Just over five years ago, Rachael and Nisar met at O'Hare on their way to volunteer at the Pine Ridge Reservation. Both will tell you it was fate that they ended up sitting next to each other on the flight where they spent two hours getting to know each other. After a week of volunteering (which consisted of romantic activities such as weeding dirt patches, skirting trailers, and building ramps), they had already become close friends. Fast forward to today, and Nisar and Rachael both still remember seeing each other at O'Hare for the first time, that first flight together, and staying up late getting to know each other under the incredible starry skies of South Dakota.

Nisar had been planning the proposal for quite some time, but had to wait until the perfect moment when both families could be there for the big question. Under the pretext of taking a family photo together, everyone went to a beautiful park. A few minutes in, Rachael turned around and there Nisar was on one knee. Everyone was there to celebrate together and after lots of happy tears, hugs, and kisses the family all went out for lunch to celebrate and forgot to take a family photo together.