Afterwards, guests hit up The Midland for another cocktail hour, which included live music, a magician, a caricaturist, and a cigar roller. They were escorted into the ceremony, where they set around us and watched us say our handwritten vows on a rotating stage. Guests arrived and were greeted with a red carpet, passed champagne, canapés, and a live band. We kept the same consistency throughout…everything was symbolic, yet tied together beautifully. My engagement ring is in a 1920’s vintage setting and the first placed we lived together was Hollywood, so we went with an Old Hollywood Glam theme. We met on a stage, so we stood on a stage to say our vows. We met in a theatre, so we wanted to get married in a theatre. We knew we wanted our wedding to be the biggest and baddest event. and put on around 200 events a year around the country. After reflecting on the moment, we laughed together, cried together, and finally, Ryan got down on one knee and asked me if we could spend their lives together. I opened the box…and there among the fish guts and hooks, was my pink, dream engagement ring. I went to the tackle box, rolling my eyes the whole way. Finally, he stopped the boat, cast a line into the water and asked me to go to the tackle box and get him a weight. Ryan knew exactly what I was pouting about and had planned to get me to my weakest point in an effort to completely throw me off. I reluctantly agreed and sat on the front of the boat with my arms crossed the whole ride. On the last morning before we headed home, Ryan suggested to take the boat out for a little morning fishing. On the last weekend of the summer, Ryan suggested we go to the Lake of the Ozarks and take the boat out. Together, for the past nine years, we have built our version of “A Wonderful Life!”Īfter eight years together, we decided to get serious about getting married. As he tells it, “Breanne scared me to death.” As she tells it, “It was the best date ever and I knew that was the person I was going to marry.” Flash forward to a few years later, timing worked out and we both ended up in Los Angeles at the same time. Finally, during college, the truth came out that we had been crushing on each other all these years and wanted to go out on a date when we returned home for Christmas Break. We were each other’s first real crushes yet neither of us knew that there were feelings further than friendship. We had been cast in the Christmas Production of, “It’s a Wonderful Life”.

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