We met on a dating app, hinge… not very romantic, we know. It worked out for us! Our first date was sushi and a movie at the drive in. Don’t ask what the movie was about, we talked the whole way through. We had already planned our second date before the night was done.
I asked Cooper to marry me at home while he was on lunch break. I was planning on asking him after a night out recreating our first date later that day, but I was too excited to wait. I got off early from work and bought a miniature bottle of champagne at Kroger on the way home. Immediately after getting home I told him that I had a gift to give him and gave him a scrapbook I had been working on in secret. In it is a collection of all of our important dates and trips from the day we met to the day we became fiancés! He said yes and we took the rest of the day to celebrate.
I had a weekend planned for the day AFTER Tara proposed in hocking hills, but she beat me to the punch! Of course, we were both already pretty sure what the other one was planning, so there were no hard feelings. Actually, it took a bit of the pressure off! We drove down to Hocking Hills together on Saturday morning, and as we were getting out of the car, immediately ran into my cousins Tara and Mark Jones (completely unplanned)! We decided to do the first hike together, found a scenic spot, and Tara Jones asked to take some photos of us. Honestly, she couldn’t have teed me up better. I proposed, and both Tara Jones and a photographer who happened to be there took some great pictures, some of which you’ll see on the website. We hiked a little more together, then went our separate ways, and I took my now fiancé to a lovely seven course dinner at a Scottish-style inn, and then back to a cozy little treehouse cabin where we spent the night. We did a little more hiking in the morning before coming home from a perfect weekend.
We knew that we wanted a private ceremony, so we figured why wait! We went to the court house on Christmas Eve, but the minister was out of town unexpectedly. We thankfully found a woman who was ordained that was willing to open up her chapel for the day to marry us and all the other couples who were planning on going to the courthouse.