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The Floyd Press
by Wanda Combs
Friday, February 16, 2007

 Career paths took them different directions, but two longtime friends finally “found” each other and will be saying their marriage vows this fall.

Carroll County natives Chris Nobili and Christina Hall, who became engaged in a romantic setting in Ireland, have had a friendship bond since their childhood. “We’ve known each other all of our lives,” says Christina. “His father and my grandfather were best buddies.” His family has managed the Carollwood Campground in Carroll County for years. Her grandfather also ran a flea market on their property. “Our families were just very good friends while we were growing up. That’s how we knew each other as small children,” explains Christina. “We were both so shy it was pitiful, so we didn’t talk a lot as small children…. Growing up, I always had a crush on him, but he didn’t have a clue I would go out with him.”

The two attended the same high school; however, they didn’t see very much of each other. He joined the Future Farmers of America and Future Business Leaders of America. She was a dancer and was often traveling with a clogging team.

They also went to neighboring colleges. He attended Virginia Tech, and she went to Radford University. They continued to be friends and often emailed each other, “keeping in touch, seeing how life was going with one another,” Christina says. “We never dated. We were just good friends.”

Chris majored in finance and received a Bachelor of Science in Business in 1999. She majored in human development – early childhood development and received her Bachelor of Science in 2001.

After graduation, he followed job opportunities to Richmond, DC and then New York City, where he lived for three years and worked for Bank of America. She moved to Roanoke and Tennessee, where she pursued her interest in dancing as a member of a competition team in Nashville. “That was my life at that time,” Christina comments. And while she was staying busy with her career, Chris was doing the same, she adds. “With his career, he has really climbed up the career ladder fast.” Chris now works as a Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions department of Wachovia Capital Markets in Charlotte, NC. He is one of the youngest vice presidents on the East Coast for Wachovia.

In 2005 Christina moved back to Carroll County, where she now works as a 4-H youth coordinator for the county. She is also a traveling member of the three-time World Champion Clogging Team “Rhythm-n-Motion.”

About the same time as Christina moved back to Carroll County, Chris had moved to Charlotte. Christina’s best friend, Melissa, knew how much Christina cared for Chris and that he wanted to go out with Christina. Melissa emailed Chris and encouraged him to invite Christina for lunch. “She planted the seed for him to contact me,” Christina says.

Christina, who has a favorite hobby of collecting rocks and minerals, was working for a man selling those types of things at the Labor Day flea market in 2005, when he came by to see her. “It had been years since I had actually seen him. He walked up, and I hugged him. And from that moment on, he started text messaging and calling me. We knew God had finally put us together in the right time and setting.” “God definitely knew what He was doing,” Christina remarks. “I always joke with everyone. It took him 20 years to ask me out.”

The couple dated for about a year, and he had talked about taking a trip to London, Christina recalls. “One of his friends was getting married over there, and we were invited to their wedding. I was nervous about it. I had never flown and been overseas.” After visiting London, the couple decided to go to Ireland for some added vacation time. She had always wanted to go to Ireland. Christina says that not long after they landed from their early morning flight, they got a rental car and drove to the Cliffs of Moher in Clare. “That was our first sightseeing spot.” At their destination, they stopped in the gift shop before walking to the top of the “magnificent” cliffs. They met a couple from Texas and after getting to know them decided to get a picture with them when they returned to the bottom of the cliffs. Walking down, Chris told Christina he wanted to stop, and they took in the view. Christina recalls, “To the right of us was an old castle. To the left of us were the actual cliffs. Behind us was the ocean with the sun setting.” With those views as a backdrop, where Chris said later “God must have had his spotlight on us,” he proposed. He actually had her engagement ring on his finger as he pointed to the view and the curvature of the cliffs, but Christina didn’t see it for awhile. When he asked her to marry him, she says she “completely froze in time.” Then he asked her again. “Of course, I said yes. It was just the most magical setting ever, and he wanted to make sure it was that way for me….He is such a caring person. I’m definitely blessed.”

Chris, now 29, and Christina, 28, are busy planning their wedding and also want it to be a special occasion. Their ceremony will take place October 6, 2007 at the historic Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church in Floyd County. The church is one of several rock churches established by Bob Childress, title character of the book “The Man Who Moved A Mountain.”

Christina says before she and Chris decided on a church they wanted to visit the people who made up the church. “We went to a Sunday service, and they were just so nice and welcoming. They made us feel like we had been members of that church for years. We felt right at home….We had the right feeling.” The church building itself is beautiful, Christina adds. The couple plans a nature themed wedding with colors of yellow and green.

After the ceremony the reception will be held in the newly remodeling reception room of Chateau Morrisette.

With the church, winery and Parkway as the setting, the couple looks forward to a very special wedding day, says Christina. “It’s a miracle how life has panned out for both of us.”