It's finally happening!

Blake and Meri met in middle school, but didn't think much of each other until July 5th, 2014 when Meri decided on a whim to send a friendly Facebook message to the cute varsity football quarterback. He was slow on the uptake, but her persistence, kindness, and wicked hilarious jokes eventually won him over. After several years together (About a third of which was long-distance), Blake proposed to Meri on her favorite beach on the Oregon coast, four years to the day from when she first sent him that fateful Facebook message.