Wedding Day

Ceremony

Reception

Our Wedding

Cole and I have known of each other since middle school but never truly met until our junior year of high school. Thankfully, we were both late on the first day of second semester for our econ class. The only two seats left were at the very front row so we were forced to sit next to each other. We both had friends we much rather would have sat with in the back of the classroom but we made the most of it and started to become good friends. Cole became one of my closest friends during the school year. Summer was approaching and I needed a job. He suggested that I come work with him at Callaway Gardens as a lifeguard and that he would facetime me later that night to help me apply because the application was "really hard to figure out" (it was very simple). We have facetimed every night since then pretty much! We spent almost all our time together whether we were at work, the lake, or getting chick-taters at Whistling Pig. My friends started to catch on that we made a great match and were always asking me if we liked each other or when we were going to date. I would just deny that he liked me and that we were just good friends! We finally got past that stage of acting like we were just friends and Cole asked me to be his girlfriend on June 27th, 2019. Dating in high school was so much fun and I am so thankful we have known each other that long. We ended up going to the same college and lived in the same dorm building! Our 4 years at Georgia Southern are some of my favorite memories with Cole -- including many Lakeside lunches, Phi Mu/Sigma Chi date nights, and Burkhalter bonfires. We met some our closest friends in Statesboro and will forever be grateful for being able to grow up there together. Flash forward to now, a year after graduation and freshly engaged we are SOOO happy and excited for this season of life. God knew what he was doing when He made us both late that first day of school!

Emma's Version

Cole's Version

Emma claims she does not remember this but the first time I met her, we were in 8th grade and I was going to math tutoring after school. I was walking back from the vending machine with a bag of chips and Emma was the class president so she was after school doing her president stuff. When I walked by her she said hello, grabbed my bag of chips, and kept walking. I didn’t even know how to react so I just watch her turn the corner and keep going.&nbsp; Fast forward to high school, me and Emma were both late to our first class of the year and got stuck with sitting beside each other. We slowly started actually getting to know each other and we became really good friends and would hangout outside of school a good bit in group settings. After a while I started falling for her but I didn’t know how to communicate that to her or if she even liked me back. Finally, after we had been spending time together with just each other, I mustered up the courage to tell her how I really felt and asked her to be my girlfriend. Thankfully she said yes. We both ended up going to Georgia Southern and our first year we lived less than 100 yards from each other so we could walk over and see each other whenever we wanted. Emma and I had the best time ever at Georgia Southern and made great friends while we were down there. We were always going to events and hanging out with people while we are down there and I’m so thankful that we both went to Georgia Southern because it made our relationship so much stronger with us being in the same place during our time in college. Emma graduated before me and we have been doing long distance for the past year. Now that we both graduated I knew it was time for no more long distance and for us to live happily ever after. Emma is a wedding planner so I knew it was going to be difficult to make plans with her on a Saturday to surprise her with the proposal. I got in contact with her coworkers at Sea Island and asked them to give her a Saturday off without making it suspicious. With the help of her amazing friends we successfully surprised her and are so excited for what is to come. We can't wait to have all of our friends and family in one place to celebrate!

Our Story

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Anna Claire Goudie

Drink of Choice: Dunkin Iced Coffee
Favorite Memory: Signing Emma up for recruitment (without her knowing) so we could be Phi Mu's together! And being roommates in college :)

Olivia Lea

Maddie Propst

Drink of Choice: Rum Sunrise
Favorite Memory: Emma and I had a relaxing weekend on the water in Savannah full of catching up, cooking, and gardening :)

Emmi Propst

Olive Propst

Drink of Choice: Chocolate Milk

     Favorite Memory: Giving Emma the nickname "Queen Girl" and when she started crying when we were squirrel hunting

Jane Riley

Drink of Choice: Lemonade
Favorite Memory: Hiding Queen's keys and sitting on her feet to hold her hostage so she couldn't leave our house

Katelyn Riley

Drink of Choice: Latte 
Favorite Memory: Any and every sleepover we have had. Emma makes me laugh harder than most anyone else, and every chance I get to spend with her fills my heart :)

Isabella Woodford

Seth Riley

Drink of Choice: Coors Light
Favorite Memory: Cole, Lewis and I went to Lake Seminole once for a duck hunting trip. Cole missed the only duck we had shot on the last day of our trip. He was pretty mad but we couldn't stop laughing

Ty Chapman

Drink of Choice: Coors Light
Favorite Memory: Roughing it and chasing trout on the annual North Georgia camping/fishing trips

Andrew Rexrode

Drink of Choice: Smoked Old Fashion
Favorite Memory: Cole and I made a secret pact when we were 10 that we could cuss as much as we wanted if we walked past a certain tree

Tucker Carlisle

Drink of Choice: Rum & Coke
Favorite Memory: Camping with Cole and the Shiloh boys and naming him "Fire God Cole" after building fires and throwing hairspray cans in it until it exploded

Matthew Chapman

Drink of Choice: White Claw
Favorite Memory: When Cole helped me call my first turkey

Ethan Ellerbee

Drink of Choice: Coke
Favorite Memory: Christmas morning with Sissy

Wesley Davis

Favorite Memory: Cuddling and eating candy with Sissy 

Wade Davis

Carter Swann

Drink of Choice: Iced Matcha
Favorite Memory: In college Emma and I got a job teaching Sunday School at the First Baptist Church in Statesboro. It was so much fun and we have so many silly stories!

Luiza Atty

Drink of Choice: Sauvignon Blanc
Favorite Memory: 

Kaley Dowdy

Lila Lanier

Drink of Choice: Diet Coke
Favorite Memory: When Emma and I went to an Auburn gameday our sophomore year of college -- we had the best time and were best friends by the end of the trip!

Emma & Cole

Emma & Cole

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