Grayson and I met our senior year of college - he was at the University of Arkansas and I was at the University of Texas, but we had several mutual friends at UT. He would come for weekends and I always knew him by name, but nothing else past that.

Fast forward two years later and I am in my last few months of PA school in Savannah, GA while Grayson is working in Dallas at KPMG. My best friends had moved from Austin to Dallas for work and were in the same friend group as Grayson. Everyone thought highly of him and he somehow always came up in conversation whether it was funny stories about him from their ski trip together or just memories from weeknight hang outs. One of my closest friends and bridesmaids, Lauren Cammack, who went to high school with Gray (shout out Allen Eagles), came to visit me in Savannah, name dropped Grayson, and told me he wanted to date me?! I was very confused but would be lying if I said I wasn’t intrigued. Shortly after when I visited Dallas on a fall break, several of my friends and I had a wine night that Gray attended. We both knew we wanted to go on a date at that point even though the only words exchanged were “Hi Grayson.”

I flew to Dallas for our first date - bold move, I know. But it was the best first date ever and I felt like I had known Gray all my life. We went on a date every day of that first weekend and didn’t want to stop hanging out. Date number 2, Gray flew to Savannah. (For those of you who know Grayson and his unique frugal yet boujee personality, he stayed at a La Quinta that weekend and will never let me forget how terrible it was.) About a month after that, we were “official” and he casually told me to move to Dallas after I graduated. It caught me off guard but I was pretty instantly sold on being with this guy for the long haul.

Grayson proposed to me on December 6, 2020. The whole day was a true gift and a light at the end of a tough year for us all. He picked me up in the morning, my favorite time of day, bought me breakfast tacos that neither of us could really taste (did I mention we were just getting over Covid?), and took me to Lake Grapevine where he had set up a beautiful round table he had been building for me and secretly finished without me knowing. I admired the table for way too long. He read me a letter from a journal we had passed back and forth during out time of long-distance dating, got down on one knee, and asked me to marry him. It all happened so fast and so perfectly.

We are so thankful for all of the memories we’ve built during a relationship across states, to finally getting to see each other more than once a month, to engagement. But we believe June 12, 2021 will be our favorite memory to date and we can’t wait for you all to be there to celebrate with us!