In order to reduce risk for our guests, we will be having a much smaller ceremony than we had originally planned on 8/22/2020. We are excited to celebrate with the rest of our family and friends in 2021. We look forward to laughing, dancing and celebrating with all of you! Please look to your invite to see when we plan to celebrate with you! Your safety and comfort is paramount to us. If you do not feel comfortable joining us we completely understand. If you would like more details about the precautions we are taking, do not hesitate to let us know!
Allie and I spent our formative years like a binary pair of stars, constantly circling, never quite touching, but pulling inexorably closer together. We were born in the same hospital only months apart, watched TV upstairs at the same athletic center while our siblings played tennis, and played soccer in the same kids clinic. Allie's grandfather was the Emmeaus director for my dad's walk, and my family went to church with her great aunt and uncle. While we went to rival high schools, we attended many of the same events. Allie even took pictures of me playing soccer at the North-East rivalry game. After high school, Allie went to IU, and I went off to Purdue. It was beginning to look like the stars, though aligned, would not collide. But the laws of physics should not be so easily cast aside. The summer after our freshman year, a couple of mutual friends got together and finally brought us into the same room. To anyone less oblivious than myself, the attraction was (I have been told) obvious. Allie kept finding ways for us to end up hanging out and before I knew it, I found myself planning to ask her out more formally. Allie got a group of friends to go ice skating, and I knew the time was right. I got on the ice, and within minutes fell head over heels. After a short trip to the ER for some stitches, I decided I would go through with asking her out anyway. A little over six years later, I have been back on the ice without incident. Oh, and she agreed to marry me. Please join us in celebrating the joining of our hands, our families, and our lives. --Mac