Even though we were practically neighbors (unknowingly) during our final year of undergrad at the University of Michigan, we first met on the other side of the country during a hike in the Washington Cascade mountains. After spending the summer together hiking, camping, and exploring the Pacific Northwest, we finished our graduate degrees together back at Michigan before finding our way out to Seattle again where we have been living for the last few years!

After spending the day skiing with friends at Crystal Mountain, we attended our traditional year-end dinner where we reflect back on the year before heading back home for Christmas and New Years. It was soon after that a surprise trip up the Smith Tower in Seattle's Pioneer Square that #JessSecYes.

Set in the foothills of the Cascade mountains and surrounded by clear blue lakes and rushing rivers is a small Old-World Bavarian town called Leavenworth. It is minutes away from all things outdoors and was the perfect place for us to get married surrounded by our family. A year has passed and we cannot wait to celebrate our one-year anniversary with all of our closest friends and family!