We're Getting Married!

We met at church camp the summer before our junior year of high school, already unexpected because neither of us were supposed to be there. My church wasn't even signed up for that camp originally, and he was supposed to be playing summer ball... until a knee injury changed his plans. Thankfully so or I would've never been able to call dibs on "the blonde guy." After camp 2019, life went back to normal until in Spring of 2020 I decided to DM him on instagram. What followed were countless FaceTimes through COVID, long conversations, and getting to know each other from 500 miles away, me in Laurel, Mississippi and him in Knoxville Tennessee. We made things official on September 18, 2020, and finally got to meet in person again in January 2021 when I had to explain to my parents that there was this guy I had been FaceTiming and I wanted him to come stay in our empty room for a few days. Somehow they went along with this and ended up loving and accepting him as a part of the family. Our entire relationship was long distance. Four and a half years of countless trips back and forth and many hard goodbyes. In November of 2024 Logan closed the gap and moved to Laurel. He worked incredibly hard and thanks to some generous family friends, he rented nearby, and we got to experience everyday life together for the first time. This included walking to downtown Laurel for dinner or ice cream dates. On those walks was a little wishing fountain. When he was going to propose he brought us back there. He parked near his old house and suggested we take our usual walk, casually saying, "I brought a quarter for you to make a wish in the fountain. I only brought one, so it'll just be you." I made my wish (him forever, obviously), turned around... and saw him on one knee. I actually thought it was a joke until I saw the ring. From a church camp we weren't meant to attend, to years of long distance, to a wishing fountain that became the start of forever, this has always been a story of God's perfect timing and intentional plan. Our meeting was never coincidental because nothing God does is by happenstance. We're endlessly grateful for a love He was quietly writing long before we understood it, and for a relationship that proved every mile and season of waiting was worth it.