Wedding Day

Ceremony

The Ranch at Sugar Spring Ranch

Reception

Our Wedding

Hannah and Ethan met during their Wesclin Middle School band days; however, they were not actively in each other’s lives until high school. After high school football games, the band members typically found themselves at McDonalds or Dairy King to order food and chat. After the homecoming game in 2017, Hannah and Ethan sat together at a booth at Dairy King. As they spoke about the homecoming dance that was coming up the next day, Hannah was baffled to find out that Ethan would not be attending the dance. He had no date and planned on staying home to hang out with his friend. Hannah told him that the following year, she would go with him so that he had a reason to go. Crazily enough, they ended up dating a few months later, so Hannah did keep her promise and took him to homecoming.&nbsp; In February of 2017, Hannah was struggling with a timpani piece in concert band. She did not want to mess up at the concert, so she went to Ethan for help. He began tutoring her after school for the next few weeks. Once they were talking on a more regular basis, they started dating and have been inseparable ever since. Ethan graduated high school in 2018 and went on to SIUE to pursue his degree in computer science. Hannah also decided to go there a year later to get her degree in elementary education. They went on to do a lot of the same activities in college: Make-A-Wish, Drumline, InterVarsity, and Student Government. After college, in 2023, they bought a house together. A few months later, Ethan took Hannah on a “date day” to propose. Since SIUE was such a huge part of their relationship, Ethan wanted to take Hannah geocaching there. This is something that they have already done before on campus, so Ethan “found” a new geocache location on campus for them to explore. Little did Hannah know, Ethan actually placed that geocache himself. The clue led her directly to a bottle with a note in it written by Ethan. During the proposal, Ethan had their good friends LeaMarie and Jason staked out taking pictures and recording the whole thing.

Our Story

The trip to Dairy King that started it all.

Photos

Abigail Adcock

Reiss Wegman 

LeaMarie Hays

Jason Kattenbraker

Alyssa Boulanger

Gabe Gagen

Lillianne Adcock

William Adcock

Olivia Bassler

McKennyn Fleek

Arianna Rodriguez

Jordan Shirley

Cora Hill

Jarred Ramsey 

Autumn Wells

Christopher Trimble

Max Welle

Baker Welle

Fiona Morr

Jacob Morr

Dawson Rowold

Dave Manley

Landon Hinkle

Madelon Hinkle 

Adam Johnson

Grant Johnson

Wedding Party

Q + A

We are having a shuttle to and from the wedding venue. If you would like to take the shuttle, it will be leaving the Hampton Inn hotel and going to our venue at 3:30pm and 4:00pm. The shuttle will then take people back to Hampton Inn at 11:00pm and 11:30pm. If you do not shuttle to the venue, but you are too intoxicated to drink, you are welcome to leave your car at Sugar Spring Ranch as long as you pick it up by 10am the next day.

Travel

Things to Do

Registry

Audio Guestbook Instructions

We have an audio guestbook that we would love for you to call to leave us a message! Here is the number: 1-800-437-3009Invitation number: 93766 Call as many times as you want. Your call can be up to 30 minutes long. Just don't forget to tell us who you are when leaving your voicemail!

Audio Guestbook!

Hannah & Ethan

Hannah & Ethan

Wedding Party