St. John Neumann Catholic Church

Wedding Day

Wedding

Ma Maison

Reception

Our Wedding

We met in the summer of 2014 at Camp Hidden Lake. I was excited to spend a second summer at Life Teen Summer Camps doing behind the scenes work as the office intern. Austin showed up to camp not sure what he was going to spend the summer doing (thank you Ms. Lisa!). We spent the majority of our time that summer with different people&hellip;Austin will say I ignored him. But, by the time camp was coming to an end we both had plans to continue working for Life Teen afterwards. That gave us a common thread that began a deeper friendship between us.&nbsp;



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Throughout the next year and a half, we continued our friendship with phone calls here and there, texts and video messages - like the one-time Austin almost crushed a building at Covecrest cutting down a tree, and after work hangouts once I moved to Georgia. Overtime I realized that my feelings for Austin were deeper than those that I had for any of my other guy friends. This led to me agreeing to take care of Austin’s dog when he moved back to Nebraska in 2016. Bandit quickly brought an end to any romantic feelings that I may have had for him, however (editor’s note: Bandit may not have been cut out to be a camp dog, but he is doing well and living life to the fullest on a farm in Ohio).









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After our failed attempt at co-parenting a dog we both turned our focus to the people and communities around us in Georgia and the Midwest. A year and a half later began a series of weddings of some of our best friends that brought us together again and again. The first wedding included&nbsp;a now&nbsp;infamous conversation that I took as us shutting the door on any future relationship and that Austin took as us opening the door into the future&hellip;classic. He spent a lot of the next summer reaching out often and I spent most of the summer ignoring said calls and texts. In the fall our paths crossed again in Texas for my bestfriend’s wedding and a weekend at my family cabin in Wimberley with all our friends. That weekend Austin shared with me his feelings and intentions to pursue me, which he did very intentionally over the next couple months. Lots of car phone calls, an Atlanta snow storm and a very garlicky potato soup (note: black pepper and black garlic powder look really similar if you’re nervous on a first date), facetime dates, more flights and travel stress, fun&nbsp;family vacations,&nbsp;and a cross country move later I said yes to forever!&nbsp;

We met at summer camp. She crushed on me, I didn't notice. By the time I did, she hated me. Took me&nbsp;months, but I convinced her to date me. Took me a year, but now we're here.&nbsp;

Austin's TLDR

Our Story

Details

Photos

Katie Rooney

Zach Wietfeld

Lauren Ross

Jay Yosten

Melissa Ross

Riley Simonsen

Miranda Kreikemeier

Nathan Kreikemeier

Alyssa Hatten

Austin O'Connor

Katie Burger

DJ Starzec

Wedding Party

Registry

Q + A

For your convenience, a&nbsp;block of rooms has been reserved for August 30th and 31st.&nbsp;Please ask for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Ross-Kreikemeier Wedding Room Block.&nbsp;Group Rate Cutoff Date: July 26, 2019

Hotel Granduca Austin

Complimentary transportation is available from Hotel Granduca to Ma Maison.

Reception Departure Time: 4:00 p.m.











Transportation will take guests back to Hotel Granduca with a&nbsp;departure time&nbsp;of&nbsp;10:45&nbsp;p.m.











All guests are welcome to use this service, regardless of weekend&nbsp;accommodations.

Shuttle Service

Travel

Things to Do

The Proposal

Christie + Austin

Christie + Austin

Photos