I feel like half the weddings I post are of people I met through Impact Retreat at Texas A&M. Thankfully there are only a couple hundred more people I know because of Impact, so I should be done posting Impact weddings somewhere around the year 2060.
With that in mind: I met Jeremy through Impact back in 2010, when he was co-chair for the orange camp named Gad. He was the cool guy who worked at Olive Garden. And if you watch the film above, you’ll know that Olive Garden is exactly how he met Jourdan.
The Olive Garden Story
It comes out in the toasts, and it is worth waiting for. Short version: they were at lunch, Jourdan mentioned she thought the guy bringing the food was cute, and her friend decided the correct move was to leave Jourdan’s name and phone number behind. Jourdan found the first note and tore it up immediately, because she does not like attention on her. So the friend left a second one in secret.
Sorry, not sorry. You’re welcome.
The Toasts
Can we talk about the toasts? You know when the dad pulls out six pages of typed material, single spaced, that it is going to be good. And it was. His side got up and told the story of Jeremy describing Jourdan for the first time, which apparently consisted entirely of “red dress, that’s all I’m saying.”
Chubby Knuckles
Filming their wedding day was completely awesome. Jourdan and Jeremy are exactly the laid back, relaxed kind of couple I love to film. I had fun, they had fun, and neither of them was afraid to laugh at themselves, which is how we ended up with the ring not quite going on Jeremy’s finger in front of everybody.
That kind of couple makes telling the story of the day easy. All I really had to do was keep rolling.