St.Marys Catholic Church

Wedding Day

Wedding

Brookshire

Reception

Our Wedding

Welcome to our wedding website! We are so excited to share our special day with all of our friends and family. A little about us... we met off Match.com and our first date was in October 2015 where we met at Winking Lizard at 6pm. Krysten almost cancelled the date because she was on crutches with a boot...what a great first impression! ;) Luckily, she decided to go and I think we both knew after the first hour of conversation that there was something special between us. One hour turned to three turned to six. We talked all night long until the restaurant closed and the time just flew by. The next night we met again and the 2nd date lasted about 5 hours. It felt as though we had known each other for years. Josh and his family have homes in Port Clinton on Lake Erie and as soon as Krysten discovered that connection, she knew that this was meant to be since her parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles all grew up in Port Clinton as well. The 2nd weekend we saw each other, Krysten went up to the lake to meet all of Josh's family and watch the Buckeye game. We continued to date over the next several months and our relationship continued to grow. We had several big events happen during our first 4-5 months of dating. Krysten had ankle surgery which tooks months to heal, simultaneously we decided to get a black lab puppy named Jamyson to keep our 13 year old lab Jazmyn company. Krysten had always wanted chickens so we thought - what the heck..we have the room, why not? So, we bought 20 baby chicks and luck would have it that we ended up with 19 hens and 1 rooster! As much as we love the 2 acres we live on right now in Delaware, we knew that down the road we would want more space. Krysten found a 13.1 acre property for sale in Waldo, OH and we closed on the property in May 2016!! Some people may think we are crazy for doing all of this before we were engaged or married, but we both knew ultimately that was our plan. We started talking about getting engaged and went ring shopping at a few different places. The summer months were packed full of fun festivities up at the lake with Josh's family and flew by so quick. Krysten's birthday is August 5th and we took a trip to Gatlinburg, TN along with the 2 dogs for a long weekend to celebrate. Everyone (including Krysten) was anticipating that Josh would propose on this trip and when it didn't happen, Krysten had no idea what his plan was at that point but was eagerly anticipating that big day!

Our Story

Well, since Krysten thought she knew when Josh was going to propose and he proved her wrong... Krysten kept trying to think of how and when he might pop the question. The day he proposed was one that she was not expecting. Josh was in a friend's wedding that weekend and as we were talking to some of his friends at the wedding, they were asking about our relationship and if we were planning on getting engaged. Josh smiled and said "Yep we are but she doesn't know when I'm going to do it." The anticipation continued to grow for Krysten with each passing day. There was also a bet going on between Krysten's co-workers as to when she would get engaged, so it was always on her mind! It had been a rainy weekend in August with all day downpours on Saturday and Sunday. Finally on Monday it was dry and the sun was trying to peek out from behind the clouds. Josh had mowed the new property in Waldo and kept telling Krysten about how he mowed certain sections and left other areas tall and he was very excited to explain how cool it looked and that I needed to go out and see it. Krysten had to take Jazmyn to the vet on Monday morning and as soon as she got back, Josh had his boots on and was ready to go. Josh excitedly said "Come on honey, I want to take you up to see the property, it looks so cool right now since I mowed it - you just have to see it." "Okay, let me put my stuff down and change then we can go" Krysten replied.We got out to the property and Josh was explaining each of the sections that he mowed down and how they would be the spots that we would one day build the house and barn. We then took a walk through the woods just as we always do with Jamyson leading the way and picking up sticks along the way. Behind our woods is a grassy lane that opens up and has a big beautiful Black Walnut tree. As we got closer to the tree, Krysten noticed that there were 4 trail cameras all setup in a circle. Not thinking anything of it, she thought how that doesn't make sense to set them up that way unless he was waiting for a certain animal to come through from the adjacent cornfield. Krysten turned to find Josh reaching into a pocket with a huge grin on his face. It was at that time that Krysten realized what was going on and started squealing with excitement. Josh got down on one knee in the middle of all the cameras and said "Since we are going to start our life out here together, I might as well start it off right. Will you marry me?" Krysten was in such shock and so excited that she hardly let him finish his sentence before saying YES! So it finally made sense... his crazy camera setup. We took the pictures from each camera and downloaded them on the ride home and it was so amazing to see step by step photos that captured the moment perfectly. It was certainly a day that we will never forget. It is so special that 50 years down the road when we have grandkids running around, we can tell them the story of how we bought the property with nothing on it, got engaged under our favorite tree and built our home ourselves from the ground up to raise our family.

The Proposal

As exciting as 2016 was for both of us, it will definitely be hard to top the year ahead of us. 2017 will be a year of new beginnings and some big changes. Josh is a firefighter and studying for his promotional exam to become a lieutenant which is a 3 part test that started in January and will be over in April. Krysten will continue working as an oncology nurse at The James and just recently finished studying and passing her OCN certification exam. We will continue our wedding planning over the next several months. Construction at the new property will hopefully start some time in May 2017. Our plan is to build a 40x60 pole barn with half being an apartment / living space for us and the other half will be storage for Josh's parents RV. We are also going to build an animal barn for chickens and we will be adding goats once we are settled out there as well. We will list the Delaware house sometime this summer and hope it sells by the time we are ready to move into the new apartment in the fall. We plan to live there for a few years then build our actual house on the new property as well. It is all so very exciting and we both cannot wait to start this next chapter of our lives together. October 20th will be here before we know it and we are so thankful to share our special day with all of you. Cheers to 2017!

What's Next?

Details

Photos

Austin Williams

Abbey Giannamore

Brooke Stone

Bryan Bishop

Mike Bishop

Rachel Borden

Wedding Party

Q + A

Registry

We have blocked rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn for our guests to enjoy a comfortable nights stay at a hotel that is close to the wedding as well as Polaris Fashion Place for those out of town guests looking to do some shopping after all the wedding festivities are over! Please book by September 20th, 2017 to receive the discounted rate. We have a block of rooms reserved for both Thursday and Friday night! Click the visit website button below to reserve your room!

Krysten & Josh

Krysten & Josh

Photos