Orange County Wedding // Megan & Brian

March 20, 2014

From the Bride:

“Brian and I have a love story that only God could write. We think it’s better than any Hollywood movie or romance novel. It is a story about loss, sacrifice, searching, patience and redemption. Brian and I met on a blind date on September 16, 2012. It truly was love at first sight. Sitting across the dinner table from each other we knew almost immediately that this date was different. We knew what was happening was beyond our own scope of understanding. We were falling in love and it was only date one.

A little back story: I had been on so many first dates that I actually wrote a book about my experience. Brian had taken a year long dating hiatus after a difficult divorce and many bad dates. We had both reached a point in our lives where we had become very picky daters and were determined to wait for God’s best. Brian focused all his energy on raising his three boys, working full time for Caterpillar, and volunteering at his church. I was busy teaching history to high school students, spending time with friends and family and also volunteering at the very same church. And it was because of that church, we finally met.

We were set up by our pastor, a man that we both knew well and admired. He had known us separately for three years, but was waiting on the Lord to reveal the right time to introduce us. We had no idea how God was working behind the scenes. In the same fall that my dating book was published and Brian got divorced, God began to direct our steps towards each other and we did not even know it. Now we are living a love story that we can hardly believe is true. But it is. And it’s ours.”