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Our Story

Our story began in the early months of the year 2018 (kind of). The Schomaker family decided to come to West Chester Nazarene Church, where Nina had already been attending her entire life.

A year went by where the two never interacted with each other. That was all until they both went to Nazarene Youth Conference in 2019 and Austin happened to sit two rows behind Nina. Somewhere during this trip Nina happened to catch Austin's eye and the rest was history... Just kidding, it took him a while to get the courage to ask her out.

Flash forward to January 24th, 2020 when Austin jokingly decided to test the waters and snapchatted Nina asking if she would like to go to winter formal with him (spoiler alert: there was no winter formal). To which Nina responded "I'm guessing you accidentally sent this to me" and Austin laughed it off telling her it was for a TikTok (there was no TikTok). But, this is how they semi began interacting with one another.

Skip to August of that same year, Austin went with his friend Dean (the best man), who was also Nina's friend, to Florida. While they were driving they were both snapping Nina and this is how Austin and Nina began consistently talking to each other. When they got back Dean asked Nina if she would be interested in Austin and her response was something along the lines of "I don't know, I don't know much about him. You should start bringing him around more and we shall see." But alas, it took a while for that to happen.

Months went by, other relationships went by, until the two began interacting in person when Nina gave Austin a silly band because she was obsessed with silly bands and he wanted one. Then the two went to Winter Retreat in February of 2021 with the youth group and they began talking more, sharing memories from past youth events, and making new ones as Nina tried teaching him how to do a flip at the trampoline park (she was not successful). At this same retreat, Austin's sister, Paige (bridesmaid), started putting the idea in Nina's head as well. Side note, Paige and Nina had already been calling each other sister for a little while, this had nothing to do with Austin. Little did they know it would eventually be coming true.

After this retreat, Austin finally began hanging out with the friend group and Austin and Nina's friendship grew stronger. With the help of Paige and Sarah (the maid of honor), and some other family and friends, Austin finally got up the courage to ask Nina out. In the mean time, Nina was in a car accident and received a concussion, but that didn't stop them from having their first date on May 9th, where the two went to Topgolf and were too nervous to eat their food. They then drove around and talked for hours getting to know each other more. A few dates later, Austin officially asked Nina to be his girlfriend on May 23rd, 2021. Now the rest is history:)

Nina & Austin

Nina & Austin

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