John and Laine met in the summer of 2020. John can only speak for his side of the story, but every time he tells someone how they met, the phrase, "I knew I loved her in the first three minutes" is always involved. And John will still, to this day, say that is true. What he will often omit, however, is that he knew he wanted to marry her two minutes later.

But that's the truth. He fell in love with nearly everything about her, and every second he spent with her only served to deepen his conviction more and more. Going through college together was trying at times, especially when John was going through his "This mustache totally works" phase, but they got through to senior year in pretty okay shape.

Fast forward to just before the 2025 Easter Vigil Mass at Christ the King Chapel, when John placed a small black ring box on the High Altar. For John, the ring box held more than mere gold and diamonds, it held hopes and dreams of things far more valuable. It held the hope of hearing the words "I do" uttered from the mouth of the woman he loved, it held the sound of their first child's cries, it held the promise of a life spent helping, supporting, cherishing, and loving Laine.

Two days later, on Easter Monday, John knelt down before her and told her that from the first five minutes of meeting her he had been dreaming of this exact moment. He told her that while there was breath in his lungs and blood in his veins he would love and protect her with all of his strength and with all of his heart. Then, he asked her to be his wife. John has asked many questions over the course of his life, and some of them were very hard to come up with or express rightly, but that question- that question was the easiest question he has ever asked.

Today, John sits across from Laine writing this and he realizes that it only took five minutes to change the course of his entire life, and how easily it might have been for him to never have even met her. Then, John thanks God with all his heart, and ponders how amazing it is that He has the power to turn just five minutes into a lifetime of companionship with a heart, a soul, and a mind the goodness of which he couldn't ever hope to express...

M&J

Mass & Reception

2:00 PM–3:30 PM

Ceremony

5:00 PM–10:00 PM

Reception

Marriage of Madelaine & John