We're Getting Married!

As accident prone individuals, we spent most of our time on the rugby sidelines. Identical knee injuries in the spring of 2011 ensured we spent almost all of our time side by side, and it didn't take us long to realize just how many things we had in common. From Odyssey of the Mind to Girl Scouts, we shared so many of the same life experiences and quickly became best friends. It only took us six years to figure out it was more than that...

I was determined to propose first - mainly because Laurel was convinced that SHE was going to. So, I surprised her by coming home from work early on a Friday and drove us to Nashoba Valley Winery, where we've gone together every year for the past 4 years. There, I recreated the moment, a year before, when we decided to date while sitting in the trunk of her car in the parking lot of Country Jam. I pulled out the Aspen wood ring box I made and (through my tears) asked her to marry me!

As a nod to our year of long distance- I wanted to propose at The Continental Divide (and I had been planning it for MONTHS). I hoped to live up to Cat's incredible surprise and caught her off guard on the way to Country Jam (where we first decided to date). I staged a photo shoot in front of the mountains and, when she wasn't looking, pulled a ring out of my waistband, got down on one knee and she said "Yes!".