Shelby Boswell likes to say she made all the first moves at the beginning of her relationship with her now-husband, Zach. The Kansas City girl spotted him across a classroom at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, where they were both studying. “From that point on, I had my eyes on him,” she says….
To say Nicole and Brian Graham didn’t fall in love at first sight would be an epic understatement. The pair met through a friend of Nicole’s who was dating Brian’s twin brother, but they didn’t initially click. “We had no use for one and other, we were just coincidentally hanging out with the same people,”…
Keely and Mike Westfall’s Colorado wedding was nine years in the making. Keely and Mike had been friends since he transferred to her high school but started dating as they headed into college and have been together ever since. After graduating, Keely and Mike moved to Colorado, where they had spent a college summer. One…
Faith and family helped bring Courtney and Andrew Summers together. Courtney and Andrew met in Lawrence, Kansas, where Courtney grew up and Andrew’s brother serves as a pastor. They connected through his church, which her family had started attending. “There was a cute boy playing guitar up at the front that I wanted to see…
The Proposal David Anderson’s Fourth of July weekend proposal was supposed to go off with a bang. Along with his girlfriend Maggie and their families, they were spending the weekend at his family home in Jonesboro, Indiana, where he planned to have Maggie light a firework and then run away from it to find him…
Slam Dunk for Love For Kayla and Nate Launius, love was as easy as A-B-C. The pair, who were friendly from both playing basketball on their respective teams at MidAmerica Nazarene University, were seated next to each other in a literature class because of alphabetical order—her maiden name is Lindenmeyer. Their relationship grew beyond the…
First Love When Will Rieger proposed to his now wife Kassi, he sent her on a scavenger hunt that paid tribute to their long history together. The pair met in the fifth grade when Kassi moved to Will’s school district and joined safety patrol. Will, one of the captains, chose her to be his lieutenant,…
Emily and Joe Mattli’s wedding was the happy ending of a love story that stretched back to the couple’s high school days—at least it did for Emily. “We went to the same high school in Smithville,” she says. “I was a freshman when he was a senior and he was like big man on campus….
Expect the unexpected. The adage could be the motto of Tess and Marc McWilliams’ relationship, from their initial meeting to their engagement to their wedding. The pair first met four years ago on a very blind date arranged by mutual friends—neither had any idea they were being set up, and Tess did not take it…
Jeanette Glaze and John Coleman’s road to the altar started unconventionally—with a concussion. The pair met the weekend they moved into college at the University of Missouri – Kansas City 10 years ago and had been dating since their freshman year. Then over Labor Day weekend 2016, John hatched a plan to propose: He would…
When you know, you know. Karlie Aiken had that feeling when she met her now husband, Alan, through a mutual friend. They got together for lunch, then dinner the next night, where they sat talking for five hours. “We were pretty much together every day from there on out.” Both knew what they were looking…
Tiffany and Ryan Todd’s wedding was a family affair, just like their love story. The pair met working for 90.9 The Bridge’s promotion team in college and found themselves going to five or six concerts together each week. Their friendship grew into a relationship, and after a year they found out a beautiful daughter, Maxine,…
Lauren and Hank Roberts’ love story gets an A+ from us. The pair met while going through training at the Oklahoma school where they had both recently been hired as teachers. They were seeing other people at the time, but Lauren and Hank became best friends—and when they were finally both single, they took the…
When Madison and Manuel Fichtl tied the knot this summer, it was an international affair. Madison, originally from Nebraska, wed Manuel in his native Germany. But before their wedding came the pair’s continent-spanning love story. Manuel was working in Milwaukee when he met Madison at a bar. She liked his accent, while he liked that…
Kerstin and Cory Robertson first met briefly at a wedding. The details of their next encounter are a little fuzzier—Kerstin says they met at the Plaza business where Cory worked, while Cory would contest it was actually at Hammerpress during First Friday. Regardless of the specifics, the pair found themselves spending time together with mutual…