Wedding Date on May 13, 2017

From The Bride: Patrick and I met on Spring Break 2010 in Panama City Beach. We were both Juniors in college at the time, but our Universities were in opposite parts of the country-his in New York and mine in Tennessee-so we had no plan of ever seeing each other after this one trip to the beach. Our groups of friends would hang out each day on the beach, and my group of girls was constantly entertained by his group of guys and their antics on the beach. In all honesty, I was a little skeptical of him at first. One of his first “moves” was to say that he was going to get the best looking girl on the beach and dance with her in a small square “dance floor” that he had drawn in the sand with his foot. I,of course, was thinking “Oh brother, this guy has to be kidding.”To my surprise, he came back and danced with an approximately 70 year old woman on his little man-made sand dance floor. Needless to say it was super cute. He had won me over. I wish I could say that the rest is history from this point on, but we actually didn’t have any contact to speak of for about two years. We re-connected via social media, and planned to meet up for Spring Break 2012, but our Spring Break schedules were off by just one week! We sparked up a friendship via daily phone-calls and constant texts. This friendship turned into a long-distance relationship and we fell in love from afar with monthly meet-ups of course. After one-year of long-distance, Patrick moved from Washington D.C. to Memphis, Tennessee. That move was the beginning of the best adventure of our lives. After four years of dating, Patrick proposed and the planning began! For our wedding, we took it back to where it all began and where we first met-the BEACH! We got married on the beach in Grayton Beach, Florida on May 13, 2017. My best friend owns an event planning company in Memphis, TN (BettsMade). Together, we planned the wedding of my dreams from afar, and I could not have asked for a more perfect celebration with family and friends!