Due to COVID-19, we have postponed our wedding. Our wedding date is now Friday August 13, 2021. All other details, including locations and times, remain the same. Please refer to the ‘Schedule’ tab for all the event details.

My bridesmaid Jam dragged me out to the bar (The Whisky Bar) one cold Friday night in October, 2013. Jam was out with her new friends from Law School, and I was studying for mid-terms for my first semester of my M.Eng... in sweatpants and a hoodie. After a very convincing phone call I proceeded to get ready, drive downtown and meet up with the girls. At the end of the night, while leaving the bar, one of Jam's friends bumped into a friend... who happened to be out with Curt (shout out to Steve Powell!!). Curtis started chatting with me, asked for my number, and I honestly left thinking I would never see him again. However... a few minutes later I got a text, which turned into more texts, which evolved into a few phone calls over the coming weeks. I guess you could say we hit it off and just 'clicked' right away. By the end of October we had our first date, and well, now, the rest is history...♡

It was a long time coming... nearly 6 years to be exact... and so surprising me was going to take more than a little effort. Our parents had been informed over May long weekend; he asked my father for permission for my hand. Two days before the proposal he told me we were meeting friends for dinner at Dow's Lake. I didn't think anything of it. Friday came, we arrived, parked, and began walking toward the restaurant when he got a fake phone call to say our friends were caught in traffic. Curtis asked if I wanted to go for a walk along the water since we had some time to kill - I suggested a patio beer but for some odd reason he wasn't into the idea... We walked along the water when he turned and said "I can't keep up the charade any longer." I looked at him and laughed, "You're joking." Because folks, this wasn't the first time he faked me out for fun. He said he was serious, then added in a few sweet lines, got down on one knee, and asked me to marry him. All I could see was the ring in that moment - it was so absolutely perfect. I kept telling him how much I loved it and forgetting to tell him how much I loved him... women, am I right? We hugged, we kissed, we laugh cried (I ugly cried), we snapped a few photos... oh, and I said YES! He then said he had a surprise planned... we drove down Preston, and he walked me into Giovanni's, where both our parents were waiting with a bottle of Champagne and flowers. It was a very special evening to remember; and some way, somehow, he managed to surprise me!