Who are Bryan and Kim?

Bryan is the son of Earl and Tommye Price of Winchester, Tennessee. He graduated cum laude from Auburn University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, and then graduated from the University of Florida in 2005 with a master's degree in Industrial Systems Engineering. He works as the lead engineer for a program office at Eglin AFB. Learn more about:

Kim is the daughter of Bill and Marion Ledbetter of Auburn, Alabama. She graduated cum laude from Auburn University in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in Psychology and completed a master's degree in International Business from Webster University in Vienna, Austria in 1995. She has worked for EDS for the past decade, most recently as a program manager for EDS' European operations. Learn more about: 

Frequently asked questions...

How do you know each other? 
Bryan's mother's best friend from high school is my college roommate's mother. Too complicated? We met each other at Auburn University back around 1990. My roommate - Jerilee Bradford Fuller - and Bryan had known each other all their lives and we all went to the same church, so we used to run into each other.

How did you end up together? 
Since we never knew each other very well in college, we lost touch after graduation - although I occasionally got updates from Jerilee. Nearly a decade had passed before Bryan and I ran into each other at church in Auburn on the Sunday morning after the Auburn vs. Mississippi State game. That was October 2001. I gave Bryan a business card and a couple days later he sent me an e-mail...  

Did anyone play cupid?
Not exactly but we did get some encouragement from a couple of people. Jerilee and her mom and sister had come to visit me when I was living in London and when I asked about Bryan, Mrs. Judy Bradford got all excited and said, "Oh you would be perfect for each other!" It seemed kinda crazy since I figured I would never see him again and we lived so far apart. That was October 1999. Two years later, Mrs. Patty Spring saw me at church in Auburn one Sunday when Bryan was there, too. She gave him a nudge and a smile with a comment about me being single.

How long did you date before you got engaged? 
We went on our first date in December 2001 and got engaged one year later.

How did you manage a long distance relationship?  
Bryan lived in Florida and I lived in Texas. We were 750 miles apart so we had to rely on plane travel. Fortunately, his work brings him to Dallas/Fort Worth about once a month. So we saw each other a couple of weekends a month, plus a week here and there when business allowed, and survived an 8 day driving tour of Europe! 

What did you do for your first date? 
Bryan met me at my parents' house in Auburn, Alabama where we played fetch with Jakey-the-wonder-dog and chatted with my mom and dad. Later, we went out to The Mellow Mushroom and The Olde Auburn Ale House with my brother Steve and our friend Molly.

What advice would you give to your single friends?  
Don't take advice on love and dating! It's invariably misguided.

These pictures were taken in a photo booth at a train station in Zurich, Switzerland on our first trip to Europe together (June 2002).

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