Lyndsi & Luke

In Lyndsi’s words, “Back in 2016, Luke and I matched on Bumble and had our first date at our favorite restaurant, Los Bravos. From that day on, we had many date nights at Los Bravos, road trips to New Orleans, Wichita, Orange Beach, Chicago, St Louis and many more. He then proposed in February of 2018, during a basketball game at Grayville High School, where he was the athletic director at the time. He involved the cheerleaders who did this cheer at halftime, ‘Some wait a lifetime. Some meet by fate. Some meet on tinder and some on first dates. Our teacher is ready and Yes, he is BOLD. We've said it all year, Cause it never gets OLD! Red plus Black equals GOLD!’ Then the planning of the best day of our lives began!

The ceremony was at Trinity Lutheran Church in Darmstadt. This was very special to me because my parents and family have all gotten married at this church. Family and friends are very important to both of us, so we couldn’t imagine our day without including them. We had a very large wedding party which included bridesmaids, groomsmen, maid of honor, matron of honor, best men, ushers, a flower girl, ring bearer, and wedding helpers. My papaw was my world and he died in 2014. So, to make sure he was always with my on my wedding day, I had his pioneer emblem from his blue jean work shirt

stitched into my wedding gown for my something blue. Our reception was one for the books and it wouldn’t have been possible without our amazing wedding planner and organizer, my mom – Lana Gruszewski! She made our wedding ideas come to life. One of our biggest loves, is our dogs and we of course had to include them in our wedding day, so we had dog treats at the wedding for our guests to take home to their furry friends. Our dogs were rescued as strays and we named them after my husband’s favorite bourbon, Basil Hayden. So of course, I had to surprise my husband and have a groom’s cake with the Basil Hayden logo on a whiskey barrel. We had 12 flavors of popcorn for our guests, flavors ranging from dill pickle to caramel to grippos. We also had to bring in our love of football to our wedding day. My husband is a football coach, so when it came time for the garter toss, he tossed the garter on a football! We our also a house divided, Vikings fans and Packers fans. We let our guests choose Vikings or Packers colored koozies to keep their drinks cold! To end the night, we had fireworks and hotdogs from River City Dogs. We still talk about our wedding day and how we wish we could relive it with all of our friends and family.”

Making Magic

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