Excerpt from the Magazine: “While out with a group of friends one summer evening, Kelly O’Donnell ran into Cole Hawkins, whom she had known as a fellow business student at Texas Christian University. She was glad to see a friendly face, even though she remembered having chided him for being late to a group project when they were students.
Cole, undeterred by that memory, took the chance meeting as an opportunity to finally ask Kelly out on a date. They struck up a romance, marked by frequent handwritten notes and letters. A few years later, they stopped by the TCU campus for a walk before dinner, and Cole asked her to marry him beside Frog Fountain, reading her a heartfelt letter he’d written.
The couple turned to another TCU graduate, Sarah Wintersteen, to help plan a late spring wedding that Kelly’s parents would fly in from New York to host. “One of the first things we did was book Robert Carr Chapel; we wanted family and friends to witness our vows where we went to college,” says Kelly, adding that they invited their pastor from
7 City Church to officiate.
