Welcome to our wedding website! We can’t wait to celebrate our special day with you. We’ve created this website as a convenient and interactive way to share all of the important details with you in the lead up to our wedding. We won’t be sending formal invitations so don’t forget to visit the RSVP page to confirm your attendance. While you’re here, we invite you to take a few minutes to read our story or look through our photos section. Finally, thank you for your ongoing love and support. We are so excited to share this day with you and look forward to dancing the night away with all of our favorite people!

Erik had been planning to pop the question for weeks. The only person who didn't know? Tracey! On the morning of April 10th, 2021, she thought that she was going into Washington, D.C. for family photos. She was so excited to get pictures together as a “family”. Erik thought she definitely knew his plan, especially after she saw engagement rings in his browser history a few weeks before. Luckily, she had no clue what he had planned that weekend.  Erik, Archie, Sue, and Tracey drove into the city. Tracey thought that the plan was to meet Elizabeth and Emma for pictures too. They walked over to the Lincoln Memorial, where Erik and Tracey have taken a picture in the same spot for many years. There they posed for their “family photo” as Sue snapped away. Erik (and Archie) waited anxiously for the big moment.  All of a sudden, he got down on one knee! Tracey still didn’t know what was happening and was very confused when he held out a dog treat to her. It turns out that Erik was trying to get Archie to look at her and had been practicing downstairs all week while she was teaching. With both of them looking at her, Erik asked Tracey to hold his hand. At that moment, she finally knew what was happening. He reached down and pulled up his pant leg revealing a ring box stuffed in his sock. Everyone around them began to cheer as he asked her to marry him. Someone called out, “Say yes!” and she did.  Tracey and Erik excitedly headed home to celebrate with her family, who just happened to be in town already for an event. Really, Erik had been planning this with them all along. When they walked into their house, Tracey hugged her mom. There was still one more surprise. Her mom turned her around to see the Kitchen family standing there! Both families were there together to celebrate the special day. It was a perfect day that neither of them will ever forget