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July 13, 2019
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Sally & Michael

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Michael LaGrone

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Sally Bell

July 13, 2019

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Welcome!

We're getting married! Welcome to our wedding website; we can’t wait to celebrate our special day with you. We’ve created this website as a convenient and interactive way to share all of the important details with you in the lead up to our wedding. You can also read more about our love story, get to know our bridal party, and check out our registry information too. So have fun, take a look around, and don’t forget to RSVP! Finally – thank you for your ongoing love and support. We are so excited to share this day with you and look forward to creating new favorite memories with all of our favorite people!

How We Met

Her version: My first distinct memory of Michael is that he stole my seat on the second or third day that we knew each other. We had both arrived to OKC to start our new jobs through Teach for America and had been placed in the same small group for training. Our first picture is of me giving him a side eye glance, and he reminds me of this often. His version: This girl sat next to me at Teach for America Induction and basically didn't talk for the first couple days, save a side eye or two. At some point though we did share a few words, and ended up riding together to CVS where we realized that we shared a similar taste in music. It would take us a little while to really become friends, but I knew then that Sally was a pretty cool person.

How We Became Friends and Then Friends Who Liked Each Other

Her Version: Teach for America Institute in Tulsa was a summer full of dorm living, less than stellar college dining hall food, stressful days learning how to teach, and nights that I began to spend on the floor in the hallway lesson planning and then watching The Office with Michael. I gave him rides to church in my car because he had just totaled his and we spent most all of our free time together once we were a couple of weeks into institute. We ended the summer with me asking, "do I ever get to kiss you?" and us deciding after a not-date to the Philbrook Museum that while the summer camp crush felt very real, we would wait until we started teaching back in Oklahoma City for us to actually commit to a relationship. His version: In the worst possible timing, I totaled my car trying to drive from OKC to Tulsa a week after moving out here. I spent the first week in Tulsa trying to find a ride to church before realizing that Sally was also looking for a church to go to that summer. We started riding to church together, and while people there may have thought we were married, we were really just friends. That friendship led to lots of texting, watching The Office, and eating Taco Bell throughout the summer. I knew she was definitely something special then, and was excited to see where things went when we returned to OKC.

How We Fell in Love

Her version: Soon after beginning teaching in OKC, we started dating. We had spent time together every night and it was clear that it was more than a summer crush. Our first years of teaching were incredibly difficult, but we leaned on each other through all of it. He first told me that he loved me the night before we each left to go home for Christmas break - four months after we began dating. We met each other's families, took trips to New Mexico, Georgia and New York, frequented Big Truck Tacos, drank plenty of coffee, and watched far too much Netflix. His version: Telling Sally I loved her for the first time was terrifying and probably (definitely) took me longer than it should have. Anyone who was willing to put up with me as often as she was, eat as many tacos and pizza as she did, stay up late and talk and laugh and be real like she did, was a person I loved; Sally proved to be that time and time again. It has been wonderful eating all the food OKC has to offer, watching all the shows on Netflix (or mostly just the Office and Parks and Rec), and just generally falling in love over the last year and change.

How He Asked

Her version: Michael took me on a trip to Tulsa and we did several of the same things the summer that we first met. We ate Hideaway Pizza which is the first restaurant that just the two of us went to, and then got ice cream from a shop that we had been to a few times. He didn't plan for it, but there was a puppy adoption happening right outside! I joked that he had really planned the whole day just for us to get a puppy, but we didn't. Then we went to the Philbrook Museum of Art which is where our first unofficial date took place. After walking around the museum, we went outside to the gardens which is where Michael asked me to marry him! It was the perfect day, and I was overjoyed to say yes. His version: I thought through most everything for the proposal. I found a ring I was pretty sure she would love. I took her to Tulsa, to the city where we got to know each other, to the Philbrook, where we spent our first sort of date. I even thought through a lunch place where we had been before, and lots of other little things. What I hadn’t really thought of was who could take our picture. So, I ended up just asking a random guy that was there to take one for us; I think he was a little surprised when I got down on one knee. Despite this, Sally said yes! It was really perfect, I cannot wait to marry her.

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