Erik and I want to thank everyone on our guest list so very much for being so flexible and understanding of our wedding journey with COVID. Please see our new wedding invites and the other sections of this website for our updates, however rest assured we will be having our fully outdoor, tented wedding on July 31st, 2021!

I met Erik as I walked into his Physical Therapy office to begin treatment on my neck, after a painful car crash a few years prior. I had been living in the Grand Rapids area, attending grad school, for a little over a year. As most of you who know Erik know, my first impressions of him were that he was a sweet, quiet, and insanely intelligent guy who was genuinely interested in his patients' well-being. As time progressed and my therapy time began to dwindle, I realized how much I was going to truly miss talking with Erik the few times a week I was able to see him. Realizing our time as therapist and patient were quickly coming to an end, I then called upon my now bridesmaid, Ashley, and recruited her to help me write a thank you card that I could give him on my last day of therapy. She convinced me multiple times to go through with it, as I was constantly trying to talk myself into the fact that he was not interested. In the card, I genuinely thanked him for helping me get better and added my personal number to the end of it. What happened next was mostly a blur of nervous energy, as all I remember about that last therapy session is physically throwing the thank you card at him and running out of his clinic so fast I kicked up dust. I obviously have never done this before, and only realized later than when he handed me his business card and told me to contact him with any questions related to my treatment, he too had written his personal phone number on it. Two hours later and we were texting, and a week after that was our first date. Now I have a personal physical therapist to help me whenever I need, which was truly the end goal of all of this (he willingly concedes to this notion, don't worry). In all seriousness, Erik and I knew very quickly we had found our forever person in each other. It only took 5 months of us dating for us to move in together, and a short 9 months later for him to ask me to say I do!