have Katie's whole family there to celebrate. He even arranged to have a friend of ours hide and take pictures of the proposal. While we waited for family, we danced in the empty apartment, to what will be our wedding song.