Jackie + Daniel | Engagement
Introducing my best friend, Jackie and her sweet fiancé, Daniel!
Jackie and I are the original J + A!* We met freshman year at Texas A&M and turned into roommates the next year. When you’re an 18 year old, you have no idea what five, ten, fifteen years later will look like and I could not have imagined what God would do through our friendship over these precious eight years. We have road tripped through six different states, sung Ben Rector until we lost our voices, read Nobody’s Cuter Than You** too many times, grown as women of God, cried together, laughed together, and enjoyed a popsicle or ice cream cone a time or two. We have lived a lot of life together since our college days and I wouldn’t have it any other way. They say to know someone is to know their best friend, so I’m so excited for you to meet Jackie below!
Now Daniel! I met Daniel when I joined Jacob’s home group before we got married. Our home group traveled to Peru together to hike the Inca Trail in October of 2016 and I really got to know Daniel’s character during that trip. I have memories of being hailed on, rained on and miserable on the second day of our hike. All the while, Daniel was just as constant as ever - never complaining, always encouraging and continuing to put one step in front of the other. I’m excited to watch as Daniel and Jackie become man and wife. Mostly because I’m encouraged to see what the Lord will do in both their lives. And I can have such certainty that as hail and rain come, Daniel will be a strong, consistent, trustworthy husband that Jackie can lean on.
And now for Jackie and Daniel! It has been such a sweet season of watching as Jackie trusts the Lord with their relationship. I am beyond thrilled that they are engaged and going to be married. I count it all joy that I get to walk alongside Jackie as she becomes a wife to Daniel!
Now for the real reason why I’m writing you! While the main goal of traveling to Dallas was to wedding dress shop (or in my case, dress shop and cry) with J, we snuck away for a bit to celebrate their season of engagement. I hope as you scroll down you will be absolutely filled with the same joy I felt as I scrolled through each and every frame.
Jackie and Daniel, you are both so full of joy! I love you both and am so thrilled to celebrate you as you become man and wife and encourage y’all in marriage after that!
*Jackie sweetly relinquished our title when I married my husband, Jacob and made it official by hand stitching us a “J + A” canvas that hangs in our house. To this day, it’s one of the kindness gifts I’ve received.
**Nobody’s Cuter Than You happens to be one of my favorite books! It’s Melanie Shankle memoir about friendship - the kind that our souls long for.
