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Emily & Alexander

June 28–30, 2025 • Coram, MT
65 Days To Go!

RSVPs are Due Saturday, April 19th 2025! Click the RSVP tab below to fill it out!

Emily & Alexander

June 28–30, 2025 • Coram, MT
65 Days To Go!

Our Story

It all started back in February 2017...

Alex and Em met online, through a table-top rpg website they both joined. With their fellow players (most notably John, Sam, and Mike), they met nearly every week for a game of one RPG or another. Unlike most Roll20 games, this one lasted beyond a few sessions. Many laughs, adventures, and late evenings were had together, and they are all great friends to this day 7+ years later.


Em caught feelings for Alex in early 2021 when shared hobbies like gardening, going outside, and cooking large batches of curry brought them closer together. A few months later, Alex started crushing on Em, and so it began...

Em met up with Alex to go backpacking in Maryland at Green Ridge State Forest. After 24 hours of chatting, laughing, and stomping up hills together in rainy drizzle, she asked him on a date.

May 17, 2021

Em met up with Alex to go backpacking in Maryland at Green Ridge State Forest. After 24 hours of chatting, laughing, and stomping up hills together in rainy drizzle, she asked him on a date.
Alex took his first trip to visit Em in Milwaukee, WI. Alex called himself Em's boyfriend and it stuck!

June 21, 2021

Alex took his first trip to visit Em in Milwaukee, WI. Alex called himself Em's boyfriend and it stuck!
Em and Alex took their first road trip together to Badlands National Park and the Black Hills in South Dakota. Despite running into a giant hail storm, they had a grand time together and made a lot of memories.

August 25, 2021

Em and Alex took their first road trip together to Badlands National Park and the Black Hills in South Dakota. Despite running into a giant hail storm, they had a grand time together and made a lot of memories.
Their second big trip together, driving from Wisconsin to Colorado and back again with Xana in tow.

September 08, 2022

Their second big trip together, driving from Wisconsin to Colorado and back again with Xana in tow.
Em finished her second car-camper build! After a quick trip to visit Door County together, Alex went back to UMD for the fall and Em set out on a 5-week solo adventure to the west coast and back again.

September 12, 2023

Em finished her second car-camper build! After a quick trip to visit Door County together, Alex went back to UMD for the fall and Em set out on a 5-week solo adventure to the west coast and back again.
Alex successfully defended his thesis to earn his Ph.D. in Physics. He's Dr. Wikner now!

November 06, 2023

Alex successfully defended his thesis to earn his Ph.D. in Physics. He's Dr. Wikner now!
They finally closed the long-distance gap! Em flew out to Maryland for Christmas with the Wikners, then Alex and Em packed up his car to move him to Milwaukee, WI. On the way there they went to Em’s family Christmas in Ohio,  making it home on Christmas Day.

December 25, 2023

They finally closed the long-distance gap! Em flew out to Maryland for Christmas with the Wikners, then Alex and Em packed up his car to move him to Milwaukee, WI. On the way there they went to Em’s family Christmas in Ohio, making it home on Christmas Day.
Alex proposed, Em said yes! Alex snuck out the day before to Lion’s Den Nature Gorge to spell out “Marry Me?” in rocks on the shore of Lake Michigan, and the next day popped the question on a sunny morning hike with Em.

March 16, 2024

Alex proposed, Em said yes! Alex snuck out the day before to Lion’s Den Nature Gorge to spell out “Marry Me?” in rocks on the shore of Lake Michigan, and the next day popped the question on a sunny morning hike with Em.
After studying for the whole cold, dark winter, Em passed the Professional Engineer's Exam!

March 18, 2024

After studying for the whole cold, dark winter, Em passed the Professional Engineer's Exam!
THEY BOUGHT A HOUSE!!! With Alex's new job at the University of Chicago, Alex and Em closed on a cute little prairie-style 1926 house southwest of the city. Lots of renovations ahead!

May 13, 2024

THEY BOUGHT A HOUSE!!! With Alex's new job at the University of Chicago, Alex and Em closed on a cute little prairie-style 1926 house southwest of the city. Lots of renovations ahead!