WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!

Dear Friends and Family, We hope this announcement finds you and your loved ones safe and healthy! With safety being a priority we have decided to cancel our 2021 wedding reception. As much as we were so excited to celebrate with everyone, after prayerful consideration we feel it is not safe to have a large gathering at this time. While so much with our wedding plans did not go as originally planned we are so happy to be married and wouldn’t change anything about how our wedding turned out. We thank you all for the love, support, cards, gifts and word of congratulations throughout these first months of marriage. We are sad to have to make this decision but hope when the world is safer we can see all of you who have made such an impact on our lives. For now we are focusing on surviving all of the crazy that this first year of marriage has thrown at us. We just moved for the second time, Sean started working in a new position with Tesla, and Erin is job hunting, and we have another move coming up this weekend. Please bear with us while we complete this third move and try to get announcements mailed and thank you’s completed. Know you are all in our prayers and we appreciate everything each of you has done for us to support our marriage. All our love, Erin & Sean For those who weren’t able to attend the ceremony in person or virtually please visit our website for links to watch our wedding highlights video as well as see some of our wedding photos! To View Highlights from our awesome wedding check out this link! https://vimeo.com/435199466

The story of how we met doesn't really start when we first met, it starts a bit later than that. We first met sometime in College at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, freshman year. We had mutual friends especially on the ballroom dance team and would see each other at events. We spent most of our college careers dancing in and out of mutual friend circles, close enough to recognize a familiar face, but never close enough to ask the other person for a dance. When we actually met was in Mid January of 2017 at Jitterbugs in Omaha Nebraska. We recognized each other enough to talk and find out what we both had been up to post college and danced together that night. After a couple of Friday nights seeing each other at jitterbugs, Sean asked me to grab a drink after dancing. We went to the Wicked Rabbit and I was amazed at how easily conversation flowed and the rest is history! We have continued to dance with each other along the way, and thus far I couldn't ask for a better dance partner!

When Sean visited in April we went to Lauritzen Gardens his first full day in town. We went in the middle of the day on a Thursday thinking it’d be peaceful and quiet. We were mistaken! We rolled in the parking lot to see rows of school buses and school children everywhere! We continue into the arboretum and made it all the way to the overlook at the end. At this point there were some people around but not too crowded. Sean said “I have a question to ask you” started reaching inside his jacket and I panicked!! I saw a crew of kids just down below and all of a sudden got really really shy and said “wait! Outside!”. Sean looked pretty flustered and I felt really bad but I had completely killed the moment. We continued outside to see more swarms of children with tons of little tents set up with educational material for them. We made it all the way to the Japanese garden near the other end of the park. After climbing to the top of the mini mountain we made it back down to the gate when Sean stopped. He said “so you know I kinda like you a lot a lot”. I laughingly responded “oh you like me a lot a lot huh?” He said “I have an important question I’d like to ask you”. I responded “wait! If you’re going to ask me a serious question I need to be able to see your eyes” He was pretty exasperated about this but I took them off and stole my dad’s line after he got laughed at by mom and asked me “Would you like to be buried with my family?” I said yes and he followed it up with “Will you marry me?” I said “I would love to” Then we laughed at how ridiculously not picture perfect our engagement was and how we’re both just a pair of goofballs.