Happily Ever After Party

Like many other beautiful love stories, ours began at a bar, Bengals to be specific. It was a random Tuesday night late in the summer of 2014, we were both living in Columbia for the summer before our Junior year at Mizzou (Allie serving up some wings at CJ’s and Mike working at Country Club of Missouri, of course). Although our first meeting was a bit of a “blur”, the picture we have that was taken of us that night sure makes it seem like it was love at first sight!

On a beautiful, perfect, lucky Friday (the 13th) in May, we went on a walk to one of our favorite places in Chicago - North Ave Pier, under the assumption that Mike was going to use the opportunity to get some good “stock photos”. When we got to the end of the pier, we stopped to “get our pictures of the skyline”, but when I turned around Mike had gotten down on one knee and popped the question! We then celebrated that night by hopping around some of our other favorite parts of the city (and sharing the news with friends and family, of course)!