Kristen & Joe met at Calvary Baptist Church in late 2021. Friends on both sides were working behind the scenes to get them to meet and officially succeeded at Calvary's Thanksgiving Dinner on Sunday November 21, 2021. Not long after that, Joe and Kristen went on their first date in January 2022. Fast forward almost 2 years later and Joe proposed on December 15, 2023 in downtown Graham at the Christmas tree on the corner of Main and Pine!