“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

- Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

Drew and Cassidy met the summer of 2014, just a few months before her freshman and his senior year at Georgia Southern. After talking the other person up for months, their pastor cornered them in the hallway after church and introduced them with the hopes of creating a perfect match. The introduction was awkward at best (mostly because Cassidy’s sister, Allison, was standing behind her chuckling and snap chatting the whole thing) and they walked away not really thinking much of it.

The next time they met was a few weeks later after church, this time in their college town, the day before classes started. Drew walked up to Cass and her roommate, Alaina, after the service and invited them over to his aunt’s house for lunch. They didn’t hang out at all that first year except for those weekly Sunday lunches.

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Fast forward 9 years and we’re planning our wedding. I guess Pastor Boyd did see something we didn’t. All of those phone calls asking us about the other person really paid off.

We became close friends well before we actually considered dating, and there were many points throughout those years of friendship when the idea of being engaged or married was laughable to us.

I love the Pride and Prejudice quote from Mr. Darcy at the top of the page, because as he’s professing his love for Lizzie and trying to describe how long he’s been in love with her, he realizes he can’t, because it didn’t happen in a truly definable way.

Nothing about our story is traditional or linear. It would take pages and pages to cover all those years and try to describe how we got to where we are now. But one thing we knew shortly after meeting, was that this was a person we did not want to let go of.

We are so thankful for God’s grace and blessings in our lives, and our hearts are full as we look forward to saying “I do” with so many of the people we love.

It's been a long time coming.

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