Wedding Day

Wedding

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Our Wedding

We met at work of all places. I was new to Alaska and on the night we met it was my first night alone as a nurse. And of all nights it was Halloween 2017. It was the beginning of the shift during medication pass and I needed help turning a patient but to my dismay I couldn’t find my assigned tech. I stood outside the room for minutes until Tyler came walking down the hallway. I yelled, “hey you!” He stopped and pointed at himself, I yelled back, “yeah you, I need you,” and turned around walking back into the room. Tyler walked in with a smile and was willing to help even when I clearly yelled at him. The best part was I had no clue who he was and had to read his name on his badge to introduce him. After he helped, he wished my patient to get well and walked out. As he was my patient told me, “you are a strong independent woman, you don’t need a man to help you.” I laughed and told them I was single. After that I decided to sit next to him and chart for the rest of the night. We bonded very quickly talking about movies, Kingdom Hearts, my new move, and about my upcoming birthday in which I had no plans. Tyler volunteered to do something with me telling me about Seward, AK. By the end of shift, I gave him my number so we could hang out outside of work. The first thing he texted me was “be careful, there is a lot of fog.” My sarcastic self texted back, “I am from Washington, I am used to this.” He then asked me out hours later after that text on November 1st, 2017, but I friend zoned which only lasted for a few more hours. We went out to Spenard Roadhouse and our date ended up back at my apartment with Dairy Queen Blizzards watching Ink Master and talking about everything. We knew right there on my couch that this was it in the dating world for us and that he broke out of the friend zone. November 5th, Tyler admitted he was in love with me. On November 12th, 2017, Tyler took me downtown Anchorage under all the trees that had Christmas lights and covered in snow in Town Square to ask me to be his girlfriend officially even though we knew we were already a couple days ago. That’s the day I admitted I fell in love. The rest was history.

Friend Zoned To Fiance

Working night shift, it is hard to do things with our friends unless it is brunch. After a four day week, our friends Brianna and Robert wanted to do a hike while all of us were off before 2019 started. We realized the only day was December 27th, however, this was my only day off for another four day week. Brianna was also explaining she wants to get a new camera and wanted me to teach her what Bailey (one of my bridesmaids) taught me. The 27th came and I had an appointment before the hike. Tyler was super excited and nervous for some reason that I couldn’t figure out why. I was just exhausted and cranky. I was trying to talk him out of the hike, but he was persistent and offered to get me coffee and a bagel. As we were driving out to Eagle River, Tyler kept asking me if I thought it was beautiful and what I thought about the snow on mountains and trees. I kept telling him it was and what setting I was planning to do with my camera. We got there and of course Brianna and Robert are late. It was freezing and I was complaining how tired I was. Tyler was texting Brianna seeing how far out they were. After 10 minutes, they arrived and we started our hike at Eagle River Nature Center. We ran into a couple that was doing their engagement shoot and I can tell Tyler was nervous, but Brianna was distracting me with camera questions. We got to this deck that went out onto the creek with mountain ranges. I was taking pictures of Brianna telling her what setting I was doing and how I was working with the lighting. Brianna wanted to try and took my camera asking Tyler and I to get in because we owe her photos for our Christmas gift she gave us because we gave her just selfies. I can tell Tyler was even more nervous. We were looking out and Tyler told me “look over there!” I told him in a very monotone voice, “it is a f***ing tree.” “It is a moose! Look,” Tyler explained. With the same tone I told him, “it is a f***ing evergreen tree.” Tyler told me to hold on and he will get his phone which was on a bench. I was so fixated on proving to him I was right and being tired I kept repeating “it is a f***ing evergreen tree!” Our friend Robert blurted out, “ oh Alyssa shut up and turn around.” I turned around and there was Tyler on one knee in the snow shaking and with a nervous voice he asked, “I had this speech planned but I am too nervous. Will you marry me?” Of course I said yes. Brianna and Robert were taking photos the whole time and took some afterwards while popping a bottle of blue champagne in the woods. After we were done we headed back to the car and the best part was Tyler said in a more nervous voice than the proposal, “so how do we tell your parents?” I laughed and stated, “we have a lot of FaceTime conversations ahead of us.”

12/27/2018

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Where is Woodland, WA?

Woodland, WA is a 33 minute drive north of Portland International Airport (PDX). Alyssa was born and raised in Vancouver, WA which is a hop over the river from Portland, OR.So fly into Portland, OR (PDX) NOT&nbsp;Seattle, WA (Sea-Tac) or else you will be driving an extra 3 hours...

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Anndres

Sidney

Alberto

Bailey

Dakota

Felix

Kate

Emily

Robert

Amanda

Daniel

Moses

Sarah

Wedding Party

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Registry

Q + A

You must call the hotel not book online and use our Room Block Code. There are only 10 rooms available for those coming from afar. If rooms run out, you can always ask them for the same rate or call Tyler or I so we can contact the hotel. These suites come with 1 King Bed and a full size sofa bed in another room with a kitchen. If you want to save money and know someone else that's coming we recommend sharing the room. Plus there is a pool here! If they don't give you the rate for some reason, please call Alyssa or Tyler and we can call the hotel for you.

Homewood Suites by Hilton Vancouver-Portland

Alaskans! There will be traffic and not the 2-3 light miss traffic. It is like 1-2 hours! Going into Portland from Vancouver there is traffic from 6:30AM-8:30AM (weekdays) along with 6PM especially on weekends for the last time. Now going from Portland into Vancouver the biggest traffic time is 3:00PM-7:00PM. You have been warned. Washington and Oregon family and friends, you already know about it of course.

Portland & Vancouver Driving

Travel

There are lots of new restaurants and things to do. We highly recommend checking out some places out including Twigs, Compass Coffee and others.

Downtown Vancouver

Anchorage friends and family, see a bigger zoo while in town! You can get your steps in easily and this zoo is still growing. Head out towards Beaverton and get there early for good parking. 

Oregon Zoo

Tyler and Alyssa love going out to Hillsboro with in town friends to just watch Alyssa blow the competition with her golf skills. Can be a little pricey but it is worth the laughs and see the competitive sides come out!

Top Golf

This is where Alyssa used to live for nursing school. There are tons of restaurants including 4 McMenamins (we both recommend getting the McMenamins Passport which is a fun scavenger hunt). There are some boutiques, Barista Coffee Shop and a cute tea shop! There is the famous Salt and Straw and more new restaurants opening. Just park in the neighborhoods to save on parking.

Alyssa & Tyler

Alyssa & Tyler

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