Independent Presbyterian Church

Wedding Day

Wedding

Savannah Yacht Club

Reception

Our Wedding

Our story started in January of 2013. Scotty was 16 years old and I was 18. I had one short semester standing between me and the beginning of the&nbsp;next chapter of my life in Athens. Scotty and I had known each other for years because we went to the same church and middle/high school, but there was never anything more than a friendship between us. One Sunday night in January, we both decided to play hooky from night church. I had been texting Scotty and told him that my plans were to play Just Dance with my family on the Wii and that he was more than welcome to join if he thought he could keep up. To my surprise, he took me up on my offer, even though we weren’t that good of friends, and he brought his dancing “A game.”



Our friendship definitely grew stronger after that night. Scotty went from “someone that I knew from school and church” to someone that I intentionally made plans to hang out with. At this point, I saw Scotty as a good friend. About one month later, Scotty asked me on our first date. I knew that I was going to be graduating and moving away from Savannah very soon, but I went anyway. I can’t tell you what Scotty’s intentions were with this date because it was supposed to be low key (he even decided it would be best to meet at the movies instead of him picking me up), but Scotty had bought tickets for the newest Nicholas Sparks movie, Safe Haven (haha). After this date, I realized that I really enjoyed Scotty’s company. He was so easy-going and made me laugh, but I still knew in the back of my mind that I wasn’t going to be in Savannah much longer. 

 









A few weeks later, Scotty asked me to Prom, which I promptly declined because I didn’t think that our little relationship (if you could even call it that) was going to last all the way until the end of March. Little did I know what was in store for us.

 









Over the next year (my freshman year at UGA and Scotty’s senior year of high school), we continued to go on casual dates whenever we could get in the same town; however, these dates were few and far between because of the distance. It had been about a year since we first started going on dates, but we still weren’t serious. This, however, was&nbsp;not from Scotty’s lack of trying. I tried to tell him several times that I didn’t think it was going to work out between us because of the distance. But man was he persistent!! 

 









As soon as I came home for the summer, Scotty told me that he didn’t want to date anyone else and he wanted me to be his girlfriend. That fall we both went back to&nbsp;UGA and the rest, as they say, is history! Five years later and we are so excited to be getting married!!

Caroline & Scotty

Caroline & Scotty

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