We're getting married!

Lauren was living in California for less than a year and wanted to start meeting new people. She ultimately caved in and decided to join a dating website. Yes, we met on a dating website, and it obviously worked! Lauren and Coulton started talking online but eventually lost touch before ever meeting. A few months later, Coulton reached back out to Lauren. They decided to meet back in May of 2013 in Marina Del Rey where Coulton was living at the time. Their first date consisted of 3 dates in 1 --- a rooftop lounge at Hotel Erwin in Venice, drinking our favorite bottle of wine at a cozy tapas restaurant, and ending the night singing "Circle of Life" at karaoke night at the good ole' Whaler. Thereafter, they continued to see each other, and the rest is history...

It was the day after Thanksgiving. Lauren's entire family was in town, and Coulton had some of his family visiting for the holiday as well. Coulton was trying to find the perfect time to pop the question - ideally private when it was just the two of them together, but private time was scarce. The morning after Thanksgiving, Coulton had asked Lauren if she wanted to take a walk down to the beach with their goldendoodle, Brody. Lauren kindly denied thinking it was just like any other morning, and stated she would just take Brody out for a quick potty walk. Upon coming back in from the walk, Coulton was on his knee. It was a definite yes! It was completely unexpected, simple, and just the two of us - just how Lauren wanted it. Of course our family came over afterwards to celebrate. Many bottles of champagne were popped and then we headed into Venice to continue the celebration!