Dalla Wedding | Cuyahoga National Park Forest Wedding
When I blogged Lochlen and Mads Engagement Session, I teased that she had written me the longest inquiry I’d ever received. She detailed every bit of their story, and I knew we were all going to get along so well. Instead of writing like I usually do, I thought I would let Mads tell the story. Here is what she wrote to me in their inquiry!
“In October of 2016, Lochlen and I traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa and Pemba, Mozambique for three months. We were attending a hands on missionary training school called Harvest School run by Iris Global. We both had an incredible experience but due to the large attendance of students at the school, over three hundred, we only met on the final day of school. On that last morning in Africa, a group of mutual friends decided to go watch the sunrise at the beach. During this time, a storm came over and it began to rain heavily. We all ran for shelter under little concrete pillars that could only shelter two people at a time. Lochlen and I ended up under one together and got to chatting for over an hour as we waited for the storm to pass. We could not believe that we had just spent months living with each other but never having met.
While we were in Africa, mutual friends of ours got engaged and asked us to be part of their wedding day back in New Zealand (I being a bridesmaid and Lochlen shooting their photos). When Lochlen and I arrived in New Zealand on the 18th of March, 2017, we reconnected immediately. During our time in New Zealand we were inseparable. No matter where we were, we were by each other’s side. After a week our affection grew and we both started to see each other as more than a friend. We both started thinking this could be someone I’d live the rest of my life with.
I left New Zealand to return home to Ohio and Lochlen left to spend a month in his home town in Australia before returning back to Whistler, Canada. During this time we kept talking, everyday we would facetime for hours on end. When Lochlen arrived back in Canada, I told him I had looked into flights to come see him and asked if that was something he’d like. He said he had done the same to come see me in Ohio. I told my parents I planned to visit Lochlen but before I knew it, my father booked my family of five all tickets to have a holiday in Canada and to meet Lochlen. Since then we have fallen more in love with each other and have travel together all over the world serving on missionary bases and making blissful memories.
We are now planning to get married in Akron, Ohio on September 14th 2019, in a location in Cuyahoga National Park”
This is their wedding story!
