THE GARDENS of Castle Rock

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The HideAway Coffeehouse and Wine Bar

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Our Wedding

Brian and Mettine met upon the mystical web of Match.com in May of 2014. They decided to meet in person on Wednesday&nbsp;June 18th 2014 and there was an instant connection! They planned their second date for Sunday&nbsp;(just 4 days later)!&nbsp;At that time Mettine was working at Shamrock animal hospital full time and part time at Target. By a brink of magic she got that Saturday off and took Gordie to the dog park. After a few texts Brian decided to be put to the test and meet Gordie, because his opinion was the most important!&nbsp;Brian showed up to the battle creek dog park on his motorcycle in a leather jacket, jeans and riding boots and pulled out&nbsp;a dog toy for Gordie!&nbsp;&nbsp;After a few laps around (and Brian sweating in his jeans and boots on a 90 degree day)&nbsp;&nbsp;they&nbsp;went to spend a few&nbsp;hours in the sun at Dairy Queen.&nbsp;Their second date was just&nbsp;&nbsp;a&nbsp;day&nbsp;later and was so much fun!&nbsp;Brian went to the cabin for the week of 4th of July for a 4-wheeling ride. He came home 2 days early to spend the weekend with Mettine and that was that! They decided the very next week to be come exclusive!&nbsp;

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Micheal has known Brian his whole life, because he is his little brother!

Michael lives in Blaine with his wife&nbsp;&nbsp;Jenny and their fur babies Colby (cat) and Murphy (dog) !&nbsp;

Michael Unruh

Mettine and Maria met in 7th grade social studies. Their friendship slowly grew until 10th grade when they were on the Cheerleading team together,&nbsp;they have been BFFS ever since!&nbsp;

Maria had 2 Maid of Honors in her wedding, her sister Jenna&nbsp;and Mettine!&nbsp;



Maria lives in Inver Grove Heights with her husband Ryan, their&nbsp;beautiful daughter Bryor and fur babies&nbsp;Stanley and Gypsy!&nbsp;

Maria Schaffer

Brian met Matt while working at battery plus in high school. Matt is like&nbsp;a second little brother, they're a special&nbsp;pair!&nbsp;



Matt and his wife Rita live&nbsp;in River Falls, WI with 2 dogs (Gus and Emmett) and feline friend Squeakers and 2 children&nbsp;Wyatt and Millie.&nbsp;

Matt Trcka

Courtney and Mettine met at Shamrock Animal Hospital in 2014, Courtney joined the&nbsp;team right out of tech school. &nbsp;

The pair took a road trip for an amazing&nbsp;hike to the Havasupi reservation&nbsp;and&nbsp;got lost in the desert of Arizona, don't worry they made it out, and to the hike!&nbsp;



Courtney lives in Cottage Grove with her husband Colon, adorable son Griffin and furbaby Hanky.&nbsp;

Courtney Stroth 

Mettine met Kristi in 2011 when she joined Wolff Animal Hospital. They frequented Don Pablo's for taco Tuesdays! Eventually some shady things went down and the clinic closed abruptly. But they remained friends!



Kristi currently lives with her husband Joe &nbsp;on base in&nbsp;Virginia. Joe was offered a 2 year physical training&nbsp;position that took them to Virginia with their 2 young kids! Their &nbsp;monkey son&nbsp;Lincoln,&nbsp;darling daughter Briella and fur babies Bella-boo and Lilly.&nbsp;

Kristi Brown

Brian &nbsp;met Erik while working at Batteries Plus. Brian and Erik were roommates for 2 years before Erik&nbsp;accepted a position in Nebraska. (Shortly after Brian met&nbsp;Mettine and she moved in to the condo Eric and Brian rented together)&nbsp;&nbsp;Erik lives in Coon Rapids with his girlfriend Pam.&nbsp;

Erik Loftsgaarden

Mettine and Erica met through a mutual friend and&nbsp;have been friends since sophomore year in high school!&nbsp;

Their junior year of high school&nbsp;they both dated boys &nbsp;on the&nbsp;wrestling team&nbsp;and went to &nbsp;meets together. They&nbsp;have a&nbsp;bond thats a bit different than with&nbsp;others because&nbsp;&nbsp;they appreciate each others blunt and to the point personality. That&nbsp;very reason is why Erica asked Mettine to go Prom dress shopping!&nbsp;





Erica lives&nbsp;in Eden Prairie with her husband Steve, precious daughter Nora, and fur babies Ashton and Raleigh. &nbsp;

Erica Beech 

Leigh was Brian's manager at Batteries Plus. Brian has looked up to Leigh like a big brother!&nbsp;

He lives in Hugo&nbsp;with his wife Alisha&nbsp;and 2 kids&nbsp;Brendan and Adelynn.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Leigh Kennedy 

Oliver will be 3 at the wedding, he likes&nbsp;to color and help mom and grandma bake! He lives with his&nbsp;puppy &nbsp;(Henry),&nbsp;parents Amanda (Brian's sister) and And and his younger brother, Ezra&nbsp;!

Oliver Bocchi

Amy and Mettine have known each other since second grade!!!&nbsp;Yes you read that right,&nbsp;like in Elementary school fresh out of diapers!&nbsp;

Mettine says "[they]&nbsp;will always be in each others life!" Actually this specific&nbsp; story starts in April&nbsp;2014 when Mettine moved in with Amy and Maria! In May they decided to join Match.com! They made suggestions for each&nbsp;other to check out&nbsp;and busted the players, watched the Wild games together even if that meant visiting Amy at work, and stayed up late watching old childhood movies! Yes Amy was there when Mettine decided to&nbsp;wave&nbsp;or poke&nbsp;or whatever passive option match had to get someones attention!&nbsp;Any way Amy and Mettine will always be friends and with that we should announce that Mettine and Brian have asked Amy to be their officiant and she said YES!!!&nbsp;



Amy lives in Inver Grove Heights with her Husband Brad, handsome son Kye and fur baby Ben!&nbsp;

Amy Holum 

Mettine met Kelsey through Maria junior year of High School. Unsure how they met actually! &nbsp;They grew their friendship through love of &nbsp;cats,&nbsp;wine&nbsp;and Taylor Swift!&nbsp;Kelsey lives in Circle pines with her boyfriend Jordan and fur babies Bella and&nbsp;Wallace.

Kelsey Gregg

Gordie was brought to Shamrock Animal Hospital June&nbsp;6th of 2012 by the sheriffs. He was running without a collar on 3 legs&nbsp;and it&nbsp;was suspected that he was hit by a car breaking his right front leg. A local non- kill shelter raised money to pay for his leg to be repaired;&nbsp; Gordie was obviously loved by all the staff and had his surgery was perfomed on a Friday. Mettine knew with the weekend ahead he wouldn't have 24 hour care. She decided to take him home for the weekend; she gave him pain injections  every 8 hours with daily bandage changes. Monday rolled around and she brought him back to work with her. Well EVERY&nbsp;time she left the back treatment room&nbsp;he screamed and howled. So that was that; she adopted him from the shelter the day he was discharged!&nbsp;

Gordie Wood

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Registry

Single&nbsp;night&nbsp;&nbsp;and limited&nbsp;2 night room rates&nbsp;available.&nbsp;click the link below for our discounted rates!&nbsp;

Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Northfield

We have 10 rooms reserved for guests staying Friday and Saturday night.&nbsp;THIS&nbsp;BLOCK&nbsp;IS&nbsp;A&nbsp;2 NIGHT&nbsp;MINIMUM&nbsp;If you need 1 night only&nbsp;book with Fairfield inn.&nbsp;

Mettine & Brian

Mettine & Brian

Registry

Gift cards to The Home Depot, By the yard, and Love sac for those who don't like shopping.