As we have several family members and friends who are high risk for COVID, we are taking precautions. We ask everyone who plans to attend to be fully vaccinated (two weeks post second injection). We also understand if you prefer not to attend. Please make sure you have submitted your vaccination information to batkawedding2022@gmail.com by April 28th. Thank you! We’re looking forward to celebrating our big day with you all! Please continue to check our website for updates 😊

How We Met: Believe it or not, we met on a dating app (shoutout Tinder) at the end of the 2016 summer. Brock had just graduated from Illinois State and Sam was beginning her second year teaching. Throughout the last five (plus) years, we have grown tremendously together. Through the good and the tough times, we continue to be each other’s best friend and biggest cheerleader. Through figuring out who we are and what we want in life; a career change for Brock, both working on and earning Masters degrees, buying a home, and becoming dog parents, we continue to prioritize our relationship and life together. The Proposal: We got engaged on December 23, 2020. It happened at the Gazebo on the Batavia Riverwalk, which is where we went after our first date in August 2016. We had never made it back there, although we have tried (it floods easily in the summer!). Brock played it off that we were going to take Gable for a walk down on the Riverwalk, which is something we always did prior to moving out of our parents' homes. When we got to the Riverwalk, Brock got out with Gable first and said “we should show him the gazebo!” When we arrived to the gazebo, Brock got down on one knee and asked Sam to marry him, and of course the answer, after some tears of happiness, was YES!