Love Is Timeless | Hallie & Joshua | Timeless Wedding Designs | Vero Beach Wedding Planner

"Josh and I have known each other since Middle School. He always liked me but I wasn't paying attention; I was too busy being a teenage girl, honestly. We weren't close in Middle School, but in High School we became good friends. He came into my life when I needed him most and he gave me great advice... about another boy and how I deserved better! Then one thing led to another and we were on our first date. I had just turned 16 and my mother wouldn't let me ride in a boy's car until I was 16, so I was very excited! Josh came and picked me up and we embarked on what was the start of the rest of our lives...
Fun fact: We still argue because I believe he ran a red light that day, and he claims he didn't! Haha!"

"I knew Hallie was the one when I saw how easy it was to talk and laugh with her; how she saw me for who I was and loved it. As for me, I do not have a specific time or date when I knew - it was more of how I saw over time that she did not change. It was still easy to talk and laugh with her as time went on; she didn't change from the first date and our first date was the first clue that this was something special. No other girl would have sat next to a lake and talked and laughed for as long and as much as we did that night. I always wanted to find someone who would love the simple things, because I am a simple man. I'm so happy I have found her."
- Joshua

"I knew Josh was the one, as cliché as it sounds, when he kissed me for the first time. We were on our first date together and we went to Tradition [in Port St. Lucie] to walk around and get ice cream. We ended up standing by the lake, him holding me, me never wanting him to let me go, just talking about our dreams and who we are and what we want to become. I had this feeling that he was the one, but as soon as he leaned in to kiss me, I knew. That confirmed it for me, the fireworks went off and the butterflies were flying around like crazy! My world was spinning and I knew from that moment on he was the man of my dreams, the one I had always imagined marrying. And now 6 ½ years later we are embarking on our happily ever after together!"
- Hallie

"Well, after waiting for 6 years, constantly dropping hints and being a little over dramatic and emotional over the idea of marrying the man of my dreams, I stopped dropping the hints and being emotional since my mother told me that I need to have patience and it would happen. On Christmas Day (my favorite holiday) we opened all of our gifts and shared laughs and made more amazing memories with his family. Josh got up and said, "Wait here, I have one more gift so close your eyes..." I didn't know what I needed to close my eyes for, and I was trying to remember what I asked for that was worth such the surprise! When I heard him say, "Okay, you can open your eyes now," there was the man of my dreams, down on one knee, asking me to marry him. I immediately started crying because I couldn't believe it was really happening, finally! We called my Mom, Step-Dad, best friends, Dad, Josh's cousins and aunt... I was shaking when we shared with them the big news! I was so excited I wanted to share it with the whole world. It was the best Christmas I've ever had!"  

Photo by Nassimbeni Photography.

If you would like to share your love story with us, please email me at Mandy@TimelessWeddingDesigns.com with the subject, "Love Is Timeless."

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Love Is Timeless | Ashley & Jimmy | Timeless Wedding Designs | Wilmington Wedding Planners

Love is timeless.

As a wedding planning and coordination company, we are talking about and thinking about weddings all day long. Everything we do revolves around having the perfect wedding day for every couple who hires us. I got to thinking recently, though, that weddings are about so much more than the flowers and the cake and the rings - they are a true celebration of love.

Our new segment, Love Is Timeless, is going to be about just that. When someone hires me, it's likely that I've already heard their love story and Facebook stalked them to the point of knowing things about them that they may not even know themselves; it's all good! But there's nothing like hearing the well-thought-out response that comes from a person when you ask them, "Why do you love your partner?"

Our first couple that we are featuring is from right here in Wilmington, North Carolina, and we have been planning with them for years now! Yes, years. Ashley and Jimmy will be married in April 2018, but for now, here is there love story.



"Jimmy and I met the summer of 2009, he had just graduated and I was going into 11th grade, but it was not love at first sight. Our younger sisters were the best of friends and I would hang out with them on some occasions; Jimmy and I began hanging out as well, which led to us becoming great friends who would just talk for hours on end while walking around the community we lived in. I went back to Florida but we still talked all the time and upon my return to North Carolina the next summer we began dating seriously.

Five and half years later on a cold rainy December 23rd, 2015 Jimmy asked me to go to The George while I was stuffing my face, watching TV, and eating Baba Ghannoj late that evening. I obliged although I thought it was strange! We arrive to The George but it was closed. So we went to Lula's Pub, which is an underground hole in the wall; we had a few drinks and left. I was cold, so I asked Jimmy for his jacket before we departed the bar and he told me no, which was weird but I thought nothing of it. As we went into the cold rain I mentioned how much water was running down the sidewalk and began walking to the truck. As I grabbed the handle to the passenger door I heard Jimmy say, "Honey, will you..." As I turned around I thought, "I know he is not asking me to marry him!" There Jimmy was: knee on the sidewalk with rain pouring down asking me to marry him! I was so speechless it took me a moment and then some to answer, "OF COURSE!!!"

I know Jimmy is the one because I am happier than I ever even dreamed of being, in my wildest dreams never imagined someone as great as him. I never smiled and laughed as big as I do now before I met Jimmy. He is my best friend and he loves me so whole-heartedly. I thank God everyday that someone so beautiful was brought into my life and now I get to marry him."

If you would like to share your love story with us, please feel free to email me at Mandy@TimelessWeddingDesigns.com with the subject, "Love Is Timeless."

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