Author: Homewood Life

For the ceremony it was just the two of us, and the intimacy of that time together was surreal.

The blessing of seeing all our closest family and friends witness our promise before God to love and serve each other for the rest of our lives was so special.

Melissa and Conner met while interning up in East Tennessee. They’ve always laughed about how they had to travel over 350 miles to meet their eventual spouse after growing up just 10 miles apart.

A dear friend of mine, Enoch, who I met in 2009 in Ghana when I travelled with Semester at Sea, “co-officiated” our wedding with our pastor here in Birmingham.

During the end of the congregation taking communion, we had the opportunity to look out and observe all our friends and family there.