We are so excited to celebrate with you!

I met Eric in the beginning of high school in the ninth grade. I remember telling my bible study leader that the cute boy with red hair opened the door for me at school, and that I wanted to get to know him so bad! We got closer throughout high school, even going to homecoming together junior year as friends. During the middle of our senior year, we both had feelings for each other, but since college was coming we wanted to stay friends. Well— that didn’t work (and I am so grateful that it didn’t!). Eric asked me to be his girlfriend and even though I knew I would probably say yes, I told him that I would think about it and get back to him in a few days. We went on our first official date in March of senior year— where Eric decided to tell me that God told him the next girl he dated would be the one he would marry, and that that was me. This absolutely terrified me because I was so nervous about messing up our friendship— and I still wasn’t completely sure about my feelings towards him! But after the night ended and I went back home, I went to bed feeling over the moon and eager for what was to come. Eric told me he loved me at our senior prom, during the last slow dance. I knew it was coming— and even though I loved being with him, I wasn’t sure if I was there yet. I told him that I wasn't ready to say it, but that I was close.:) A few months later as he was dropping me home after a date, we were saying goodbye and the words “I love you” came out of my mouth before I realized I even said it- I was going to wait to say it during a special time, but I couldn’t help it. From dating in high school, to being engaged as college graduates, I couldn’t have dreamt of a better person to spend these years with. Eric is steady, devoted, and patient. He is my safe place. He feels like home. I’ve never had someone in my life that I can consistently lean on like him. It hasn’t been easy, and like all relationships it takes work from both sides— but he has given me trust and stability in a way that I’ve never had but needed so badly. We laugh together until our stomachs hurt, we cry when we see the other sad, and we are each other’s trusted confidant. Eric, I am honored to have spent these years with you. I am honored to stand alongside you. I am honored to be your wife. September fourth is already the most cherished day of my life. Oh how lucky I feel!

Taylor Worden is the love of my life. And funny enough I told her on our first date that the next girl I dated I was going to get married to. I still remember when we first hit it off in AP literature together and became fast friends in high school. I remember there was really never a dull moment when we were together and we still spend a lot of our time talking and laughing together even now. I remember the night I told her I wanted to get serious and date, we were watching the stars and it was the perfect setting… however she told me she needed a few days to “mull it over”, eventually she said yes. Prom stood out especially, I remember you looked beautiful in your champagne dress and it was the last dance that night, I told you that I loved you for the first time. Even though high school was almost up and we didn’t know which colleges we were going to, I remember focusing so much on being present in every moment we had together. Through finishing high school there were ups and downs with all the change going on, but God provided a way and we both ended up at Auburn. It was a hard transition moving so far from home leaving friends and family. But we were together and it has been amazing getting to spend so much of our youth growing up together. I remember freshman year of college feeling like it was us against the world, I would drop you off and pick you up from your sorority functions, and we would often go on dates and watch the sunset on the plains of Auburn. We spent a lot of time studying and stressing together but most of all I have loved having Taylor as a loving companion. Many times I would have late nights and all nighters at the studio working and have Taylor encouraging me and making sure I rested also. I have enjoyed being able to be there for Taylor through nursing school as well, she has grown so much and it’s been a joy to see her overcome her greatest challenges together. We have both changed and grown so much. There’s something to be said about growing alongside someone you love and being a rock for one another through the highest and lowest points of your lives. I take this time for Taylor as an honor, each moment spent together was never wasted, every minute a memory to be put always and stored forever in my heart. Time has flown by since when we started dating on March 6th, 2018 with so many cherished memories. I’m fortunate that our faith in God has been a rock through our relationship and provided such a loving girl, a caring companion, and a great cook! Forever with Taylor is the easiest decision of my life. I Love you Taylor, there is no other girl like you and I’m lucky to be able to call you mine forever.