Best Man: Joshua Brechtel
Groomsmen: Rick Erisman, Eric Johnston, JJ McCleary, Isaiah Mulheron, Joshua Mulheron, John Rodriguez.

Fr. Tim lives in Syracuse, New York and runs the Catholic student ministry at Syracuse University. He has been Susan's spiritual advisor and confidant for the last few years, and part of our relationship from the very beginning. We're honored to have his presence at the wedding!

There is a "tradition" at St. Thomas that in order to become a true Tommie you have to kiss another Tommie under the arches on campus at midnight. We've always joked that it's something we need to do. So after Adoration (about 11: 45 p.m.) Jeremiah says we should go become true Tommies. I think it's cute and we go down to campus. After a few minutes of shadow puppets while waiting for midnight to come around, we stepped under the arches and officially became Tommies (wink wink).

We have a "liturgy" that we do every night before say goodnight which entails checking in with each other, asking what the best part of our day was, and what we would like each other to pray about. It all started back when we first began dating, because we noticed all our conversations at the end of the day were ending in about the same fashion. So, like true Catholics, we added the sign of the cross and a certain order to it and called it our own personal liturgy. So ANYWAY while we were standing under the arches Jeremiah suggests that we do the liturgy. So we make the sign of the cross and begin. He is supposed to first ask me what the best thing that happened to me that day is, but instead he told me he'd like to ask me a different question.

So he got down on his knee and said very sweet miah-like things and asked me to marry him. He put in my hand the ring that we had picked out during a moment of romantic sillyness back in March during a visit to Idaho. And you can imagine what happened next. Me bawling and us jumping around laughing and crying and swing dancing. THEN (this boy never quits) Jeremiah pulls a dozen red roses out from a hiding spot he had arranged earlier. It was overwhelming and amazing and joyful and triumphant and I could go on and on and on (Jeremiah is laughing at me for putting triumphant in there but it goes with the Christmas song).

After walking around a bit on the St. Thomas campus we head back to Jeremiah's place and make smoothies. MMMMMM. And they lived happily ever after. Amen. ;-)

Jeremiah is beginning the entreprenuership program at St. Thomas this fall, and plans to open his own business within the next few coming years.