John Forrest & Reagan

July 27, 2024 • Georgetown, TN

John Forrest & Reagan

July 27, 2024 • Georgetown, TN

Our Story

Beginning of the Love Story: Reagan's Version

Knowing him through mutual friends in college, my sights had been set on John Forrest for a while. I told my best friend, Brit, that although I had never talked to him, I knew that John Forrest checked all my boxes because his Instagram and bumper stickers on his blue FJ told me he loved Jesus, Tennessee football, and America. What more do you need?! Oh yeah, he was also cute! For a while, John Forrest was just a topic of "what if" conversations between Brit and me, but then FINALLY the anticipation was over. During my junior year of college, on one lovely night downtown out with our friends, John Forrest decided to spark up a conversation with me about Tennessee football (shocker). We went our separate ways and continued with casual conversations until Halloween of 2018, when we finally had our first date! He apparently wasn't convinced enough to make our relationship official until the following March, but I was smitten from even before day one. As you can tell the rest is history and I am so blessed to be where we are today!

Beginning of the Love Story: John Forrest's Version

Going to UAH, you learn to befriend all sorts of people. There are some people you hang out with on the weekends and there are some friends that carry you to an A on that lab or group project. However, there is one specific group of friends that I was able to find that was essential, my Tennessee Volunteer fans. This group was essential to surviving during the dark times on Saturday afternoons in the fall while I was at school. Thankfully, I was blessed to be hanging out with my lacrosse teammates one weekend, and I see a cute girl wearing that beautiful orange color. So naturally, I had to go talk some Big Orange Football with her. That then lead to hanging out a couple of times, and then it turned into hanging out a lot of the time. Next thing I knew, she was huddled under a tent with sideways rain in 35 degree temperature at my lacrosse game cheering me on. That is when I knew that Reagan was someone who I wanted to be with for a very long time.

Our First Date

Our first date is one of our favorite traditions that we recreate every year! Halloween of 2018, we went on our first date to Sonic for 50 cent corndogs and then to Krispy Kreme for free donuts with John Forrest dressed up as Three Hole Punch Jim from The Office. Every year since, we still dress up and go get free food, but now we get to bring our sweet pup, Lincoln, along for the fun!!

Proposal

It was supposed to be a beautiful, yet casual, “family picture” day when all of a sudden John Forrest was down on a knee! Reagan was completely distracted by Lincoln barking like crazy while being tied to a tree. She was also confused as to why John Forrest thought this was the best time to be fixing his sock when he was supposed to be trying to figure out the best lighting for family pictures. Needless to say, it was such a surprise and the sweetest day surrounded by all of Reagan and John Forrest’s most loved people!

Favorite Things to Do Together:

Travel - We have BIG fun traveling together. Many of our sweetest memories have been made exploring the many wonders of our world. We wish we could always be traveling and exploring the world together.


Play with Lincoln - He is the best goldendoodle and we love spoiling him rotten! Going on family walks, taking him out to shop and eat, and wrapping him in a big hug aka a Lincoln Sandwich is our favorite. <3


Watch movies - Whether at home or in the theater, we always have a new movie to watch, but butter injected popcorn and M&Ms are required!!