The wedding will be streamed live to Ashley Chi Flick’s Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/ashley.b.flick

Hi everyone. Just wanted to but some info up for those coming to the ceremony next month. Please be aware that this is now taking place in a residential neighborhood, please do not block driveways or streets when parking. Upon arrival please enter through the side gate at 2605 Sprig Dr and not the front door on Foliage. If you dont mind walking there is plenty of places to park up by the school, if you’re planning on parking closer please park on Sprig as the street is wider. Thanks so much and hope to see your faces soon!

Hey guys, there is a bit of wedding news. The wedding venue is in Lafitte and it sustained damage in Hurricane Ida, it didn’t flood but it did take significant roof damage and because of all the rain it now has water damage. They’re not sure the repairs will be done by December, they’ve already cancelled all weddings through November and with ours being early December it’s not looking good. So we’re making the decision to scale down the ceremony considerably and postpone the big reception until we can do it how we planned. It is sad but Change the Dates/Places will be sent out as soon as we get a new date settled so please keep an eye on your mailboxes and we ask that you redo your RSVPs accordingly when you recieve them. Thank you -Ashley

Welcome to our official wedding website. Here you can learn a bit more about the bride and groom’s story. You can also R.S.V.P. and check out our registry. Keep checking back for new photos and updates as the wedding date gets closer.

Met: 2/20/11 Dating: 12/29/14 Engaged: 12/21/19 Married: 12/11/21

Ashley and I met at a youth encounter in mid-February in 2011. She's a big nerd, and so am I, but I knew almost no one at this event, so I thought I'd simply attempt to make a name for myself so people knew who and what I am; when I first met her, I led off with the line “I'm a Jedi.” Needless to say, that definitely piqued her interest. Over the course of the next couple of years, we didn't really talk much between the rest of 2011 through 2012. However, in 2013, things changed due to increased proximity. We already went to the same church, but she and I also started to attend some of the same college classes and work in the same place. In turn, we actually started to talk a whole lot more. When it came to be May/June 2014, she went on a study abroad trip to Japan for five weeks. This distance and scarcity of time to talk more drove us to talk even more than before; we would talk essentially when it was morning here and night there and vice versa. One particular morning (nighttime over there), when I had brought one of my aunts to have surgery at EJGH, she hits me with this long message with confession of feelings for me. I was distraught, honored, and confused and remained that way FOR DAYS. Thing is I liked her, too, but she was more into me than I was into her at that point. It was so hard for me to process because not a single girl before had ever professed romantic interest in me. After she got back Stateside and over the course of several months until near the very end of that year, multiple times I would say: “yes, we are a couple and I like you,” but then, not long after that, I would call it off because I had no idea what I actually wanted. Needless to say, it frustrated her, her friends, and sister. But, after much fraught inner deliberation, on December 29, 2014, my mother's birthday, I said to myself that enough was enough. I finally said yes one last time, with inner resolve and determination, I said I'm doing this. I haven't and turned back since.

They say when you meet the one you just know, well I both did and didn’t. When Nathan and I met at 16, I knew I had to be friends with this boy, but I didn’t know what that friendship would develop into. We shared a lot of the same friends but didnt really spend a whole lot of time together outside of that group at first. Then due to going to the same college and eventually working at the same place we started spending more time together. In 2014, when I went to Japan, Nathan and I would talk on Skype every available opportunity. Eventually, a friend of mine in Japan convinced me to tell Nathan I liked him (you know who you are...). 6 months later we were dating. Now after 5 years of dating, he proposed and here we are we are finally ready to commit the rest of our lives to each other!

It was mid-November of 2019. I was planning on proposing at a Christmas party that mine and Ashley's closest friends were throwing on the North Shore. We were all supposed to be gussied up and looking fancy as per the tag our calling a “fancy Christmas party.” I'd already started formulating the plan to do it at the party with every other attendant except Ashley complicit and cognizant of the plan, but due to poor prior planning, the whole engagement had to be in two phases: the first for the 21st of December which was the Christmas party with a stand in ring and the second on our anniversary, the 29th of December, with the actual ring. The day and night of the party were stressful for me, but I had it figured out. I'd propose to her with a ring pop; she likes those and it's a cute gesture sponsored by her sister, Amber. After dinner, things got interesting when it came time to do photos; we all conspired to make sure Ashley and I went last. My best mate AJ got me on the hook up and actually lent me his promise ring to borrow as an actual stand in until the ring came in for phase two. It finally came out time for the pictures. We did a couple, but I finally pulled the trigger: I got down on one knee, pulled out the ring pop, and asked the question to which she said yes. After that, I did it all again, but with the lender from AJ that time and said yes also. Pictures were taken and good times were had, but that's not where the story ends. A week later, the ring came in RIGHT on time for phase two. It started out with us going to watch a movie, but things got fun and dicey when I secretly had everyone involved, with my brother this time, converge on the Old Gretna post office. It was kind of stressful and I didn't do the best planning this out except for “be here at this place for this time.” I did it for real, the third and final time, on the steps of the post office and she, again, said yes. I proposed THREE times. She said yes THREE times.

He proposed 3 times. Our friends planned a Christmas party where we all dress up and have a nice dinner and celebrate, I didn’t know what was being planned in the background. Because we had all taken the time to dress up and our adult lives don’t let us get together that often we had planned to take pictures after dinner, but my couple picture with Nathan kept getting pushed off and I couldn’t figure out why. Finally Nathan and I stepped up to take our picture. We got a couple before he stepped back and pulled a foil candy package out of his pocket, needless to say I was confused. He got down on one knee and pulled a ring pop out of its wrapper and asked the famous question “Ashley, will you marry me?” to which my immediate thoughts were that it was a cute gag so he still got to do it in front of everyone so my “yes” was more cutesy and less sincere but nevertheless he slid the ring pop on my finger. He stood up and looked at me and said “Now that ring may be a loaner for the actual ring but I have a more permanent loaner for you.” And he got back down on one knee, pulled a different ring from his pocket and asked again to which despite my bewilderment I managed a far more sincere “yes”. I wore that ring quite proudly for the time that I had it despite that it wasn’t my ring because it had gotten delayed. The 5th anniversary of when we started dating was the following weeked and another proposal was planned for then with the actual ring and I was still unaware. After seeing a movie with friends we went out to dinner and more friends kept showing up. On the steps of the old gretna post office he asked again with the real ring and of course I said yes. 3 times he asked and 3 times I said yes, and I will keep saying yes for the rest of my life.