Happily Ever After

Thank you for visiting our wedding website! You should be able to find anything you want or need to know about our upcoming celebration on here. I'm actually TERRIBLE at getting items in the mail, so if it were up to me to get save-the-dates and invites in the mail, nobody would even know ahead of time this wedding was happening! Designing this website has allowed us to provide more information to you immediately, and also lets us interact with you more than just throwing a piece of paper in the mail. Read below to see the stories on how Chris and I met and how he proposed, and click through the menu to find the schedule of events, important parties involved in the planning and ceremony, some featured photos, and a place for you to leave your RSVP, among other things. Enjoy!

We met at work. I was working midnight shift doing quality control. Chris got hired there in October of 2012, but he started on day shift. We didn't meet until he was moved to midnight shift in January of 2013. He was a dedicated hard worker and I could always count on him to get everything done the right way. That September I was moving into a new apartment and I needed the help of someone with a truck. Out of 4 or 5 guys at work who offered their assistance, Chris was the only one who came through for me. We became fast friends, sharing evenings watching Dr. Who and eating tasty suppers I had an excuse to start making again. We've been pretty much inseparable since then.

We had taken Chris' kids Garrett and Alex, and my sister Anna, to Saint Louis for an epic fun-filled weekend for Labor Day. We were checking items off Chris' 40th birthday bucket list. We managed to cram the following activities into one weekend: Soulard Farmer's Market, Fitz's Restaurant, Highway 61 Road House, Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, Gateway Arch (tour to the top), apple picking at Eckert's Orchard, National Great Rivers Museum, Lewis and Clark State Historic Site, dim sum lunch at LuLu's, and bought Calvin and Hobbes comics in a used bookstore before heading back toward home down IL-3 just in time to catch the sunset at Inspiration Point, at LaRue-Pine Hills near Wolf Lake, IL. I took some incredible photos of the view and the kids as we waited for the sun to set. As we were leaving, Chris called the kids back from the trail because he said he had something to say. He got on one knee and proposed to me in the light of the sunset. It was magical.