Two summers ago neither of us would have guessed the wild ride we would take, getting to know one another and falling in Love. We both grew up in western New York and experienced many similar growing up experiences including strong Christian families, a shared faith in Christ, and a love for Christian radio which we found out connected us in deeper levels than we thought possible.

In July of 2023 on a Sunday afternoon, in the process of dropping off one of her kids at a summer music camp at Cairn University, David's aunt, who knew and had taught me (Andrea) flute in college, and I sat down to have coffee and catch up on life. During the course of the conversation, I told her that I was done with online dating and open to recommendations from people I trusted. Fast forward a couple of weeks while I was on vacation with my family and I receive a text from her with David's number and the instructions to reach out to him first.

Needless to say we hit it off fairly quickly, finding lots of common ground in literature, faith and family traditions. But it wasn't until November of 2023 that we had our first date. After that we continued talking for hours on the phone and getting to know each other on a deeper level. (Oh, and we were on opposite sides of Pennsylvania at this time!) But depsite that, after two dates where David drove from Erie to Philadelphia and back, we decided that we wanted to officially start dating in April of 2024.

By summer of 2024, we both knew that we wanted to have a life together. In November David finally made the move to eastern PA and he proposed right after Thanksgiving.

That's an overview of our story. For more details, I guess you'll just have to come to the wedding!

A&D