We feel so blessed and grateful to have been able to be married with a small wedding ceremony on June 27th last year. We're thankful for friends and family who were able to witness the ceremony over Zoom and for all the well wishes near and far. We greatly missed seeing everyone in person and can't wait to be out of this stinkin' pandemic and celebrate this summer! With love, Kat & Mong

Kat and Mong met through their church, Harvest Church of Madison, when Kat started attending in the fall of 2014. On Sunday afternoons after church, some of the members would go to the park and play volleyball. That's where Kat met Mong for the first time, but she didn't remember him. ;) That winter, Kat started getting more involved with the church by joining a Family Group. It turned out, she was placed in the Family Group which Mong led. She felt bad because she'd come late every week (or not at all). A year and a half later, they served in the same Family Group over the summer of 2016. They were just friends. In 2017, their two dear friends got engaged and they were both in the wedding party. They started talking because of this and soon got to know each other quite well. After a few (5) months, Mong got the guts, ahem courage to ask Kat if they would pray over a relationship together, and they started dating on Oct 23, 2017. :)

Mong planned for the moment to happen on their trip to LA in April 2019. Kat loves hand written letters so Mong wrote her a letter, once a month in preparation for this occasion. He had the events planned out with letters and ring in luggage. On their second day in LA, they experienced the unfortunate event of having their rental car broken into. Mong was frantic about checking to see what had been taken. The only item lost was Kat’s backpack while their luggage remained untouched in the trunk, whew. This made him really uneasy about holding onto the ring until their last day in LA so he kept contemplating whether he should just give it to Kat and get it over with. In the end he decided to wait. The schedule was dinner, dessert, then head to a gazebo at sunset before asking “the question”. But like all stories, this didn’t go quite as planned. Dinner took longer than expected so the sun had already set. As they made their way to get dessert, it started raining. When they reached the gazebo, they discovered that it had an open roof and weren’t protected from the drizzle. And as Mong was reaching for the hand written notes to ask the big question, a police officer stopped them to ask what was going on. After finally squaring everything away with the officer, Mong took out all the letters that he had written to Kat over the course of their relationship to show to her again. The first letter of the first word in each note spelled out, “Kat, will you marry me?”