Relaxed Tennessee Winter Elopement
Carrie and Scott – December 4, 2024
From the Bride:
We met at a convenience store parking lot late summer of 2003. I was leaving the store with a friend and he was sitting in the parking lot with a friend of his on his motorcycle. Our friends knew each other and introduced us. Over the next few weeks we kept running in to each other or showing up at the same group events. We had the best time when hanging out together and the conversations just flowed. Around Halloween we all met up and went to a haunted hayride which is where I met his 2 adorable boys. Seeing him as a father and the relationship he had with his boys was amazing. We started officially dating December 2003 and the rest is history lol. I knew early on he’d be someone so special to me that he would impact my life in ways I could have never imagined at the age of 19. Here we are 21 years later with 2 sons, who have grown in to amazing husbands and fathers. They have blessed us with 2 wonderful daughter in laws and 5 beautiful grandchildren.
As you can tell from how we met, we have been together for 21 wonderful years. Being legally married has never been something he or I were interested in, honestly it’s just not what was important to us. Building our life together, raising 2 amazing men and loving each other everyday was all we needed. When our families asked; we always joked that we’d eventually get married we just didn’t want to rush it lol. December 2023 we decided it was finally time and we went together and picked out my ring. He proposed at home after we got home from a quick trip TN.
We fell in love with East Tennessee when first vacationed here over 15 years ago. We have been coming back at least 2-3 times a year ever since. We bought land in East TN about 3 years ago and plan to retire here. We always said when we got married we’d do it here because this area is so special to us.
For fun, we enjoy going to concerts, dirt track races, spending time with each other and our family.
