Big Announcement: We’re Engaged!
This past week, I spent Spring Break in Colorado Springs with my college ministry. Little did I know, I would be returning a fiancé. Before I share more about our story and how he popped the big question, I want to share a new series on Aisle to Altar. This is the first post in a new series that will cover my own wedding planning journey. While this will be my own personal account of planning my wedding, this series will be filled with helpful tips to help you make the big decisions when planning your own wedding. From picking a date and venue to finalizing RSVPs, this series will cover it all. Each month I will cover the decisions and steps I made. The following posts will go into more depth about how I made those decisions and how you can make them too.
Photography by Lisa Joy Photography.
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Now back to your regularly scheduled program: A proposal story. Nick and I met way back in Jr. High School where we were both in the Ramay Junior High Band and Student Council. We were always hanging out in the same friend group and were both big flirts. Throughout our friendship, we each had crushes on one another, but never at the same time. We remained friends all through school, dated other people, and graduated. After high school, we parted ways. While both of us were pursuing Music Education degrees, I moved to Springfield, Missouri and attended Missouri State University, and Nick remained in Fayetteville at the University of Arkansas.
After 2 years, we reconnecting when I moved back to NWA. We began hanging out with mutual friends and caught up on everything we’d missed. Eventually, Nick asked me out to watch one of his friend's band play downtown. This was the beginning of several adventures including an overnight float trip on the Buffalo River, binge watching New Girl, and eventually, our first official date.
Unfortunately for us, Nick left for Drum Corps for six weeks the day after our first date. We called each other almost every day and were eager to go on a second date. Thanks to Nick’s persistent persuasion, I impulsively joined the Razorback Marching Band and kept it a surprise till he returned from Drum Corps. After surviving early week, we decided we were serious about each other and decided to start dating over our favorite, mint chocolate chip ice-cream.
As a wedding planner, we talked about weddings a lot, and it was clear that’s where our relationship was headed. While on a Spring Break trip we went on with their college ministry, Nick got down on one knee at the Garden of the Gods and asked me to marry him. Lucky for him, I said yes!
Nick coordinated the proposal with the leaders of our college ministry as they planned the trip itinerary. I had a feeling that he was going to propose at Garden of the Gods. When we originally went on Wednesday and he didn’t get down on one knee, I thought I had read all the signals wrong. But later that night they announced we would be returning to Garden of the Gods on Thursday if a group of us wanted to go back. When we arrived, Nick and I walked down a trail where he popped the question and Lisa Joy Photography was there to capture it all.
Come back next week to see how our first week as a newly engaged couple and what my first steps are to start planning our wedding. Subscribe below to get weekly updates on Mondays so you don’t miss any more content from this new blog series.
Cheers,
