06.27.2026

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It was love at first sight... from my (Alison's) perspective. I had been praying for my future husband since I wanted to be a mom... which was since I was probably around 10. When I was younger, I thought that I was going to meet my future husband like my parents did in junior high. Boy was I wrong. By the time my friend Candace reached out saying her and her husband Josh had someone they wanted me to meet, I was 24, had no prospects, and had pretty much given up on the idea all together. However, when Candace said that this was something that both she and Josh had prayed over for the past year and still felt strongly about it. I went to the Lord myself in prayer and begrudgingly agreed to meet this guy. However, I asked Candace for a picture and name since I refused to go into the date COMPLETELY blind. The photo she showed me blew my mind. Not just in the “Wow… This guy is HOT sense” but also in a “Oh crap, I’ve seen this guy before” sense. I frantically stalked Facebook to see if my suspicions were correct and, at the time, they unfortunately were. My family and I had attended the GLOW Christmas concert at Chapel Hill just one month before and sat in the very front row. During the event, I remember my eyes drifting from the lyrics on the screen to the tall, focused, (and do I even need to say?) very cute Bass player on stage right. Being the person that I am, I refused to go up and introduce myself simply because I thought he was good looking so I hadn’t even thought about him because “there’s no WAY that guy isn’t taken”. I was scared to meet him, because my sister (in the front row) had been covering her ears to protect them from the “level of decibels” emanating from the music. I. Was. Horrified. That he was going to somehow remember this and walk out of the restaurant. Thankfully, this didn’t happen and I was relieved to find he didn’t seem to recognize me at all. Nate says he could tell from the first date that I was into him. He wasn’t wrong. Not only was he taller and older than I thought he was, but he also seemed to have a solid faith, relationship with his family and friends, and didn’t look at his phone the entire date. When we started dating, I was skeptical (since I couldn’t find any red flags), but excited. It didn’t take long for me to think that he was the one and every time I doubted this, God always sent me a vote of confidence through a person, feeling, or “coincidence”. Long story short, it was the easiest yes I’ve said, and I’m very excited to spend the rest of my life with this man. - Alison Taylor