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Update: We’ve made the difficult decision to cancel our wedding due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We wish you and your loved ones health and safety during this time, and thank you for your understanding.
Update: We’ve made the difficult decision to cancel our wedding due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We wish you and your loved ones health and safety during this time, and thank you for your understanding.
July 17, 2021
Ojai, California
#MeyersBetterHalf

Carrick & Hayley

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Livestream information is below. We can't wait to celebrate with you next year!

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Hayley Tashjian

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Carrick Meyers

#MeyersBetterHalf

July 17, 2021

Ojai, California

The Virtual Wedding

Please join us July 18th at 4pm

The day has finally come! We have decided to postponed our wedding reception until next year. But we would love to have you Join us for the virtual wedding July 18th at 4pm PST. We want to see how you celebrate with us. Feel free to dress up, log on, and use our Hashtag #MeyersBetterHalf To watch the ceremony live please go to our YouTube page- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AeWiiPC-8v8 (You will need to copy this link and paste it in the search bar) The live stream will start around 3:45pm PST but the ceremony won’t start until 4:00pm PST We are so excited to celebrate with you next year July 17th, 2021! Please note we will not be sending out any more paper invitations so feel free to RSVP at the top of the website

Wedding Take 2

This Feels Personal 2020

To our Treasured Family and Friends. Planning a wedding this year has been difficult to say the least. The two of us have been closely watching the COVID-19 updates for months, trying to figure out whether we could move forward with our wedding planned for July 18th, 2020. We’ve been hoping for good news that would lead us to believe a large wedding would be possible in July, but after the announcements by Gov. Newsom in early May, we realized that the stars were not going to align in our favor. We have decided to make some changes to our wedding & reception. We will still be getting married on July 18th, 2020 with just our immediate family in a small, backyard wedding. Our wedding celebration/reception with all of our friends and extended family will be postponed one year. The one-year celebration/reception will be on Saturday, July 17th, 2021 in Ojai, CA at the Soule Park Golf Course (this is the same location on the wedding invites that were sent out). We do not have all the details lined up yet, but we know we still want to throw a wedding reception and celebrate our marriage with those close to us. If you want to celebrate with us on our July 18th wedding date, we will be live-streaming our wedding ceremony, so feel free to dress up, log on, and use our Hashtag #MeyersBetterHalf. The details of how to stream our wedding will be available on our wedding website soon. We were both so excited to not only get married this year, but celebrate it with our close family and friends. We are deeply saddened that this pandemic took the opportunity away from us, but we are thankful and excited that we can still throw a big wedding celebration party on our one-year wedding anniversary! We sincerely hope to see each and every one of you next year. We will continue to post updates on our website, so make sure to save this link so you can stay current on the plans for next year! Sincerely, Carrick & Hayley

The Proposal Part 1

Chapter 1: Our Story Begins

Our story begins in Denver, CO in 2018. Carrick and Hayley and talking about getting engaged like most couples six years into a relationship do. Hayley wants something traditional and classic. Carrick wants to get Hayley a uniquely beautiful ring, and yet every ring that Carrick shows Hayley is in her opinion horrendously ugly. Carrick is sad. He is dejected. He’s not sure what to do seeing as this is a pretty big deal and he’s failing spectaularly. Months go by and our protagonist makes little ground, even his more conservative ideas are met with weird faces. Fast forward to Thanksgiving 2018. Set stage: Hayley and Carrick are in Ojai, CA for the weekend spending time with Hayley’s family. Carrick (our protagonist) is talking with Morgan (Hayley’s sister and Maid of Honor), and Hayley is nowhere to be found... Carrick: “Hey Morgan, I’m having a lot of difficulty finding the right ring for Hayley, I want to get her something that’s different but everytime I show her a ring I like she gets a look of shock and horror on her face” Morgan: “Carrick I think you’re being hard on yourself, you are the most talented and amazing person I have ever met in my life. You are the brother I always dreamed of having and I hope my future children are just like you.” Carrick: “Aww thanks Morgan, but I could definitely use your help finding a ring. You and Hayley are super close and I know you’ll have a better idea as to what Hayley likes in terms of an engagement ring. Any help you can offer would be appreciated!” Morgan: “No problem Carrick, I’ll do whatever I need to in order to make sure you’re my future brother in law!” Hayley and Carrick finish up their lovely weekend in Ojai and head back home to Denver, CO. Life returns to normal for our star couple as fall turns to winter...

The Proposal Part 2

Chapter 2: Target Acquired

One month later Chris is visiting Morgan in San Luis Obispo (where Morgan is getting her degree in Landscape Architecture) and they decide to hit the town and do a little shopping. As they wander through the streets of SLO they stumble upon a jewelry store that is going out of business. Our duo goes into the jewelry store to check out the deals and lo and behold they discover...a ring! Not only a beautiful, gorgeous ring but one that is unique and in their words "destined for Hayley". The two fawn over the ring, they try it on, they take pictures and videos, and then they call Carrick... One thousand miles away we find our fan favorite Carrickter doing what he normally does on a Tuesday at 11:00 AM (earnin and burnin aka snappin necks and cashin checks aka at work like a normal person). Carrick gets a call from Chris, which is strange seeing as he doesn't normally get Tuesday morning calls from Hayley's mom. Carrick answers the phone and discovers it's not just Chris, but Chris and Morgan! Pictures and videos of a ring start appearing in Carrick's phone and suddenly our hero is faced with a decision, is this the ring for Hayley? The ring that she will treasure and cherish for the rest of her life? The ring that whenever Carrick drives her crazy she looks down at and it makes it all worthwhile (Spoiler alert, it is). Carrick hangs up the phone and puzzles over the pictures, ten minutes later he calls back and presto! He is on his way to being a husband. Carrick coordinates with the sobbing pair over the phone to figure out how to get the ring to him so he can propose. Luckily, Morgan is coming out a few weeks later to visit friends in Leadville, CO so they hatch a plan in order to keep Hayley clueless as to what is going on. Carrick calls his family to let them know he bought a ring (pretty sure Chris called Carrick's mom Karen before he even could lol). A few short weeks later Morgan arrives in Colorado and delivers the package to Carrick...

The Proposal Part 3

Chapter 3: Fire and Ice

The third chapter of our epic saga begins with our hero, the one and only Carrick Meyers, having found the perfect ring for the heroine and darling princess of our story, Hayley Tashjian. The hiding place for said ring has been established, and while Carrick knows of what's to come, Hayley remains clueless. Hayley and Carrick first become "official" (whatever that means) on February 14th, 2013. For their 6-year anniversary they decide to go to Estes Park, CO for a little romantic weekend getaway. A few weeks before, Hayley does what any normal and sane person would do to their boyfriend of 6 years. She freaks out on him for not even starting to plan OR save for an engagement ring. Carrick kept his mouth shut while his mind jumped into overdrive thinking, "AHHHH the ring is like 6 frickin steps away from us right now! Why is life so cruel to those who are good and just?!". Part of Carrick wanted to grab the ring right then and move the proposal date up a few weeks, but thankfully our hero is not a complete idiot (only a partial one) and took the berating that he rightfully deserved for making a perfect being like Hayley wait 6 years for a proposal. Cut forward to Estes Park (February 8th). Hayley and Carrick get snuggled into their cabin and get ready to bunker down for the night. However, Carrick has never been to Estes Park, and while he has done the research on potential places to propose he has not found THE place to propose. Shortly after Hayley falls asleep, Carrick utilizes the skills he learned in high school and makes a discrete exit from the cabin. Hours go by and our white knight is still gallivanting around Estes Park without any success. As he makes his way back to the cabin he decides to go down to the river by the cabin and finds the spot! A beautiful rocky outcrop in the middle of the frozen river that runs by their cabin. A spot worthy of both Instagram and Facebook. Our hero goes to sleep excited and nauseous for what tomorrow holds in store..

The Proposal Part 4

Chapter 4: Fairytales Do Exist

The day is February 9th, 2019. Carrick and Hayley spend the day exploring Estes Park, checking out the local sights and getting acquainted with the town. Hayley asks Carrick whether something is wrong about 15 times during the day seeing as he is being very quiet and acting strange. In particular, Carrick doesn't want Hayely to put her arm around him (because he doesn't want her to feel the ring in his pocket). Dinner reservations are set for 6:00 PM (at least that's what Carrick tells Hayley). Around 5:00 PM Carrick tells Hayley he wants to show her this really cool spot he found when he was walking around that morning. Our hero leads his unsuspecting damsel down to the river, (who is still clueless as to what's about to happen) going through the words he has rehearsed in his head for this very moment. Once he gets her down to the pre-destined spot he grabs her hand, gets down on one knee, pulls out the ring and...forgets everything he had been rehearsing. Words pour from his nervous little heart, words honest and sincere but not nearly as smooth and suave as he had planned (at one point he literally says, "I have no idea what I'm saying"). Hayley takes pity on her future husband, says yes to this extremely good looking but bumbling man, and embraces him in a passionate kiss. The two spend some time enjoying the excitement of the moment, then call their families to give them the news (seeing as Carrick hadn’t told anyone, including Hayley's family the day he was going to propose). They spend the rest of their three day weekend in a state of floating happiness, and then return home to Denver, CO to begin planning their wedding. And so ends the tale of how our two love birds came to be engaged. While this may be the end of one story, we hope that all of you reading this will be there with the star couple when a new chapter in their story begins on the day they are married. For everyone who made it to this point please be sure to request a high-five from Carrick.

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