Wedding Day

Holiday Inn Sioux Falls-City Centre

Reception

St Mary Parish

Ceremony

Social Hour

Dinner and Dancing

Our Wedding

Our story began back in July of 2018, the summer before our sophomore years of high school. We were eagerly introduced to each other by our friends Grace Bauder and Mason Rozeboom, who insisted that we’d hit it off. After lots of texting and some successful dates, we decided to officially call each other “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” in September of 2018. Since then, we have grown together through adolescence and early adulthood, sports seasons and job changes, busy semesters and bustling summers, family growth and difficult loss, lifestyle shifts and necessary transitions, and countless events in between. We were engaged on May 24, 2025 after a surprise picnic lunch date and can’t wait to be married on July 31, 2026!

Lucas and Ellie

Our Story

Photos

Lydia Whalen

Zac Mousel

Erica Whalen

AJ Whalen

Alexis Severson

Dylan Whalen

Jenna Mousel

Mason Rozeboom

Grace Bauder

Casey Pick

Amber Block

Eli Niemeyer

Abbi Nelson

Dawson Vonk

Clare Davison

Colton Vonk

Jacob Kramer

Wedding Party

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41 Sites to Buy Wedding Guest Dresses

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Dress Code

Q + A

A block of rooms at the Holiday Inn is reserved for our guests. You may book your room in our block through this website link or you may call the Holiday Inn and reference the "Whalen/Mousel Wedding" or the group code "WM6". If you are told the block is full, please let Lucas or Elena know as soon as possible, so we can add more rooms to the block.

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Travel

Things to Do

Registry

Elena & Lucas

Elena & Lucas

Wedding Party