The story of Tim and I begins like many millennial love stories: with a dating app. This time however, girl saw boy's profile, girl said something lame, and boy never replied. Fast forward 6 months and boy and girl meet at a Fourth of July party. Of course, it took me a few hours but I eventually realized why Tim looked so familiar. I was horrified he'd remember me and spent the rest of the weekend shamefully avoiding him, hoping he wouldn’t catch on I was someone he had snubbed on a dating app. He never did notice (I had to tell him 3 months in to dating) and our friendship grew throughout that summer. Tim asked me out, and I went on the best first date of my life September 12th 2017.

I fell for Tim on our first date and am so happy to share our love with family and friends that same day 3 years later.

Well, after a rough start with the dating app debacle, I got it together and started taking Steph out. We were having the time of our lives together and decided to take a road trip through Nashville. On one special evening, I took her out to a very romantic dinner consisting of barbecue sauce slathered over a rack of ribs, and steak fries. She was very impressed to say the least. After that I told her I had a surprise planned and told her that she would like it. She was under the impression that we were going to have guitar lessons

We went to a more secluded part of town to a private studio space. A greeter met us at the door and welcomed us in. Inside we could hear light guitar strumming, and there was a large wooden door on wheels to the right. I took hold of the door and slid it back along the wall. Behind it was a row of candles leading up to a stage, and a live performer singing “At last”. Stephanie was confused, then it all came together for her and she had so much emotion running through her that she could barely speak. We walked down the aisle slowly hand in hand. I told her how I felt about her, bent my knee and asked her to be my wife. Tears of joy streamed down her face. She brought herself able to speak again and said, “yes, of course!”. We celebrated overlooking the Nashville skyline, just the two of us, thinking of our lives to come.