Lacy

and

Jordan

We cannot wait to see you on our wedding day

Our Story

The day before Thanksgiving, 2021, I was scrolling through Bumble for the umpteenth time and Jordan was thinking what he was going to make for his family's Thanksgiving Dinner. I matched with him, he got the notification, and our conversation started.

We talked for a little bit through the app and quickly exchanged phone numbers. One week later, we had our first date. I pulled an all-nighter at work on November 30, 2021, told him I was tired and needed some music to make it through another long day, and he curated the first of many playlists he would make me full of 2010’s alternative (freaking bangers) and we were both shocked that we had similiar taste in music - Ghostland Observatory, M83, The Black Keys, Purity Ring, Passion Pit, RJD2 and LCD Soundsystem. While both of our musical tastes go beyond the above, we were excited in what we had found.

Since then, we moved in together 8 months later, we have been on over 30 road trips, from a quick drive around town to a 3,000 mile road trip to Canada, 2,000 mile road trip through Washington and so many beautiful places in between. Our love for nature, mountains, simple things, and experiences makes our relationship rich with plans, spontaneous outings, and the occasional irrational trip to Jackpot, NV. In December 2022, we bought our first house together and are enjoying making it our home.

The proposal. Knowing someone so well to tell when they are “not being themselves” is a funny thing. When I have hard days, I ask to go on drives. It is how I get back to a good headspace and lucky for me, Jordan is no-question willing to take me wherever I want to go. I asked to go on a drive Tuesday, May 9th, 2023. I told him to surprise me with the destination – somewhere I had never been. As we were getting ready to leave the house, man he was being weird. He said it was because the commute home from work was stressful, but I wasn’t buying it. Little did I know, he was running through in his mind how he was going to propose to me that night. We decided to go to Olive Garden for dinner (Italian food is one of our favorites along with BBQ) and he said, “wouldn’t it be funny if I proposed right here?”. I always told him I didn’t care where he did it, it was the fact that he wanted me to be his wife and with everything he has been through, I would be ecstatic just knowing he sees that future with me (he didn’t propose in the Olive Garden by the way…). We took off on our drive and he revealed to me that we were going to Bruneau Sand Dunes. I had never been and was excited because I had always wanted to. We get to the park, go out on the lake, and nothing happens… what the hell? I for sure thought this was going to happen tonight. We walk back from the lake and go to another spot where there is no one around. Him knowing me so well, he knows I do not like attention and causing a scene in public. We walked, barefoot through the sand, to a picnic table on one of the dunes. We watched the sunset in each other’s arms cast pinks, oranges, and beautiful blues across the sky. He pulled away from me, got down on one knee, and asked me to marry him. I was anticipating this moment since we met, but cannot explain the amount of joy, love, and excitement I felt in that moment that this amazing man was going to be my husband for the rest of my life. I cried most of the way home and texted family and friends the incredible news.

Our love for each other is what we have both searched for our entire lives. We are in the most loving competition to see who can take care of each other the most and it is a regular mission to prove how much we mean to each other through thoughtful messages, dates, helping each other through hard days, and continuing to improve ourselves to be the best version we can for each other. His quick wit, humor, patience and kindness allows our love to flourish and we cannot imagine our lives without each other.

We found each other much later in life and we always say to each other, “better with you”. All of our life experiences separately are hard to distinguish that we didn’t do them together. While we are sad that we did not find each other sooner, we know the love we have for each other will make up for the many years we didn’t have together. “Better with you” is one of our songs and will be the song we will be having our first dance to as husband and wife, along with all of you, on our very special day.