Jarred and I first started talking to each other in December 2020 around Christmas/New Years through an online dating app (hehehe Tinder). When I was in college, I had used some of these apps before just for fun when I was bored, sitting in my living room with my roommates at the time. Isn’t that what a lot of people ended up doing?

After I left Brookings during the pandemic, I started using dating apps again back home and wasn’t really expecting much to come out of it because…(let’s be honest it was Southwest Minnesota) Then, in came Jarred. Erin made the first move and the conversations started flowing. We were talking for a few weeks before we decided to go on a first date. When Jarred told his friends about me, they were shocked that he was even going on a date. One date led to two and after the second date Jarred asked if I wanted this to become “something more”. My response was, “I don’t know, maybe?” and I thought I messed everything up. I then called one of my friends asking what he meant by that and then realized he wanted to make things official. I then frantically texted him back saying YES and that’s where our story really took off. We started dating in January 2021 and enjoy spending time together and making lots of memories.

E&J

Ceremony

Reception