Match made in heaven! Ben and Erin Napier had a love story worthy of a tv present lengthy earlier than they began showing on HGTV.
The Dwelling City stars met after they had been each college students at Jones County Junior School in Mississippi. The couple started courting in December 2004 and shortly determined that they’d discovered The One.
“On December 7, 2004 [Ben] and I met in our school yearbook room concerning the characteristic story we had been writing about him,” Erin recalled through Instagram in December 2019. “I used to be the design editor and for 2 years had observed him, at all times the focal point, everybody’s greatest buddy, my largest crush. December 8, we took the images for the yearbook. December 9, we went on our first date and he met my mama. December 10, we appeared on the Christmas lights in Mason Park. December 13, we determined we might get married sometime. It sounds loopy to you, possibly. But it surely makes good sense to me.”
Ben and Erin acquired engaged in September 2007 and tied the knot in November 2008. After renovating their dwelling, the pair caught the attention of HGTV, who provided them a present. Dwelling City premiered in January 2016 and options renovations of their hometown of Laurel, Mississippi.
Amid their success, the TV personalities welcomed daughters Helen and Mae in January 2018 and Might 2021, respectively. With parenthood, although, got here criticism from web trolls.
“I usually have a impolite remark from somebody and I can have a look at their profile and see this can be a mom who has kids,” Erin completely instructed Us Weekly in January 2021. “That is one other lady attacking me as a girl or a mom or no matter. I like to start with: ‘You’ll completely not communicate to me this manner in individual. Why do you are feeling prefer it’s OK to do it right here? It’s not. And this little nook of the web belongs to me so that you’re not welcome right here anymore.’ … Anytime somebody looks like they are often impolite on my social media account, I’d wish to allow them to know this isn’t an appropriate technique to talk and also you’re not going to be welcome right here anymore, and I block them.”
Regardless of the naysayers, Ben and Erin have by no means overlooked one another on their journey to fame. “It’s Erin and me,” he instructed CountryLiving.com in March 2017. “Not Erin and me and our mothers, not Erin and me and the community, not Erin and me and our followers, if you wish to name them that. So far as our marriage goes, it’s me and Erin and God. We work every little thing out collectively, and every little thing has labored out to date.”
Scroll by way of the gallery under to revisit Ben and Erin’s romance by way of the years.
