Sara & Austin

October 12, 2024 • Northbrook, IL, USA

Sara & Austin

October 12, 2024 • Northbrook, IL, USA

Our Story

Lake Carroll Summer

Picture of Lake Carroll Summer

Sara and Sean (Sara's cousin) decided to have a friends weekend at their homes in Lake Carroll in the early weeks of July, 2020- Covid summer.


It was a beautiful sunny day in Lake Carroll.

Sara decided to head out to the lake earlier than usual Saturday morning to take out the boat with her girlfriends for a spin around the lake! She's cruising along full speed with a black cherry White Claw in hand. Nothing better.

Until...... the boat comes to a complete stop. The engine is leaking oil. It wouldn't be a DUE Lake Carroll trip without boat problems! She calls Sean.... Sean told her to hang tight and help is on the way. So Sara somehow manages to find a pier to tie up to while they wait.

Then all of a sudden... to her surprise... she sees this man on Sean's boat with a sleeve tattoo coming to her rescue! He jumps in the water to tie our distressed boat to Sean's boat for a tow. The day doesn't stop over a dead boat! They tow us into Swimmer's Bay (the best place to be) to continue on with our day! From there Sara introduces herself and thanks this mysterious hero. He tells her his name is Austin.

From there the two instantly connected and fell in love under the Lake Carroll sun for the rest of the weekend. Dancing, singing, tubing and Jet-Skiing into the sunset!

Shout out to Sean for making friends with Austin ;)