Meet baby Ivan and baby Val, this was our first picture.

We met right before the COVID pandemic. It was sort of like a love at first sight, after one message of "Are you missing a sock?" (Ivan to Val because if you know the bride, she will be the one to leave stuff all around the place).

Everything changed on February 15th, 2020. Our lives would be completely different and God would have made everything work perfectly just like Him.

We had a very quick beginning where we ended up living together for almost 2 years from April 2021 until January 2023, and even tho we loved each other very much. Things came to an end (or what we thought was the end). We had almost six months apart in which we grew A LOT, we found Jesus again and we started a life we didn't know was soon to be reunited.

We got back together in May 2023 to our surprise we were able to find out that through God and our beloved pastor, we were walking again by the hand, this time, healed, forgiven, redeemed, and LOVED by Jesus. Our love story has many ups and many downs but we were able to pull it all together and create a beautiful family from it.

We have an amazing doggy, aka Cooper as everyone already knows, our families merged beautifully but most importantly, God was in the middle and nothing could separate us.

This brings us to this day, November 26th, 2023 when Ivan proposed. WHAT A DAY. (I kinda knew)

and now we get to celebrate this love that God has allowed us to live and we get to celebrate with YOU!

We love you, and thank you for wanting to learn more about us and for being able to love us through this beautiful story!

I can't wait to see you on NOVEMBER 16!!!