‘You Know That I Love You, and Want to Spend the Rest of My Life With You, Right?’

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times BRITTANY AND JOSEPH HOLLIS Live: Birmingham/Norwood Married: Jan. 6, 2019 Met: Fall 2010, at a Kappa party near Alabama A&M University’s campus in Huntsville. Brittany was beginning her sophomore year, and Joseph was beginning his senior year. They did not formally meet that night, but Brittany thought Joseph was attractive and “went on a search” to inquire about him through his line brother, who then passed along her number to Joseph. When Joseph called, “We talked for hours,” said Brittany. “The thing that resonated with me is that he is the first guy that ever introduced himself to me using his full name… He called me and said, ‘I’m Joseph Matthew Hollis’ and explained how he got my number, and that stood out to me,” Brittany said. “We talked like we knew each other, we talked about random things and figured out we had a lot of commonalities, and within a week we decided to meet.” They arranged a quick meet-up at Normal Hills student apartments on campus.  “It was really funny… I didn’t want to go because [my friend and I] were leaving the rec center and had just finished...