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Our Wedding

One early, eaaaarly morning November 2020, David walked into Wildcat CrossFit to inquire about a membership. He walked up to the front gate and started chatting it up with Laurie who had no idea who this guy was! She was waiting for her members to return from their warmup 400m jog. David was standing smack in the middle of their path. She told him in a nice but slightly sarcastic, joking tone, "You might wanna move, or soon you'll get run over"!Over the course of the next several weeks, they became friends. Secretly Laurie had a bit of an interest... maybe a tiny crush?One day, mid December, she invited David to go out with her and a bunch of her Wildcat friends. He happily accepted! It was a Saturday evening when Laurie, David and several other of their friends would meet at Trident 2 for food and drinks. Afterwards, everyone came back to Laurie's to sit in the jacuzzi. Everyone stayed late and had a lot of great conversation! Possibly this was the night that David decided he was interested in this spunky girl everyone called Lj?The very next day he came over to Laurie's (aka: Lj's) place to look at her walls to see about building her some cat shelves for her babies Oly and Violet.They continued to talk/text more and more over the course of the next few weeks. There was even a conversation David brought up (via text!!), that stated they should take their friendship to "the next level".... Lj got a little scared all of the sudden and texted back "it should happen organically"... (They still laugh about this from time to time)!One fateful Saturday morning (January 16, 2021), David suggested Lj come to his shop so he could give her FJ Cruiser an oil change. Lj loved this idea and was kinda smitten with the fact that David was incredibly handy. She showed up, he got under her FJ, gave it an oil change... All the while Lj sitting there taking pictures of him under her car and sending them to her friend Sandra asking, "Isn't he cute?!"When he was done, he showed her around his shop. David was/is a woodworker. He's built many kitchens, closets, bathrooms, even furniture for people. Lj was very impressed.Ready to leave the shop, they decided to go get some lunch at Guadalajara Grill, Prince Rd location (The best one in town).They left his shop in separate cars, met at Guadalajara, put on their masks, walked through restaurant, out to the patio, sat down, took their masks off and started talking about everything under the sun.At the end of their meal, the waitress came out with the bill. Lj being the independent woman she is, slapped her card down. She said it isn't a date when you go dutch! (After all, they're still just getting to know each other, right?!).. David kinda rolled his eyes in an amused way and said ok.They left the restaurant more interested in each other than ever before up until this moment. And you know what? The next DAY, they were exclusive! :DFunny thing about the lunch "non" date they had at Guadalajara though. Maybe 2 weeks later, David mentions something to Lj about whether she checks her account often... He said maybe she should.. If she had, she would've noticed that she was never charged anything from Guadalajara Grill. David hid her card and slipped it back to her after receiving the receipt.So guess what?! IT WAS A DATE!!!

Our Story

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Melinda Patete

David Buker Jr.

Jules Headstrom

Alyssa Buker

Faith Tippett

Tom Jackson

Sandra Garcia

Maid of honors significant other & father of their only child 

Karl Morin

Kya Morin

Tommy Jackson 

Lexi Jackson

Danny Jackson

Eliza's grandmother trains twice a week with the bride! Eliza also comes and joins in the fun!

Laurie & David

Laurie & David

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Photos coming soon!