Wedding Day

Black Diamond Gardens

Ceremony

Reception

Our Wedding

On a particulary fated day in January 2017, Ryan and Demi were swiping on the dating app, Bumble. They stumbled across each other's profile and both swiped right. It was a match! They begin the conversation by sharing photos of their dogs, Kona and Bentley. They planned to meet, but Ryan regretfully informed Demi that he would be moving to California and starting a job at Haas Automation the following week. Demi decided to meet up with him anyways, but told her friends that she thought nothing would come of it, and hoped they wouldn't hit it off. They of course, hit it off. For their first date, they met for a beer at Brouwer's in Fremont and took a walk at Golden Gardens. After Ryan moved down to California, they really got to know each other through hours and hours of phone calls on public transportation, Facetime dates, snapchat updates, and goodnight/good morning texts. After 3 months of virtual communication, Demi decided to take a leap of faith and travel down to Culver City, California to spend the weekend together. They explored the beach, went to a Mariners game at Angels Stadium for fireworks night (which is super lame compared to the Seattle Mariners fireworks show btw ;) ), and got their favorite tacos from Loqui. Demi and Ryan continued to book flights back and forth between Washington and California, before he finally asked Demi to be his girlfriend on November 5th, 2017. It took a while before they decided to make it official (although Demi already knew he was the one very early on :) ), because Ryan wasn't sure he would ever move back to Washington, and a future living in different states seemed so uncertain. But they both decided to trust that they would figure it out together. After a year and a half of long distance, Ryan got accepted into the Mechanical Engineering grad program at the University of Washington, and would be moving back to Seattle. The distance between them became much shorter, from Capitol Hill to Bellevue, until they moved into their first apartment together in Belltown the summer of 2020. Demi is currently working for Nordstrom as an Associate Designer for Kidswear and Ryan is pursuing his doctorate in Bioengineering at UW. They enjoy trying new restaurants together, watching The Office, and going on hiking/outdoors adventures all over the PNW. Ryan proposed on December 12th, 2021 on Shipwreck Beach in Kauai. He had a beautiful picnic set up, and walked Demi onto the beach and asked her to marry him. She of course, said yes, and he had a photographer waiting on the sidelines to do an engagement photoshoot! It was a magical day. Ryan and Demi are so excited to celebrate their love story with all of their wonderful family and friends!

Demi & Ryan

Demi & Ryan

D&R

Wedding Day

4:00 PM

Ceremony

5:15 PM

Reception