Victoria and JT are engaged!

 

Victoria and JT went to the Outer Banks with the Sheridan family for the first weekend in April. While there, JT proposed to Victoria bright and early on a walk on the beach!

So romantic!

V obviously said, "Yes!"

JT's sister, Danielle, is a wonderful photographer and sneakily followed them to take pictures from afar! Thanks, Danielle! Good plan, JT!

And...how cool to have a future brother-in-law, Tevita, who captured Proposal drone footage!

V sent a happy picture of herself wearing her beautiful ring and alongside her new fiancé!

Sod fam took screenshots when they Facetimed! We were so excited for them! JT had talked to Danny and I about it on Easter, so we knew that it was coming, but didn't know all of the details. He did a great job planning! Documenting the memory was important to V and he totally nailed that!

Danielle took some beautiful pictures of the newly engaged couple at the Sand Dunes at Sunset!

Young love!

And... a few weeks later, Aunt Lorel took formal engagement photos in Williamsburg for the Wedding Invitations! Thank you, Lorel! They are stunning pictures! We are so blessed to have talented and sharing family members!

This is one of my favorites!

A little note about the dress-I found it on a clearance rack in her size in January and bought it on a whim because we knew it would make the perfect engagement or rehearsal dinner dress for her one day in the future! Who would have guessed that it would have been so soon?! She looks like a million bucks in it! 

 (This was while JT was still in England and they were not dating, at all! Even though we had thought, at many times, that they would get married, there was this weird time when he was gone that we stopped presuming or even really considering it. They had broken up months before his mission; he had dated another girl, and V had dated plenty of other guys. Still, what is meant to be, will be. I don't think that most people are predestined romantically, but in their case, it almost seems to be. So many stories make it feel like their love was meant to be.)

They sure are happy in love and can't wait to marry each other!