Couple Recreates Childhood Photo During Engagement Party (Exclusive)

• Logan Schultz and Wil Warner have recognized one another for many of their lives
• The North Carolina locals had been briefly neighbors once they had been very younger, and sometimes had playdates collectively
• One memorable second was when Schultz, at age 2, and Warner, at age 3, had been captured in a photograph in 2003, sitting collectively at a youngsters’ play desk
• So, after getting engaged in April 2024, the couple’s mother and father determined to recreate the photograph

Logan Schultz and Wil Warner have recognized one another for many of their lives. The North Carolina locals had been briefly neighbors once they had been very younger and sometimes had playdates collectively. One memorable second was when Schultz, at age 2, and Warner, at age 3, had been captured in a photograph in 2003, sitting collectively at a youngsters’ play desk.

As the years handed, the 2 finally misplaced contact. However, due to a number of household connections and lots of mutual pals, they reconnected throughout faculty one summer season. Despite Schultz, now 24, attending the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Warner, now 25, being at The Citadel on the time, destiny introduced them collectively.

From the second they reunited on the seaside and spent a couple of days out on a ship, the remaining was historical past — they’ve been inseparable ever since.

“We simply match one another completely and really really feel like one another’s finest good friend,” Schultz, who works in medical system gross sales, tells PEOPLE solely. “As extra time has handed and extra ‘life’ has occurred, we’ve developed such a detailed relationship and particular bond — I couldn’t think about the place we’d be with out each other.”

Last April, Warner received down on one knee and proposed to Schultz proper the place all of it started — on the boat. Their households, together with some shut pals, had been there, watching from the dock. It was an ideal but extremely surreal day.

Not lengthy after, the couple’s mothers had been chatting once they got here up with an thought: they’d use the children’ desk the place certainly one of their favourite photographs of them collectively as youngsters was taken for his or her engagement get together. “We knew that we needed to make use of it in some regard throughout our wedding ceremony festivities,” Schultz shares. “Side word: my mama retains all the things and loves photos.”

“It was actually actually humorous — seeing how small we each had been within the previous photos of us as infants to now barely becoming within the seats!” Schultz provides. “It was positively a staple at our engagement get together and one thing that our friends absolutely received’t neglect about us.”

At the get together, their mother and father snapped a photograph of Schultz and Warner sitting on the desk, recreating the previous photograph from 22 years in the past. Looking on the photograph, Schultz says what resonated probably the most is that she and Warner have really stood the check of time.

“Even although we weren’t current in one another’s lives as we grew up, our paths by some means managed to cross once more as we received older — main us proper again to 1 one other,” she says.

“The Little Tikes desk is certainly an emblem of the place we got here from and, most positively, a nod to our mother and father for at all times being so supportive and considerate on the subject of making this season of our lives so memorable and particular,” she provides.

Not lengthy after, Schultz shared a side-by-side of the 2 photographs on TikTok. Soon, she watched because the TikTok went viral, amassing greater than 635,000 views. “from then to now!!!” she captioned the submit. “who would’ve thought!!?!? can’t imagine my mama saved this for all of those years 🥹❤️ we go WAY again 🤣😅.”

“I had NO clue that the video would go viral,” the bride-to-be says. “I like making movies of issues that I take pleasure in, locations that I’ve been, or simply sharing what’s happening in my life in the intervening time — posting on social media positively offers me a glimpse of my very own reminiscences to look again on. But to get up and see that my video had gone viral? Insane!”

“It’s been actually enjoyable studying via the feedback seeing so many reactions to the video: particularly seeing firms like VISA and Carnival have commented, which was actually cool,” she provides. “Some folks even thought that Wil and I had been siblings, and even thought that we by some means have an organized marriage … which positively gave us a very good snicker.”

While the couple remains to be not sure if they will use the nostalgic desk of their wedding ceremony, Schultz says she does not foresee them eliminating it anytime quickly.

“Maybe we’ll use it sooner or later with our personal youngsters,” she says.