Our Story

May 2014. Sam has finished college at The University of Minnesota - Winona and Emily just finished her first year at The University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. We each had friends that wanted to create a bar league volleyball team at Nutbush City Limits. We both ended up joining the same team and quickly became good friends.

October 2015. Over the summer of 2015 we started to do more date-like activities. We went to concerts, boating on the river, to dinner, on hikes, and many more activities. However, we were both (mainly Sam) still in denial and considered each other just friends...Let's also point out that it was widely known that Emily was deeply enamored with Sam at this point....Anyways, we were hanging out one night and all of a sudden Sam leans over, says to Emily “I’ve been meaning to do this for a while” and then he kissed her.

Golf. Board Games. Rowe The Dog. Family. Sports. Travel. Jeep Rides.

September 2020. Sam set an early morning (practically sunrise!!) tee time at one of our favorite golf courses. Sam had brought some coffee (Emily’s favorite drink) and a black coffee mug that he had specially made. After we golfed, he wanted to finish our coffee over the water. As Sam started his speech, Emily started to tear up finally realizing what was happening, and Sam said “will you...look at the mug”....not what Emily was expecting! Looking at the mug, it had transformed into a white mug that said “will you marry me?” When Emily looked up Sam was on one knee.