We first met in the fall of 2014 as wide-eyed, first-years at the University of Virginia. Carlin had heart eyes for Andrew from the first Monday night she saw him playing acoustic guitar for the worship team at their fellowship’s large group, and Andrew has a vivid memory of meeting Carlin fireside under the stars at their Fall Retreat. There were several more run-ins before a deep friendship formed, including a chilly Halloween evening where Andrew soap-whittled a heart that Carlin sneakily stole off the barnyard table and kept fondly in her dorm-room desk all year long. As the years progressed we began to cherish each other’s friendship deeply, until the day Andrew took a leap and invited Carlin to his house date-function under a shared umbrella on a rainy walk home from class. And the rest is history (with a future that we’re pretty excited about).