We grew up at our local church, Valley Baptist, together in Bakersfield. We always knew of each other, but because of the small month age gap we were always promoted to different classes at church-- seemingly always barely missing each other. There were small moments of time of connection, like working summer VBS's together and seeing each other at various events. It wasn't until Carissa moved home from college for her year off and got plugged back into the college group at church that we truly met and started hanging out together. Our group hangouts slowly became one on one time and eventually led to Corey asking to go out to coffee. Since then, there have been few and far between days that were not spent together.. and we quickly fell in love. It has been the greatest gift to us apart from amazing grace and we cannot wait to celebrate with our loved ones surrounding us on our day!