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Entry #1
Every girl dreams of finding their prince charming, falling in love and having this magical fairy tale wedding! Its funny how as you get older those dreams change and you find yourself just wanting someone to adore you the way you adore them and the other parts of the fantasy don’t seem to matter as much! I moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma about two and half years ago to take a new job, my life was in transition and I was starting over in a new city. Not only did I follow in love with Tulsa (which is a hard thing to admit for this Texas girl!) but I also fell in love with a wonderful man! His job had relocated him to Tulsa from Kansas and he was starting over in a city as well. Our early dates consisted a lot of trying out new restaurants, concert venues, and hot spots in Tulsa. We were both exploring this awesome city together, and I know it sounds a bit corny but, Tulsa helped us fall in love! My finance Eric is one of the best people I know, he is hard working, compassionate,loving, caring, strong, and loves his family. He is also very selfless he purposed to me on his birthday! Tulsa Oklahoma has given me the greatest gift and now feels like home and I am so excited to start a new chapter of my life with an amazing man! My best friend Stephanie said to me one day, “You do realize your dream has come true you found a man who adores you the way you adore him!” So I am here to tell you all that dreams do come true and you will find your prince charming!
Vote for Mandy & Eric!
Entry #2
Well Mason and I went to high school together, and I saw him in the hallways when I was a sophomore and thought he was the cutest boy ever and that there was NO WAY he would have noticed me. Oddly enough, I found out shortly after we started talking that he had! He thought the same thing, he thought I was too beautiful for him. We started dating at the end of my senior year and we have been together and happy ever since! We found out we were having a baby last July, the we got engaged November 16, 2012, and we became the proud parents of Landen Mason Peeler on Febuary 11, 2013. Everything has gone by so fast, but he is my best friend and he is an amazing father. I can’t imagine my life without him.
Vote for Lorin & Mason!
Entry #3
Blaine and I have a very unique story. I met him when I was 20 years old and we haven’t left each others side since then. It was the typical friend of a friend type love story but the only difference was that Blaine and I are 17 years apart in age. When I first saw him I was immediately turned off because “there was no way I could date a 36 year old” but then I got to know him and his honest and sincere personality. After hearing his life story I realized that if I were to me this perfect man of my dreams any earlier he might not have my “bad boy gone good.” I have learned from my relationship that age is just a number and timing means everything. I can’t wait to marry my best friend!!
Vote for Megan & Blaine!
Entry #4
Our love story started long before I met Clay.
If you really think about it, most love stories start that way. Every dark day, every lonely night, defines the way we appreciate the moments of happiness. When I met Clay it was that moment people say you wait for. I had heard about him before, his best friend was dating mine, but we had never been face to face until our friends got married. I was the maid of honor, he was the best man, and literally walking down the aisle together was the beginning of us. I spent my evening shamelessly flirting and maybe even doing a little bit of staring. He is seriously handsome. It was that night that led to the start of a friendship and a first date.
Our first date consisted of going nowhere we had planned to instead spend hours in parking lot playing twenty questions and learning about one another. There are so many things I will never forget about that night, but the most important of those is that I knew. I knew he was mine. He was the man God had intended for my heart to love.
Three years later, Clay proposed. He did everything right. He asked my Daddy for permission, he custom designed my ring, and he dropped to one knee in the middle of twinkle light covered trees on New Year’s Eve. He said that, “he wanted to spend forever with me and didn’t want to wait another day for our forever to start.”
Of course, I said yes.
Is our relationship perfect? No. In fact, it never will be. Clay is a firefighter and I am a teacher and with our careers come a lot of sacrifices. All of which are worth dealing with to be together. I am in love with a man who makes me laugh uncontrollably, who loves me unconditionally, and whose flaws never outweigh the parts of his character that make him a genuinely good person. God knew even before I did, that when he put Clay in my life, he would be there to stay. I wouldn’t trade this perfectly imperfect love of ours for anything!
Vote for Chelsea & Clayton!
Entry #5
We have been though a lot. Barry was in a Harley & got guy by a car. We spent the 1st year getting him healthy again. I have 2 children from previous relationships & he is an amazing role model of them both. We have a crazy awesome relationship as u might be able to tell from the pic. We finished each others sentences & say what the other is thinking or was about to say most of the time. We are sole mates. I still get that fluttering feeling in my stomach every time I see his name come up on my phone. We have never had any pic taken other that random phone pics & would love to win this Ultimate engagement session.
Vote for Andrea & Barry!
Entry #6
I have been a single mom for the past 6 1/2 years. My daughter’s father didn’t want a child, and I knew from the moment I found out I was pregnant that my daughter was a gift from God—and she was given to me for a reason. I graduated college in May of 2006, and she was born on June 17, 2006— arriving 4 weeks early. She wasn’t planned, but she was the best thing that could have happened to me, hands down.
Our life hasn’t been easy. I have raised her alone, and worked three jobs while pregnant and in college to help afford to take care of her. I have worked very, very hard, putting my life on the back burner and focusing on my daughter and giving her the best life possible. We were fortunate enough to live with my parents in the beginning, and when she was two years old, I was able to buy our own home for the two of us. Financially it has been difficult— the cost of raising a child is expensive. From daycare to health insurance and so on, we have struggled. I did not get child support, but I have tried to look at the positive throughout our situation. I saw how blessed we were and how amazing she was, and that was enough for me.
My daughter’s father came into her life when she was 3 to 4, but a family was not something that he wanted and he decided to leave. It was very hard on my daughter— having a father for a year and then having him say to her face that he was “never coming back” really took a toll on her emotionally. But she is a very smart girl, and I have tried to instill in her a positive outlook on life. I told her that I would love her just as much as any mommy and daddy could combined, and I have lived up to that promise. She has always longed for a daddy, and I hoped for her to someday have one, if the timing was right.
I began dating Cale in March of 2012. We met through a mutual friend. She insisted that we were “perfect for each other”, but I was somewhat doubtful that it would work out. Dating with a child is very hard, and I was to the point that I had almost given up. I was content with it being just me and my daughter, so I wasn’t expecting it to work just as the last couple of times hadn’t panned out. Boy, was I proven wrong.
Cale was a dream-come-true. He quickly became my best friend and welcomed me AND my daughter into his life. He was everything I could have asked for and more. He is sweet, gentle, kind, hilarious, thoughtful, patient, loving and most of all, accepting. He loves my daughter as his own, and that is very hard to find in a man. He knew that we were a “package deal”, and he was completely fine with that.
A couple months into our relationship, I received the devastating news that my daughter’s father passed away from suicide. It was heartbreaking and I have had a difficult time handling it. And through it all, Cale was right beside me— my shoulder to cry on, my listening ear, and my rock when life had gotten me down. I knew very early on in our relationship that I loved this man, and if he could accept and love me and my daughter through it all, he was exactly what I wanted and needed in life.
In November, on a clear and beautiful night, Cale took me on a much-needed date. We visited the same places where we had our first date— mexican food and cupcakes downtown. (He definitely knew his way to this girl’s heart.) After dinner, we walked around downtown, enjoying the quiet evening together. We made our way to the Myriad Gardens, a place that was special to us. This was where he had taken my daughter and I the day after news of her father’s passing. (My sweet girl loves ladybugs, and we went to a ladybug festival there back in May to surprise her. She was ecstatic that she could play with hundreds of ladybugs.)
Upon arriving at the Gardens, we walked along a path and passed by a wooden bench under a lamppost. Sitting on the edge of the bench was a book. I noticed it, thinking that someone had left a book or perhaps their Bible sitting there. I had no clue that book was going to change my life forever.
Cale walked over to the bench and asked me to come sit down and look at it. I laughed and said I wasn’t going to look at someone’s book, but at that moment I had realized that the book was meant for me.
I slowly sat down on the bench, my heart racing. I immediately had a lump in my throat and butterflies inside of me. I slowly opened the book. I then realized it wasn’t a book, but an album filled with memories. Carefully and thoughtfully placed inside were photos of “us”. There were pictures of us as a couple, Cale and my daughter, family gatherings with his extended family as well as mine, Fourth of July, our outing to the pumpkin patch, the ladybug festival, dinners together and photos of the three of us as a “family”. As I turned the pages slowly of this precious gift, the tears began to flow uncontrollably. I had never been given such a thoughtful and heartfelt gift in my life. I could see all of the love, effort and thought that went into this precious gift. To anyone else, it would just seem to be a simple photo album. But to me, it was incredible memories of the past year of my life— the happiest that I have been in a long time. It was not only photos that contained images of happiness, but also feelings of love, security, hope, trust and most of all— a future together as a family.
As I turned the book to the last page, there was not a photo inside the sleeve, but the simple word “Reserved…” I would later find out that this was a spot for a photograph from this night.
In the back of the book was an elegant, hand-made card. Looking at the card, you would have thought that it was store-bought. However, Cale had MADE the card. He went to Hobby Lobby and carefully picked out coordinating papers, and included a simple, yet perfect, small black flourish on the cover. As I opened the card, I could barely breath. The entire inside of the card was covered with words— all describing how he felt about me. They included “Helping Hand, Best Friend, Remarkable, Kind, Amazing Mom, Shy, Wise, Understanding, Beacon, Artistic, Inspiration, Quirky, Passionate, Tender, Better Half, My Shelter, My Love and Soul-Mate” to list a few.They were carefully written with my daughter’s colored pencils to coordinate the card. These were all words describing me— words that I had hoped I could be to someone someday.
As I read the rest of the message on the card, Cale slowly knelt down on one knee. The card read:
“Not with ten thousand words could I describe what you mean to me. But perhaps with a single question I can come close…”
As the tears filled my eyes, I saw before me my best friend— someone I wanted to grow old with. He was knelt in front of me, professing his love to me just as I had imagined someone would do someday. I only thought that love like this existed in fairy tales. I thought it was a myth, and that it did not exist. But as my best friend and soul mate knelt before me, I was so overcome with love and happiness that I could no longer contain it. I wept. Tears flowed down my cheeks and he said to me, “I love you, and I want to be able to tell you that every day for the rest of my life. Will you marry me?”
He then presented me with a scrapbook, with the words “Family” stitched on the front. On the cover of the album he inserted a family photo of the three of us. Being a crafty person, this meant a lot to me. I opened the first page, and written out were the words, “When two become one. When three become a family…” My heart was so full.
He went through so much trouble to scope out the perfect location. He recruited the help of my sister to photograph the moment, and my brother-in-law to video. They were running across Bricktown to make sure they had it all on film. They even hid in the trees to capture the exact moment he knelt to one knee. I was so overwhelmingly happy that I was able to share that defining moment with two people that mean the most to me. Cale had asked my parents for permission weeks prior, and even asked for my daughter’s permission. He spent the entire week prior on planning the proposal. He had “back-up” spots, just in case. My sister and her husband even roped off the pathway to prevent others from entering while the proposal was in progress. He worked so hard to make the moment special, and he did an unbelievable job. I couldn’t have imagined more.
I strongly believe that everything in life happens for a reason. I believe God puts us through trials and tribulations and if we do the right thing, we will eventually be rewarded. I feel like all of my hard work as a parent has paid off, and that Cale was place in my life at just the right time. He was put there to not only be my husband, but to help me through the passing of my daughter’s father and to take over that role in my daughter’s life. My daughter is so happy to “finally have her very own daddy”. She deserves a loving father more than anything in this world, and I am so happy that Cale can now be that person. I am excited to start our lives together as a family.
Vote for Lindsay & Cale!
Entry #7
Max and I are actually already married. He joined the military and in the beginning neither one of us had much information on the military. So in true panicked fashion we did a rushed marriage. March 9th of this year we tied the not and I haven’t looked back. I do love him more than anything and I don’t regret our marriage by any means, but I do wish we had more tangible memories. We met a little over a year ago and due to his personal tragedies are start was a very rough one. But with a little time and a lot of patients we fell in love and became best friends.
Vote for Savannah & Maxwell!
Entry #8
I am engaged to be Married Oct 4, 2013 to my wonderful Fiance Reed. He is amazing, God made him just for me. It would mean a lot to Reed and I, if we win, this will help greatly with our Wedding Budget.
Funny Story: Reed and I get a lot of laughs about his last name “Boomer” cause the funny thing is being from Oklahoma, everyone teases him it about it. He has a tattoo on his forearm that reads “Boomer” so naturally everyone thinks it is because of the OU Sooners, they say “Wow” you are die hard Sooner Fan” He laughs it off and says ” No!, thats my last name and actually, I am a Cowboys fan” Ouch! However, once married, we will be a house divided cause I will be the Boomer that is a Sooner Fan
Winning this contest would be Amazing to say the least. It has been a tough year for my family. My parents have been unemployed for almost one year after being business owners for 15 years. Its been tough. This is my senior year in High School, I will be graduating this May, so they have paid for all the expense that come with being a Senior i.e. pictures, graduation invitations, Prom and now my Wedding. Although they don’t complain I know this is a worry in the back of their minds. I hope you will go vote for us. Thank You!
Vote for Daysha & Reed!
Entry #9
This photo was taken, by me, the morning after he proposed to me. He proposed the day before Valentine’s Day. I had this big, romantic night planned. I had booked us a room at a local bed and breakfast, and I had dinner planned at an upscale restaurant. After 5 years of dating, I never imagined he would actually propose. It was just a known fact that we were together for the long haul. And then he surprised me, and made my surprise Valentine’s night to him, even more special.
I knew from the beginning that he was THE one. He has been there for me through thick and thin. We have had our highs and our lows, and through it all, our relationship is stronger than ever.
Vote for Jacqueline & Jacob!
Entry #10
An innocent church girl’s search for a “summer fling” before college, landed her into the arms of a rebel rocker kid with a 4″ mohawk. What began as a short-lived summer full of looking at stars in his truck, and spending every summer day adventuring turned into a lifetime of love. When Thomas asked for my dad’s permission to have my hand in marriage all he could say was “We prayed for a man to come into Meredith’s life, and when you came to our house with that mohawk and metallica shirt all I could think was “Really God?”. Since then, Thomas and I have grown a lot in maturity, and in our faith but our high school days are times we will never forget.
We spent a year as a long-distance couple while I started college which was one of the most challenging times in our relationship. Thomas was always caring, sending flowers and suprising me with picnics and other creative dates, he knew how to pursue me while I was off being a “rebel” in college. As many guys as I knew throughout college, I always knew that Thomas was the only man I ever wanted to love. Our second year of dating, we both attended Oklahoma State and had a great time dressing up for fraternity/sorority date parties and finding new ways to adventure. He never failed to be my rock when times were hard, and he makes me laugh every day.
This spring break we took a trip to visit my parents in Florida. St.Patrick’s day has always been one of my favorites because my family is Irish and we always have a great meal and celebration. After some great corn beef and cabbage we drudgingly headed to my Grandma’s yacht club to listen to old people spout off limericks which were very “influenced” by their choice of beverage. Thomas asked if I wanted to sneak away and take a walk on the beach, so we headed out and stopped to grab some homemade ice cream at a shop by the beach. Thomas was so nervous that he knocked his scoop of ice cream off on the beach when I wasn’t looking. After walking just a few steps, he got down on one knee, I immediately put my hands to my face and began crying. He asked me to be his wife, and of course I said yes! We had a great celebration after, and I was so glad he asked my dad for permission.
We are always silly together, and that is my favorite thing about us. In fact, the other night we decided to build a fort in his parent’s living room and watch kid’s movies. Silly things like that are the rule for us, rather than the exception. As long as I am with him I am happy, and he is the most caring man I have ever met. He cares for me, and he is careful to be thoughtful in all that he does. Thomas and I cannot wait to spend the rest of our lives together, and I’m especially excited to bake cookies for him in the pink kitchen aid he got me for my birthday! We’re planning a “rustic, vintage” wedding for next May! We hope to show our guests God’s love for them through our wedding with simple decor and a traditional Christian ceremony.
Vote for Meredith & Thomas!
Entry #11
We met bout 3 years ago and I literally dropped everything when I saw her in a bar (crappy way to meet I know but I wouldn’t change anything) I had to meet her I just had to luckily she did the same to me:)
She’s in the army so I don’t get to spend a lot of time with her but the moments I do are precious to me!
We got engaged last year and we are getting married may 15 2014.
Vote for Amanda & Andrea!
Entry #12
Cody and I met when we were sixteen. We fell in love hard and fast. We’ve faced several obstacles and made many beautiful memories. We have been together through it all. On our third anniversary, Cody had planned a surprise date for us. It was a beautiful day in October and we spent the entire day celebrating the three years together that we had been so blessed to receive. He had taken me on a boat ride that afternoon, we shared a wonderful dinner that evening, and afterwards he had arranged a carriage ride to our final destination of the night. We arrived and as we walked hand-in-hand down the path to an outdoor stage, I saw nothing but beautiful lights lining our walkway. We stood under a large tree, dimly lit by the stage surrounding us. Cody said that he wanted to talk about our relationship and our future, about how he had always loved me and knew that I was the woman that he would one day marry. Shortly after, he dropped to one knee and presented me with the most beautiful ring I had ever seen. Now we are planning our vintage-themed wedding and are so unbelievably excited to spend the rest of our lives together. We are so anxious for the big day, but we also cherish every day that we are engaged to the love of our life. This session would be incredible and would help us to capture this amazing moment in our lives. Thank you so much for considering us for this wonderful opportunity.
Vote for Amber & Cody!
