From the perspective of the bride:

Hanan and I met at Birmingham-Southern College in the Fall of 2019. I was a junior and Hanan was a senior at the time. I was the Teaching Assistant for the Biology 101 class which is a required course for non-biology majors to fulfill before graduation. Hanan and several other boys on the baseball team were all seated together in the back of the classroom. They were always talking and laughing in class, but they got their work submitted on time so I didn’t give them much thought.

A few weeks into the semester, one of my sorority sisters was looking for a date to bring to our upcoming date party. A few names were tossed around, and Kat Savage mentioned Hanan Mauldin. I recognized the name from the class roster and listened to Kat go on and on about what a good date he would be. Her elevator pitch for Hanan had all of my keywords. She said he was “on the baseball team”, and he’s “hilarious” and that he could “literally talk to a brick wall”. I made a mental note to figure out which of the baseball boys in the back of the classroom he was just in case I needed a date later on.

As a Teaching Assistant for Biology 101, one of my responsibilities was to make weekly quizzes based on the assigned readings. The readings were trivial, and frankly at the bottom of my priority list with my heavy course load that semester. Before class one day, I quickly threw together a quiz after skimming the required reading, hit print, and distributed the quizzes. As I was collecting them, I found one with a red pen mark correcting a grammatical error I had made while writing one of the questions. Lo and behold that guy with the good sense of humor Kat had mentioned had just made the first move… on his TA… in class. After grading the quizzes, I wrote him a note back and passed back the quizzes individually.

Within a month of correcting my quiz, he had added me on Snapchat, gotten my number, and asked me to Formal and Sigma Chi’s next date party. We started officially dating on December 3rd, 2019 and transitioned to dating long-distance in March 2020 when the pandemic began. In the Spring of 2021, Hanan was accepted into the Harbert College of Business at Auburn and I was accepted into Auburn College of Veterinary Medicine. Becoming a veterinarian has always been a dream of mine. The day I received my acceptance call, Hanan snuck out of baseball practice to meet me behind the fence and give me a big (albeit sweaty) hug and a kiss before scurrying back to practice. We graduated together in May of 2021 in one of the last classes to ever receive a degree from Birmingham-Southern College.

While in school at Auburn, Hanan and I made several lifelong friends. Vet school is not for the faint of heart, and I am so grateful for the friends we made in both the MBA program and the vet school. Hanan graduated with a Master’s in Business Administration and a Masters in Finance in May of 2023. After graduation, he began working at Auburn Bank. While in Auburn we adopted Roy, our goofy Golden Retriever. He is featured in the pictures from our proposal jumping into the lake as soon as Hanan popped the question. Hanan proposed to me at The Red Barn on August 10th, 2024. He completely surprised me, both with the proposal itself and the party afterward. The ring he gave me is his grandmother’s band with the original side stones and it is the most beautiful ring I have ever seen. I could not be more excited for this next chapter of our lives and to share this special day with all of our friends and family!

J&H

Wedding Day

Reception