We met in the summer of 2022 while working at The Anchorage Christian Camp in North Carolina. Throughout that summer, we began to grow closer as friends who didn't have intentions of getting into relationships. By the end of the summer, we knew we wanted to get to know each other more.

In August of 2022, we started dating long-distance while we were both in college about 4 hours from each other. Elizabeth was playing soccer for the women's soccer team at Bob Jones University. On one of her away games in North Carolina, Caleb was able to come to watch the game and meet Elizabeth's family.

The relationship began to grow from there with Caleb driving down often to visit, FaceTime calls, texts, and planning for future visits.

Caleb came to South Carolina after Christmas. A few days later, Caleb and Elizabeth were off to go skiing with Caleb's family. (This was also the trip where Elizabeth officially met Caleb's family).

The relationship continued to be a great time of love, happiness, learning, and sacrifice.

In April of 2023, Caleb and Elizabeth went through a bit of a rough patch and ended up splitting separate ways...

During this breakup, both Caleb and Elizabeth were able to learn a lot about their relationship with God, life, what they wanted in a relationship, and how to navigate difficult situations without their significant other.

In the months following, there was some communication between the two of them but nothing stuck until Elizabeth ended up back at camp in the Summer of 2023.

Caleb came to camp in July of that year with his church group and ended up being a counselor due to his previous training and a last-minute situation where the camp needed another male counselor.

Throughout this week, Elizabeth and Caleb tried to avoid each other to stay focused on camp and not experience the negative pent-up emotions that they had toward each other. But, this was to no avail. Halfway through the week, Caleb and Elizabeth caved and gave each other a conversation.

Contact with each other began to get more steady between the two of them. When camp came to a close for the summer of 2023, Elizabeth ended up going to stay with Caleb's family for about a week.

On August 10th, 2023, Caleb and Elizabeth went back into the stage of dating. After this trip, there was more and more talk of a future.

In January of 2024, Caleb received a wedding ring set from his grandmother, Patricia Johnson. After some resizing for the ring, Caleb requested to talk to Elizabeth's dad to get permission to ask Elizabeth to marry him.

On February 10th, 2024, Caleb popped the question asking Elizabeth to marry him. She excitedly said "Yes!"

So this brings us to the here and now! We are so excited for this next chapter in our story. We are thankful for the parts you have played in our lives and the chapters leading up to our wedding in August of 2024!