We bumped into each other outside of a college party, on one of the first weekends of the Fall '15 semester. We both immediately recognized each other from a small conversation we had before on social media and introduced ourselves and started talking. Maria was avoiding someone who kept bothering her all night, and as he was walking up to her, she told Josh to pretend to be her boyfriend so that he could leave her alone, and he did. After that and Josh being smooth with words, numbers were exchanged. Literally, the next day, when Maria got out of church, she ran into Josh again on her way back to her dorm and they hung out.

Josh took Maria on a cruise for 1 week to Costa Maya, Belize, and Cozumel. It was both their first time being on a cruise. The day they got back from the cruise, Josh got on one knee and proposed to Maria - exactly 1 year from the day they both graduated college.

We went ahead and tied the knot on New Year's Day before all the craziness with COVID-19. Cool right? We get fireworks every year on our anniversary! Our biggest thing was making sure our lives were lined up with God's plan for us. Also, Josh was getting ready to head to the military, so we just decided to tie the knot. Although it wasn't ideal to do it without all of our family and friends, we were so excited to do so with our parents in the room, plus we loved each other so much we did not want to wait!

Fast forward to having to reschedule our dream wedding multiple times due to COVID-19, training, a deployment, and many obstacles that were thrown our way, we are finally here to say it’s time to celebrate! It’s been a crazy whirlwind of emotions, but we are so excited to finally get to enjoy this moment with you all! Thank you for all playing a major role in our relationship and in our lives.