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Wedding Day

Wedding

Reception

Our Wedding

We met at the beginning of our Sophomore years at K-State in the Fall of 2012. There is some disagreement about when we first met. Landon claims it was at a cookout, yet Kadi claims it was in Statistics class. We naturally spent lots of time together because we were both studying Industrial Engineering and were involved in a campus ministry, Ichthus.During their first season of friendship, Landon had a crush on Kadi yet never acted on it. His feelings slowly moved to mere friendship. All the while, Kadi was not interested in Landon. Their relationship continued to grow as they took more classes together.During the next season of our friendship our house churches combined. We led a house church together junior year, promising church leadership that we were NOT interested in each other and therefore would not date. In Landon's mind, this meant that dating wasn't an option. Through all the time spent together, Kadi gradually started liking Landon and his unintentional, flirtatious demeanor made her think he liked her as well.The next semester their friendship started out awkward but slowly began to go back to normal. Landon slowly began to like Kadi, and Kadi, despite trying to fight it, still liked Landon. At the end of the semester he confessed his feelings for her convinced she would deny him but she didn't. A few days later they went on their first date which was just the beginning to their happily ever after.

Our Story

On October 24th, 2014 Landon asked Kadi to marry her. They went on a double date with their friends Laura and Taylor. They convinced Kadi that after dinner they would be going to the beach (one of their favorite secret hangout spots) for Taylor's birthday. Towards the end of dinner, Laura received a fake text saying that they needed to pick up some friends so they would meet us out at the beach. They left dinner and headed out to the beach, Kadi was clueless what was waiting for her.Once they parked, they began a 10-minute walk down the trail leading to the beach. Halfway through the walk, with help of family and friends, the path was candlelit (it was dark by this time). At the beginning of the candlelit path was an empty scrapbook titled 'Landon and Kadi's Love Story'. Along the path were several stops with chapters building their story in a scrapbook/storybook fashion. At each stop, they read the next chapter and inserted it into the storybook. The path led to the beach where the final chapter was found. Moments later, there on the beach, Landon asked Kadi to marry her. She said 'ABSOLUTELY!!'Both families emerged from the dark and celebrated together. They returned to Kadi's house for a party with their friends.

The Proposal

Details

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Alaina is Kadi's only sister. She is currently a junior at Olathe Northwest High School and is the talented child of the family. Alaina is always an encourager and knows exactly what advice to give when Kadi is feeling down. Alaina and Kadi bond over making silly music videos, sharing their top-secret writing, and talking about life.

Alaina Thomsen

Joanie and Kadi have been kind-of friends since high school, and best friends since the middle of college. Joanie is the funniest person that Kadi knows, and is always up for an adventure in KC (or an attempted adventure, at least). Joanie and Kadi have their own text language, send each other Office snapchats, and refuse to hug, as only the best of friends do.

Joanie Lindsey

Tamara lives in Berlin, Germany and was an exchange student with Kadi's family during her junior year in high school. Kadi chose Tami because she was "the pretty exchange student", but little did she know Tami would become one of her closest friends. Kadi and Tamara travelled to Paris, Prague, Spain, and Germany together a few years back. They bond over both loving attention, dancing silly, and talking about how Christ is working in their lives!

Tamara Schmidt

Bethany and Kadi have been friends since Kadi's mom made her invite Bethany over for her 13th birthday party (they were neighbors). The two have a lot of fun together and are always excited to share their hearts with each other. They love to take walks, take blonde/brunette pictures, and talk and laugh about life, and they have been through a lot of it together! 

Bethany Axe

Brianna and Kadi became friends in 2013 when they interned together at Emmanuel Church. They kept each other in check, comforting each other and loosening the other up when things got stressful. They continued their friendship at K-State, and walked together through very tough times, loving and caring for each other the whole way. Brianna and Kadi love to laugh and listen to each other talk about life (Brianna is excellent at this!)

Brianna Winn

Lindsey and Kadi have been friends since joining cheerleading together in 2nd grade. They have loved each other through every awkward and uncool stage, and somehow came out on the other side. Lindsey always knows where to shop and how to befriend almost anyone in the world, and she is practically an honorary daughter of the Thomsen household. Kadi is blessed to have a friend like Lindsey who has been a loyal friend for so long!

Kadi & Landon

Kadi & Landon

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