We met in January 2017 after Emily moved to Bozeman, MT for graduate school. Paul led worship at Bozeman E Free and Emily joined the worship team as a musician. For nearly three years, we were just friends serving on the worship team together and occasionally hanging out with groups of friends. We shared mutual respect for each other, but didn’t catch each other’s eye until we’d both experienced several years of deep personal growth as individuals. We started to get to know each other better in August 2019 and began dating on September 10. 11 months and one pandemic later, we got engaged on August 18, 2020 up at Whitefish Lake in Whitefish, MT. We agreed that it was the easiest question Paul’s ever asked and the easiest yes that Emily’s ever given! Today we look back with joy and gratitude at how God brought us to where we are today. Neither of us believed the whole “when you know, you know” thing until it happened to us. We both feel like we’re marrying someone who is way out of our league and can’t believe that God would give us the gifts of each other! We’re excited to celebrate with you next June as the two of us become one!