For some, there comes a point in their lives where something feels missing. When things are good, it feels even better to share those things with someone else. When things are bad, it feels better to walk those paths with someone by your side.

This feeling is hard to describe, especially when you’ve never felt it before a specific moment. Then it seems to hit you like a bolt of lightning, as energizing as it is terrifying. Making yourself, your deepest self, available to someone—and potentially several someones before finding your someone—takes some courage, willingness to fail, and determination to continue the search.

It’s an anxious, unnatural thing to write a profile describing yourself for anonymous strangers to discover and decide whether or not you’re compatible. When you naturally keep to yourself, however, in-person forwardness can feel even more discontenting with its avenues that lead toward an unnatural version of yourself. Sometimes, the paths that are passive yet straightforward lead to something just as beautiful as any other.

Literally on the verge of giving up on a pining that was difficult to fathom in the first place, Nathan caught Nancy’s eye. The couple met at Wild Terra Cidery in Fargo a couple short weeks later. While Kayla, Nancy’s maid of honor, was ready to save Nancy should this guy not be true to his word, Nancy beat Nathan to the punch to ask for the second date.

Nathan and Nancy have since sang along with dozens of bands at a full-fledged rock festival, explored in the mountains of Colorado, rocked out at a Metallica concert, hiked 78 miles across Isle Royale National Park in the heart of Lake Superior, and adopted a kitten Nathan’s nephew named Fishworm.

Love doesn’t only build from the big things, but more often in the spaces between, knitting the memories together. Maybe that’s why it’s said that life is what happens when you’re planning for something bigger.

Thanks for planning to attend our wedding, and we hope you enjoy all the moments leading to February 29, 2020! We’re looking forward to celebrating with you.