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Rehearsal Dinner

Rehearsal

The Grand Ivory

Wedding Day

Ceremony

Reception

We love because He first loved us - 1 John 4:19

Our Wedding

Charlie and I met in April of 2021 at Watermark Community Church. Charlie had just moved to Dallas proper and I was starting to wrap up my second semester of vet school. It was a Tuesday night at their young adult ministry called The Porch. We were both in a period of change in our individual lives and were only looking for friends. We found friends in each other and our group started to grow quickly. Through the spring and summer after spending time together I asked her on a date! She said yes and we were off! I asked her to be my girlfriend on July 1st, 2021 and she said yes again! A couple months later in September I left to travel back to Dublin to start up school for my third semester. This was the start of our long distance relationship. A relationship with 5000 miles between is not easy but we committed to communicating through facetime with each other nearly every day. We built our relationship at first through relationship question cards which lead us to talk about things that helped us to discuss deeper topics and grow closer to each other. All together we have done over 1500 questions all pre-written with the design of digging deeper in a relationship. After almost a year and a half of dating I asked Charlie to marry me on January 1st, 2023. Thankfully she said yes! Today we are still doing long distance and are looking forward to the time when we don’t ever have to again.&nbsp; Our relationship has definitely been non-traditional. Most will say that distance is hard and we are no exception to that. BUT. We have also benefited from it in ways we could not have imagined. With dedicating time each day to sit down and intentionally communicate with each other we have been able to dive into a relationship filled with love and respect for one another. We have both learned that keeping Jesus Christ at the center of our lives and the center of our relationship is the only true and perfect way to a joyful life. We know we could not experience the peace and prosperity that we have without the blessings God has given to us. God has allowed our relationship to be built on the foundation of Christ who is all loving, all powerful, and unchanging, which allows us to love and serve each other and those around us with true meaning and purpose. We are excited for marriage because we believe it is the perfect earthly picture of Christ’s love for the church, his people on earth. We look forward to advancing God’s kingdom together through our marriage. We cannot wait to continue our story and are ready for the next chapter of marriage on June 1st, 2024!

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. - 1 Peter 4:8

Our Story

Photos

Wedding Party

Q + A

We have a room block at Hampton Inn &amp; Suites McKinney. The link will take you directly to the webpage connected to our room block. You can also book online with the code TFW or call and let them know you are with the Tapken Finch Wedding

Hampton Inn & Suites McKinney

The link takes you to our room block! If there are no available rooms in the room block the link below will take you to a page with discounted rooms! https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?

Sheraton McKinney Hotel

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. - Romans 12:10

Travel

Historic Downtown McKinney

TUPPS Brewery

BarnHill Vineyard

Things to Do

Registry

Scripture we are meditating on leading up to the wedding! We would love for you to join us in praying for our wedding and marriage and that above all it would glorify God.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8&nbsp;Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.&nbsp;It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.&nbsp;Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

Romans 8:28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Psalm 36:5-6Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep.

Psalm 52:8But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.

John 15:12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

Romans 12:10Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

Song of Solomon 8:3I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.

Colossians 3:14And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.&nbsp;

1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

Ephesians 5:22-33Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church for we are members of his body. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.This is a profound mystery but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Ephesians 4:2-3Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

1 Peter 4:8Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Mark 10:9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.

Romans 5:8God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 6:23The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Charlie & Reid

Charlie & Reid

C&R

We love because He first loved us - 1 John 4:19