September 15, 2015, was the best day of my life. It was the day my best friend chose to love me for the rest of our lives. That was the day I went from being Tyler's girlfriend, to his fiancée.
Here I am at 21 years old, getting married in nine months and graduating in six.
While it's overwhelming, I remind myself I'm not the first one to do this. Any woman engaged before graduating college, is caught having to prepare for endless questions about post college life, AND about marriage.
Here's some of the common questions any engaged college student is bound to hear:
"What is the rush?"
We know you all are dying to ask, but please don't ask because our response will be "Why would we wait?"
We found the person we want to spend the rest of our life with, so why does it matter if we haven’t graduated college? Yes, we still have a lot of life to live. So why wouldn't we want to spend it with the person we love the most?
“Isn’t there more you want to do before settling down?”
Just because we are getting married doesn’t mean we can’t live an exciting life.
People ask this question like our lives are ending as soon as we're married. Instead, we see it as the start of our next life adventure, with our best friend.
For us, nothing sounds better. We get to go on adventures and see the world with the person we love the most. I mean really, how does it get much better than that?
“Are you ready to be a wife?”
Excited? Yes. Ready? No.
But that’s okay. We don’t know how to be a wife since we've never been one before, but we will eventually figure it out. We have prayed ceaselessly about what we want from our marriage, and we know that it's in God’s hand.
“Are you sure he is the one?”
There is no such thing as the one. If there was only one person for everyone, the first person to marry the wrong person, would screw it up for the rest. Love is so much more than a feeling or emotion. Love is a choice. We are choosing to love and spend the rest of our lives with our future husband. Choosing him is what makes him the one.
There are a lot of questions we don’t know the answers to, but we're not afraid of what's to come. While we're not positive on what jobs we will have, or how much money we will make, we know what's more important. And that's that we are 100% sure we serve a God who is bigger than all inadequacies and future failures.
We know our marriage will not be perfect. But what we do know, is it will be rich with grace, joy, and Jesus, and that is more than enough for us.





















