Our Story

Chapter 1: High School

It all started one afternoon in Latin Class at Reynolds High School in August of 2003. Andrew sat diagonally from Meredith, and the first day of school Meredith asked Andrew, at that time a total stranger, for a pen. Flirting ensued. A lot of flirting. By the end of that week, the two had gone on their first date. They quickly developed a strong love and close friendship.

Chapter 2: Long-Distance-ing It in College

Meredith went to the University of Florida in Gainesville and Andrew went to Wake Forest in Winston-Salem. The two spent four years and more than five hundred miles apart, which both crossed untold times, sustained along I-95 by Chick-fil-A and Diet Cokes.

Chapter 3: The "Real World"

After four years long-distance and five years together, Meredith moved back to Winston-Salem. She got a job working for the City of Winston-Salem while Andrew finished up at Wake Forest. Now he's working for the Admissions Department at Wake (woot!). They'll live in the cutest little apartment you ever did see in Downtown Winston-Salem, accompanied by Opie "Big Cat" Frazier, the cat.

Proposal: November 16th, 2008

McClellanville, South Carolina, is a small fishing village about 90 miles north of Charleston. Andrew's relatives have lived there for several generations. Meredith and Andrew were visiting Andrew's grandmother, who lives across from Jeremy Creek, which is part of the intracoastal waterway. Her house overlooks an amazing series of channels filled with seagrass and slow-moving shrimp boats. Five years ago, shortly after Andrew and Meredith started dating, they traveled to McClellanville and went out onto his family's dock one evening. They watched the sunset fade and a sky full of stars come up. That special night and spot were etched into their memories. Five years later, Andrew and Meredith were sitting on that same dock, when it came to him that the perfect moment to propose had arisen. Luckily he had already bought the engagement ring, though it was about 200 yards away in the car. He made a not-so-smooth suggestion that he absolutely needed to get the camera out of the car and booked it up and back in record time. They spent the next half hour or so telling each other what they meant to each other over the last five years, and then Andrew took Meredith to the middle of the dock, got down on one knee, and asked her to marry him.