How They Met: - It was a night of celebration! As Lauren came back to the Fairmont Hotel from her friends 25th birthday and Ryan came back to the same hotel from his friends Bachelor party, both groups met on the elevator. After chatting on the elevator the two groups decided it would be fun to meet up and hang out for awhile.

- After hours of talking, and Ryan still did not have a date for the Bachelors wedding, it was brought to his attention that Lauren was an amazing wedding date. So Ryan asked Lauren to be his date for the Bachelors wedding the following weekend, where she gladly accepted and that became their first date.

The Proposal: - After Ryan asked her parents for her hand in marriage over Thanksgiving break, he waited for the perfect opportunity to ask her to marry him. As New Years Eve was approaching, he set up a romantic date at a nice restaurant to set the mood.

- Ryan knew that he and Lauren were going to celebrate New Years Eve with a bash, but little did Lauren know that it would be for their engagement! After eating dinner, they headed back to get ready and meet up with their friends for the New Years celebration

- Once Ryan and Lauren were alone, he knelt down on one knee and popped the big question and she gladly accepted!

Whoa!!! - A glimpse of the windy conditions Tricia had to contend with as her mom runs in to save the veil from blowing clear across Texas.

Katie: - Joe and I met while we were both attending Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA studying Civil Engineering. It was 2007, Joe was a graduate student, and I was a junior. Even though we were in the same program, and it was pretty small, we actually did not meet in classes. I played on the womens club softball team, and our club President, who was also in Civil Engineering, knew Joe asked him and another friend, Nick, to help out and coach our team.

Katie: - Joe, Nick and I would occasionally go to a movie and dinner after practice or on the weekend. It was fun, ya know, just 3 friends hanging out. Then one time, the three of us went to a movie, and were going to dinner afterwards, but somehow it ended up just being Joe and I... I started to get a little suspicious. Joe asked a lot about me, and was very attentive and interested in everything I had to say. Afterwards when I went home, I looked in the mirror and wide-eyed said: "I think I just went on a date! Ahhhhhhhhh!"

Katie: - During Spring Carnival in April that year, Joe took me to Washington DC for the day, just because I said I had never been there. I was amazed that he offered to drive for 4 hours, show me monuments and museums all day, and drive another 4 hours back just because I mentioned I wanted to go someday. Aaaaaannnnnnd thats when I finally admitted that we were probably dating! Haha!

Katie: - After that, Joe graduated and moved down to Texas. I still had a year and a half of school in Pittsburgh, so we did the long distance thing until I graduated and found a job in Texas too. We really enjoy being in the same city!

Joe: - It took me a while to actually set a date to propose to Katie. I was initially planning to propose to her the weekend after the new year after she visited her family for Christmas, but I thought it would be awesome to pop the BIG question before she left so that she could celebrate with her family while she went to Montana.

Joe: - So I got the date set, but I had no clue where to propose. At the Dallas Arboretum? No, too many people did it there. Somewhere on a mountain? No, this is Dallas, there are no mountains. Maybe take her on a plane ride or hot air balloon? No, I was too afraid that Katie would drop the ring. But there was this park where Katie trained for her half-marathon last Fall called White Rock Lake, and it had a really cool waterfall/dam area that we ran by. So I thought it would be an awesome place to take her and propose to her there.

Joe: - The day arrived, Saturday, December 17th. I had the day planned and had a few of our friends to meet us there to take pictures when I got down on my knee. I took her to the Y.O. Steakhouse for lunch, and afterwards I suggested we take a walk at White Rock Lake.

Joe: - We started to walk up a hill towards the other side of the waterfall and I see that my friends had no where to hide! But....luckily our friends (Minh, Steph, Mel) were pretty slick, so they started to act like they were tourists taking pictures facing opposite of the waterfall. I quickly suggested to Katie that we walk towards the waterfall (away from our friends) and had our backs to them. The time came and I started to get butterflies in my stomach. I did not know what to say or how to start it!!

Joe: - I asked Katie if I could pray for us. I started praying thanking God for bringing Katie into my life, and how awesome God is for me to be able to share life her. Knowing that God answers prayers, I asked God to answer my prayer and have Katie say "Yes". At that moment, she opened her eyes to ask me what that meant, and when she did I got down on my knee and asked her to marry me! I was on my knee for a while cause it took her a while to say "yes", but she finally did.