Thank you for all your support to us in our marriage. We are extremely excited to celebrate this day with you. I thought it would be good to also tell you our story of how we met and got engaged.
How we met
We were both living in an apartment complex in Provo, UT in the same building. However, we were in different wards. We had seen each other around but never did anything more than that. It is funny...Brady remembers briefly meeting me when I was playing the Piano in the Lodge. I remember meeting him in a breezeway between the guys and girls apartments. He was playing the guitar on a bench there. We both didn't think of making anymore of it at this time.
March came around. This is when it started. One Sunday (the Sunday that Brady actually got dumped by his past girlfriend) we past each other A LOT. I thought he looked really cute. I saw him stare at me too when we passed each other. So at this point, we were a little interested in each other.
On Monday, Brady knew he was going to ask me out. He said he thought about it all day. He was planning it all. He would ask me on a date, we would do this and that, and all would be great. Haha but it dawned on him that he didn't even know where to find me! These apartment buildings were big. He got discouraged. He decided to play the guitar out in the breezeway that night in hopes that I would pass by.
I too wondered if I would ever see him again. It was about 11:30 at night and I saw my roommate making her way to the door of our apartment to take out the trash. I yelled out, "No i will take it out!" She was really confused but let me have the trash. I was going to see if he was in the breeze way. Yay! He was in the breeze way playing the guitar! We made a little small talk and he found out where I lived and the next day he asked my on a date to go to a comedy club. We spent almost everyday with each other after that :)
How we got engaged
It was Wednesday July 14th. It was two day after we had visited his family in Oregon. We had a fantastic trip up there. We were both feeling like things were right for us to get married. But when we got back to Utah, he was keeping the idea of marriage hush hush. So that night, he came over after he got done with class. He asked me if he could take me on a scooter ride. I said yes of course. I love riding the scooter with him. He took me to the Hinckley building on the BYU campus. We walked behind it the beautiful gazebo in the back. He made a leaf trail to the gazebo too. I figured that maybe this was it! But I wasn't totally sure. When we got to the gazebo, there was music playing and a dozen white roses at the gazebo. He is such a romantic. We danced to our favorite songs and then all of a sudden the sprinklers went off! Haha we were getting soaked but we just laughed. It was so perfect. We continued to dance in the water. Then just a few moments later, he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him with a ring in a little box in his hand. I was crying but I formed the word yes. It was the best night of my life. I am looking forward to the next best day of my life - our wedding day, September 9th, 2010 in the Portland Oregon temple.
Laura:
ReplyDeleteHere are directions to the home where you will have your reception in Oregon on Thurs.
It is basically the same whether comming from the north or the south.
Get on I-5 (going south if you are in Portland, going north if you are in Eugene or farther south)
Exit I-5 at exit 199 toward Coburg (a few miles north of Eugene)
Turn right at the exit onto Van Duyn (go a little more than a mile on Van Duyn)
Turn right on Blackberry Lane, do NOT "turn left at Van Duyn" as google maps says to do
Blackberry Lane is a shared driveway--stay left and you will enter a gate to the Knapp residence and continue up the driveway to find parking.