It was a warm August day and celebrations were under way for a picturesque wedding. Two people met on the dance floor . . . and little did they know that eleven months later they would be engaged.

Living five hours apart, things began slow. A phone call a week led to a date once a month. Then with a poem Ben asked Catherine to be his girlfriend. After a few more months, Catherine decided to move to Nebraska, which shortened the distance to a 20-minute drive!

It was a warm July day and Ben gave Catherine instructions: be ready at 10am with a bike, a Bible, and nice, but not too nice, clothes (because of the biking). A fun-filled day concluded on a dock at American Heroes Park in Bellevue, NE, where Ben read another poem:

Catherine, I love you

I want to be the one who

Is with you for all time

Even if life isn't sublime

Whether fighting mighty foes

or changing babies clothes

I will always hold your hand

I will always with you stand

I am not a perfect man

But this is God's perfect plan

With no one else would I rather be

Catherine Gimino, Will you marry me?

. . . And Catherine said yes.