We met on December 29, 2017. I (Sarah) was living in Las Vegas at the time and was home for Christmas. I decided to get on Tinder (a dating app). We matched and started talking that night. I flew back to Vegas on the 30th and we talked for days after that. I (Sarah) was getting nervous about doing a long-distance relationship and broke it off.. not once, or twice but 3 times! Ethan kept chasing after me and wow am I thankful for that! We officially met on January 18, went to On The Border and spent the weekend hanging out and getting to know each other. The rest has been history!
Ethan worked with my life-long best friend, Katlyn, to plan out a surprise girl's day and a double date that evening. Katlyn and I went to Starbucks, went and got our nails done and did some shopping. After that, we went to the same On The Border where we had our first date. Halfway through dinner, things started to click and I got super nervous! After dinner, we went to Illuminations at Botanica in Wichita. Illuminations is a beautiful walk through Christmas light display. We walked the entire thing 3 times. After the 3rd time, I told Ethan I was getting cold and was trying to hint that I was ready to go. He said, "Let's go look at those Christmas trees again!". We went back to the display of the 3 Christmas trees (that we had looked at 3 other times). The trees were lit up beautifully and were floating on a frozen lake. Leading out to the pond there was a bridge with paper lanterns surrounding the ledge. We stood there and he turned and looked at me taking both my hands and said, "You know I love you so much, I couldn't imagine being here or anywhere with anyone else." I swear I blacked out for a minute as I said, "What are you doing?" He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! I said "are you sure!?" and followed it up with a quick "YES!" He planned the perfect day, perfect proposal and incorporated everything I could have ever dreamed and more.