Things have changed over the years with how a lot of couples meet and our story follows what has become a commonplace way to meet: via a dating app. In May of 2021 we started talking and first met about a month later as Casey was going on a three week trip to the UP. After our first date at Perrin Brewing, we continued seeing each other and our relationship kept progressing forward sharing weekends between Saint Joseph and Grand Rapids for a little shy of two years. We took our first big trip together on a week ski trip to the UP in 2022 (which was amazing, great snow and watching a ridiculous dating show on Netlfix for our evening entertainment!), and the next winter in 2023 we took a week trip to New England to ski more, eat amazing lobster rolls in Portland and have some delicious New England craft beer!! The vacations were perhaps a little too ski focused as hard as it may be for Casey to admit, so the next big one was to be not skiing--->direction Europe! In March of 2023, Casey moved to Grand Rapids as we both knew how we wanted to see our lives progress together. Fast forward a little over a year from there and in August of 2024, Casey proposed to Lauren while camping in Grayling! As we came to find out, the campground, while lovely, is located right near the tank and artillery range for Camp Grayling. So the soundtrack of our engagement weekend was to be that of cannon fire, with a little small arms fire mixed in to keep things fresh. There was nothing to do about it apart from laugh and make light of how close it was to our campsite (which included Lauren making Matrix-like dodging movements as the tanks were firing repeatedly). Since our engagement, we have kept very busy and were lucky enough to go to Europe in late September and early October to Prague, Munich and Wroclaw, Poland for a friend's wedding (see gallery for a few photos). Since then, we've gone into full wedding planning mode (with some biking, hunting, baking and yardwork mixed in) and cannot wait to celebrate with you all!