We are so excited to celebrate our wedding with you! In this post, there are a few details about Bethany and Justin and our relationship.
Bethany is a graduate student in Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. She is planning to finish her PhD in May 2011. Bethany likes living in Athens, GA except for the unbearably hot summers. She lives there now with her roommate Jamie and their two cats. When not working on school, Bethany blogs about unnecessary quotation marks, does other writing, and participates in music at church. A book based on the quotation marks blog will be available from Chronicle Books in Fall 2010.
Justin is a GIS Cartographer from Grand Rapids, MI. He works for an independent oil & gas exploration geologist. Most days he looks at maps and puts them with other maps. When he isn't working in the garoffice (garage-office), he hangs out with Scott and Christy Admiraal and watches TV shows and movies. Other times (and sometimes at the same times as these other things) he plays flash games that are fun. He enjoys visiting Athens and can't wait to move there.
They met in the spring of 2008 via mutual friends and the internet. They have mutual interests in awesome things on the internet and long distance relationships. When they met for the first time in Holland, MI, sparks flew and Bethany wouldn't eat anything. Two months later, for Labor Day weekend, Justin made the first of many journeys to Athens, GA. The two of them have seen each other about every month since then. In July 2009 Justin proposed at Laketown Beach, Bethany's favorite Lake MI beach which they visited on their first date.
(photo by Melissa Keeley)
