It WILL happen...we promise!

It is with heavy hearts that we have decided to postpone our wedding due to the outbreak of coronavirus. We wish to celebrate this time with our friends and family but we also understand the risks associated with this virus. We hope that you all can join us this next year or possibly in 2022, in a celebration that has been a long time coming. 12 years this past March! Can you believe it?!

I just graduated with my Master’s degree and I was somewhere between excited and scared out of my mind for the future. I decided to try and mark something off the bucket list before beginning adult life: The Grand Canyon. Heck yeah, Why not? After waking up at 2 A.M., flying for 3-4 hours, and then driving for 4+ hours; we finally made it! I was exhausted but the adrenaline of arriving was making me jumpy and I couldn’t wait to get out of the car. I decided to begin by taking pictures to document the beauty of this place (although pictures may never do it justice!). As I was looking around me I couldn’t help but think of the person standing next to me; holding my hand. Sam was the one person I wanted to share this experience with the most. I looked up at him to see his reaction to the views and couldn’t help but think about how happy I was to be here with him. My best friend. I could hear a buzz in my ear and contributed it to my nerves. I was at the freaking GRAND CANYON. We walked hand in hand to several outlook spots and all the while Sam kept telling me how much he loved me and how happy he was to be in this place with me. I was taken in by the view ahead of me and his sweet words but I honestly was so overwhelmed by the sights, I was completely taken off-guard with what happened next. All of the sudden, he knelt in front of me and held out the ring of my dreams. “Will you marry me?” He said with shaky hands. I melted. Laughed. Cried. Turned bright red. It was a question 10 years in the making. Something my subconscience knew would happen the moment I met him in Home Ec. Class. I thought I was here for the views but I gained so much more. I gained a forever companion and committed to something we somehow knew was meant just for us. He was always the one; but this sealed the deal. There are days when I can’t stand him; then there are days when I’m just so unbelievably happy he chose me. I said yes. - Love Lindsey

I don’t remember when exactly it happened, probably in high school sometime, but Lindsey showed me this beautiful ring that she found on Etsy. That day something just clicked and I knew I would put that ring on her finger one day. I made a mental note of the jeweler and I was never going to forget it. Fast forward through the years of our shared experiences, our time spent growing together, growing more and more in love and I finally got the nerve to take action. I didn’t know exactly how I wanted to do it, but I knew which ring I was going to get. With a little digging I found the ring she pointed out all those years ago and contacted the maker. From there I just needed to figure out the perfect moment. We had been thinking about taking a trip in the spring of 2018, so I just had to do a little planning to make everything fall into place. The day finally came, I was so nervous, I slipped the ring box into my carry-on just before we left. But how do I keep that hidden?! What if she finds it! I wrapped it up in a pair of pants and hoped for the best. Once we got through security and to our gate I was still freaking out, I would feel better with the ring in my pocket. So I asked Lindsey if she needed to use the restroom, and while she was gone I quickly made my switch. We settled into the flight, ring safely at the end of my fingertips. The rest of the day was a blur of nervousness and anxiousness, she had no idea! Finally, we make it to the national park. I’m bursting with excitement, for both grandness of the canyon, and the thoughts of what I’m about to do. We get to one of the lookout points, I can barely remember the view from that moment because I was so swept away with the awe in Lindsey’s eyes. There is no one I would want to share that moment with more than that beautiful, crazy, and loving woman. And so on one knee I asked her to spend the rest of her life with me. -Love Sam