Where do I even start?! From what I can remember and what I was told, I caught Brandon's eye when he saw me on TV doing an appearance for MVC, promoting a game or something. He went to high school with one of my teammates, Kali, so he reached out to her to see what I was all about.

The funny part about that was, Kali and I were actually up in Duluth for an appearance and when we pulled up, she checked her phone and saw a message from Brandon asking about me. She responded with snapping photo of me in that moment with "this Brooklyn?!" HAHA I creeped on his Facebook, thought he was cute, but just blew it off. I remember the appearance being for Grandma's Marathon/all of the races that happen then, so I want to say this was in the summer of 2015.

After that, behind the scenes, Brandon was scheming to get a group together to go to Dave & Buster's or something for an outing that just so happened to include me.

Months passed and that get together never came to fruition. Brandon's became impatient and in my mind he said "f it" and sent me a message on Facebook on January 20, 2016:

Hey Brooklyn, a little different over Facebook but I'm the guy Kali has mentioned. She says you're pretty sarcastic, I might give you a run for your money. Anyway, wanted to say hey and hope we meet up sometime

To which I respond:

Hi! too funny! we'll see about that! yeah definitely!

We exchanged a few more messages and phone numbers and ultimately set up a date to meet up at the Mall of America and go mini golfing that weekend. I was scheduled for my knee surgery to repair my meniscus the following Monday, so if that's what he wanted to do, we needed to make it happen. HOWEVER, the weekend came around and I was anxious beyond belief. I never really dateedddd like this so I didn't know what to expect. Everyone I knew and had ever seen was built into school, or classes, or my sorority outings. I kept trying to talk myself out of it and my roommate at the time just told me to shut up and go. "The worst thing that happens is you have a miserable round of golf, you come home and we go out" HAH

Well, I went and he was late and I thought about just saying screw it and turn around. BUT, he was helping his mom, so how could I stand him up???

We went on this mini-golfing date, then sat in the middle of "Nickelodeon Universe" (we all know it's Camp Snoopy) for hours just talking about life. I remember going back to my sorority house telling EVERYONE I was going to marry this guy and then... The rest is history!

Since then, 6 years later, we've been through long distance, all the baseball trips, dozens of Vikings games, apartments, to our home, our pup, Annie, and more.

When it came time for him to propose, I honestly never knew when it would happen. We had talked about it for years, but I couldn't have guessed when or how it would come to fruition. On December 5th, 2020, we had planned to go get our Christmas tree. It was the first year in our new home and I was SO excited to get a real tree. It was a tradition with my dad growing up, so now not being in an apartment, we had the opportunity and I was making it happen!

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am very go-with-the-flow, especially when there's no real time frame. That morning, started weird when I woke up to the garage door opening and Brandon coming home after leaving without talking to me... I got up and walked past his office where he was nicely dressed, which was just weird for the moment. I was sitting on the couch, drinking my coffee, when he came down the stairs with his hair spiked, telling me to go get ready... Again, just weird for the morning... He was up to something. As I reluctantly agreed, I walked up the stairs to which he yelled "wear jeans or something". It was then I KNEW he was up to something, but could it be a proposal??? I was text bombing my friend Kara and it was hilarious. I even make a tik tok with my chain of thoughts.

Without dragging this on even more, the car ride was SILENT on the way to the tree farm, again, weird. As we were walking through the forest, he grabbed my hand, again, weird for us, and started his little speech, which I don't remember much of and asked me to spend forever with him.

I am so thankful for our journey that has lead us to this moment, and I cannot wait to get married and begin this next chapter of our lives together!

B&B

Wedding Day