Our Story
We both grew up in Chico, CA and became friends after meeting at Bidwell Presbyterian's youth group in 2004. For some reason Rylan was okay with being friends with a nerdy freshman with braces and Anna was completely on board with being friends with a hot upper classman. We got to know each other through trips to New Orleans, Woodleaf and summer houseboating. It wasn't until Rylan had been in the Air Force for just over a year that we began to truly hit it off.
Through skype, phones calls and letters, we dated for the last three years of Rylan's military enlistment and through his three overseas deployments. Anna was attending school in San Francisco and Rylan was stationed in Tampa, Florida. Obviously, it wasn't always perfect but why not deal with the hard stuff first and the fun stuff last? The hurdles we jumped through made us remarkably inseparable. Plus, that trip to Disneyworld was pretty fun.
Rylan decided to join Anna at school at the University of San Francisco after getting out of the military, leading us both on a cross-country trip from Tampa to San Francisco. After exploring and loving San Francisco for a few years, we both graduated from USF with our BAs.
Anna's parents visited us in San Francisco the weekend before Thanksgiving this last year and unbeknownst to Anna, Rylan asked them for her hand in marriage at a cozy restaurant in North Beach. They obviously said yes and four days later in Chico, on Anna's birthday, Rylan put on the song we had our first kiss to six years earlier and pulled out the most awesome of rings. It turned out Anna got the best present in the world and said something along the lines of "Uh yeah duh of course I'll marry you!" We were joined at Fifth Street Steakhouse by our families to celebrate the moment.
Since then, we have moved to Portland Oregon with our two cats. Rylan is currently working on his Masters in Education at Concordia University and Anna is working for Airbnb.
Thank you all for supporting us through years of fun, laughter, and growth. We are so blessed to be surrounded by people like you.
Anna & Rylan
Through skype, phones calls and letters, we dated for the last three years of Rylan's military enlistment and through his three overseas deployments. Anna was attending school in San Francisco and Rylan was stationed in Tampa, Florida. Obviously, it wasn't always perfect but why not deal with the hard stuff first and the fun stuff last? The hurdles we jumped through made us remarkably inseparable. Plus, that trip to Disneyworld was pretty fun.
Rylan decided to join Anna at school at the University of San Francisco after getting out of the military, leading us both on a cross-country trip from Tampa to San Francisco. After exploring and loving San Francisco for a few years, we both graduated from USF with our BAs.
Anna's parents visited us in San Francisco the weekend before Thanksgiving this last year and unbeknownst to Anna, Rylan asked them for her hand in marriage at a cozy restaurant in North Beach. They obviously said yes and four days later in Chico, on Anna's birthday, Rylan put on the song we had our first kiss to six years earlier and pulled out the most awesome of rings. It turned out Anna got the best present in the world and said something along the lines of "Uh yeah duh of course I'll marry you!" We were joined at Fifth Street Steakhouse by our families to celebrate the moment.
Since then, we have moved to Portland Oregon with our two cats. Rylan is currently working on his Masters in Education at Concordia University and Anna is working for Airbnb.
Thank you all for supporting us through years of fun, laughter, and growth. We are so blessed to be surrounded by people like you.
Anna & Rylan