Juliana Hirn ’17 ’19 and Brandon Akers ’18

Brandon and I initially met in a young adults’ college Bible study in 2017. It wasn’t until years later when my friends from church encouraged me to “go say hi to the guy working the cameras.” I went back to church that day – attending two services and trying to get up the courage to say hi to Brandon, the camera guy. We passed each other in the hall, had the most awkward “hello,” and then went our separate ways. I didn’t want that to be our only interaction, so I went back to the “guy working the cameras,” and the rest is history! We got married August 11, 2023, with a heat index of 112 degrees at UCF!