We can't wait to celebrate with you!

Bill was late to the first day of Botany class, and the only seat left was next to Lauren. The first few months of class it was mostly Bill cracking jokes trying to make Lauren laugh, then they started walking home from class together and meeting up to eat pizza and study, "Lauren's quiz grades were tanking so I had to step in" (untrue). The first time they went out together, they spent hours laughing on the second level of Church Key making up hypothetical lives of people standing at the ground level bar. 6 years, 2 cities, 8 apartments, and infinite nights spent laughing and eating pizza together later, they're getting married!

It was a blizzard all day. Lauren had a birthday dinner with two of her best friends, Mary Kate and Sumi. Luckily, it stopped snowing right around five when Lauren met with Mary Kate to get their nails done before dinner. The entire time Lauren talked about how she thought Bill was proposing on her actual birthday, two days away. They finished and walked along the river walk downtown Chicago to meet with Sumi when they turned a corner and Bill appeared. Clearly not putting things together, she asked if he was coming to dinner with them. Everyone laughed as Bill led Lauren away to pop the question. After, they went back to their apartment which Lauren's cousins had decorated with flowers and candles. They finished the night at one of their favorite neighborhood restaurants... a pizza place of course.