We met for the first time at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting where we were in the same trivia group. Later we found out that we were neighbors which set the ball rolling for us to begin dating!

FCA has played a big part in our relationship. In October of 2019, Beach Retreat was coming up and Andrew wasn't planning on going, but I managed to convince him to attend. During that weekend, we spent hours upon hours, talking and getting to know one another. In the week after Beach Retreat, Andrew's car battery died, so I offered to help jumpstart his car and follow him to an auto store, just in case the car broke down again. Once the car was repaired, we spent two hours just sitting in the car talking again (you would think we would have run out of things to say after Beach Retreat), where at the end he invited me to go to church with him on Sunday. He asked me out on an official date after church! On my birthday, exactly four days after our first date, Andrew met my parents for the first time. He asked me to be his girlfriend at the end of the night!

Andrew and I like to joke that our relationship is a little unconventional. We've known for a long time that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together, and we might have picked out a wedding date and venue before we actually became engaged. OOPS! Andrew proposed to me in The Chapel that we will get married in this summer! We had decided to take Andrew's mom and sister to tour the venue since they were in town and had not seen it in person. Once we got to the front of the chapel, I found a bouquet of roses that I thought was left by the previous wedding party. Andrew tells me the roses are for me where he then got down on one knee and proposed!

We are just two huge dorks that love Disney, Star Wars, LEGOS, Funko POPS, and all other nerdy things. Andrew and I will both have graduated with our Master's degrees and have jobs in Panama City by the time of the wedding. Andrew will be an electrical engineer at the Navy base, and I will start my career as a middle school math teacher at Bay Haven Charter Academy. We can't wait to share our special day with everyone we love!