WE CAN'T WAIT TO CELEBRATE WITH YOU!

Due to concerns surrounding COVID-19, we have decided to postpone our wedding celebration. Obviously the safety of our guests is our top priority. It was not an easy decision but we know it was the right one. We will still be married that day surrounded by family but look forward to celebrating with everyone in the future. We will update you on those plans when they are available.

It all started around 2005. Katrina attended Page High School. Chase did not. Katrina's friends attended the EYC Youth Group. There, one of Katrina's friends met Chase. The two started dating. Katrina & friends started hanging out with Chase & friends. That’s how we met. Super romantic. (The whole he dated one of my friends is the part Chase likes to leave out or beat around the bush on.) Everyone went off to college. K made a few visits to see friends at UNC/NCSU& occasionally crossed paths with C. During one of these trips, C&K made out in the rain- straight up The Notebook style. DON’T WORRY, CHASE & KATRINA'S FRIEND BROKE UP LONG BEFORE THIS. Apart from those trips C & K didn't keep in super close touch, just an occasional message here & there. Life went on. (I was going to write we here but Chase would correct me, so I will just go ahead and say I). Katrina would reach out to wish Chase happy birthday or check-in-literally once or twice a year. (I distinctly remember talking to Chase about starting a non-profit. K told C he should do it. K said everyone tells me I should start one but I can't decide what to eat for dinner so I think you should do it & let me help. That never panned out- K helping that is. The whole starting a non-profit did & Chase crushed it. In 2013 C invited K to be his date at the Vs.Cancer kick-off event. Later, the non-profit life brought C to Charleston where the 2 spent an evening walking on the beach & drinking wine but the next morning C was gone. Then K went to South Africa, C went to business school, texts or birthday calls from Katrina were the norm. Until 2017. It was C’s birthday. K called, C answered. During the call K learned C would be in ATL for the summer. K was planning to help a friend in ATL move. During this visit we hung out at an ATL United game. As we were saying goodbye K kissed C, walking away thinking she just ruined a friendship. Obviously that didn’t happen. WE ARE GETTING MARRIED!

There are moments in our history that anybody can look to as inflection points leading to marriage: an engagement with our beloved family and friends, a very sneaky first kiss in the pouring rain years before we dated, a very timid ‘I love you’ whispered to a thankful resounding positive response. In retrospect, in our collective path towards forever, I daresay the opposite is true. The moments that go unseen and unnoticed have drawn us inseparable and closer together: famished and panting after I mistakenly got us lost running during marathon training, a long road trip with Katrina’s uncanny ability to keep us both entertained with her competitiveness and impulsive game creation, a simple joy in writing a Bible verse together to represent our goals and dreams for the month ahead. It may be too on-the-nose, but we love it. Boy met girl, boy waited too long to ask girl out, boy and girl fell in love at the perfect time despite the imperfect situations of geography and careers and no ‘great’ time on paper. In the imperfections, Katrina and I found each other. We found love. I found my best friend, she found a very rough version of who I was hoping to be and still loved me unabashedly. I love our story because of the old and new, from high school in the same town to exploring completely new cities and conquering new goals. But, even greater, I love our story because it is just beginning -- which is why we are both so thankful for this incredible day, knowing we are pieced together by so many people who loved us all the way to 12/31, and will love us from ‘I do’ until forever.