Since our ceremony is for our closest family & friends, you all already know the gist of our story! But in the off chance you want to hear it again, I’ll humor you….




It was the first day of class at Centre College, and I was running late to class and while I was still “early,” I wasn’t early enough to get a prime spot in the lecture. I plopped down the the last seat in the middle row frustrated with how far back I was sitting but decided it could’ve been worse. Out of nowhere, the person in front of me turns around, all excited and says “hi, I’m Alex!” And me, not excited to be in a hot, dark classroom for calculus says “…hi, I’m Hannah.” Not trying in the least to match enthusiasm. From there the semester starts and with that, my understanding of calculus dwindles each week. At some point, we started studying together, me always thinking I’m right, Alex thinking he was right… one of us was very much not right.


Fast forward to sophomore year where we had our first art class together, that was when our friendship started now that we had a mutual interest that we were both doing well with. From there our friendship grew with me borrowing the textbooks for the classes he took the semester before 'cause he wasn’t using them and I didn’t want to buy them.


Once we made it to our Junior year, we took Glass I together that spring. Me thinking it was awful because I was hot and I couldn’t get the hang of it, Alex falling in love with all these ideas of what he could do with the form.


Entering our our senior year at Centre, things just fell into place - for lack of a better explanation. We were spending more and more time together at JVAC (the art barn where our studios and classes were) and on the football field (where Alex had a lot of down time to goof around since he was a kicker and I was a student athletic trainer, or a glorified water girl). It was this time where we started spending more time together to see if this could actually turn into something. It did.


In our spring semester, I was getting ready to interview for this extremely competitive position at a hotel that would require me to move across the ocean to this remote town of Germany called Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Alex was also in the process of moving to a remote town of Alabama to work at a studio. Thankfully he had the interview with Edelweiss as a backup plan. Time moved too fast and next thing we knew, we were on a plane together moving to Germany. Alex lucked out with an incredible roommate and I got lucky with an awesome travel partner.


After two years of gallivanting around, we settled in Knoxville with a 3-5 year plan for Alex to work at Pretenious while we figured out what our future would look like. Now, we're about at the end of this leg of our journey and moving into the next adventure which is still rather undetermined, but this next step includes the one and only, Mr Judson Pupperbutt and a pretty nice ring on my finger.


Regardless of where we end up or however many steps it takes us to get there, we wouldn't want or be able to do any of it without you all. We've chosen you to be with us on this day (or days really) because we wouldn't want it any other way.