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I also gave matching bracelets to my bridesmaids, my sister, and my. I wanted my sweet bridesmaids to all wear the same dress, but also wanted to somehow match my Maid of Honor and sister-we constantly match unintentionally! So, we wore the same pair of earrings, which I loved. Summer days in California’s Central Valley can be well over 100 degrees, but our wedding day came after a big heat wave and was a perfect low-90s day with blue skies and a light breeze. It was convenient for everyone and so special to get ready in my childhood home, while Grant spent the morning of the wedding in the home where we now live. Being from the same place, we decided that our hometown was the best location for our wedding day. When it came down to it, however, the most important thing to us was not to be in a beautiful city requiring our guests to travel. We always talked about getting married out of town-somewhere along the California coast or a quaint town in the wine country. And second, to host a joyful reception with our favorite people in the world, including a packed dance floor. We had two primary goals for the day: first, to have a beautiful, sacred, holy Mass. You never know God's plan, and this rings true for us, as he was writing our story long before we even knew it! At the risk of sounding cliché, our wedding day could not have been more beautiful. What a blessing it is to have fostered a solid friendship before growing in our faith together as a couple, and eventually getting married. After a 13-month engagement, we were married on July 1, 2017.

We spent our engagement prepping for not only our wedding-which was so fun!-but our marriage, which was and continues to be refining in the best ways. We were honored that he blessed our engagement after Mass, right in front of the beautiful cathedral. At the San Carlos Cathedral in Monterey, California, Grant proposed.įrom the Bride: The day Grant asked me to be his bride, the Bishop happened to be at the cathedral for the evening Mass, which we attended right after the proposal.

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College meant several years of long-distance dating-including a full school year abroad-followed by Liz and Grant both returning to their hometown and beginning their respective careers. They began attending a weekly Bible study together with Father Sam, the priest who’d eventually celebrate their marriage, solidifying their individual faith lives and pursuit of each other. “His appreciation for tradition is the perfect complement to my evangelical spirit and thus we are able to remind one another of the beauty of our faith in different ways.” We were both raised Catholic, but our differences allowed us to point out the beauty of the faith in new ways to one another. “Once we started dating,” says Liz, “I could see how Grant and I complemented each other in the light of faith. It wasn’ until their sophomore year of college, at different universities, that they reconnected, and with the potential for more.Īfter a year of renewing their friendship, it became clear to both of them that they desired more.

Liz and Grant were good friends in high school but went their separate ways.