brian + angela

Angela and Brian may not have a glamorous story to tell of how they met, but they have to admit it’s endearing. The couple met at a small town bar where Angie, a “city girl,” started talking to Brian, a farmer. Their topic of conversation? Cows. Thanks to Angie’s take-charge cousin Lisa, the couple was forced to exchange numbers before leaving, so that they could have many more conversations—on topics other than farm animals.

Angie and Brian were engaged during Christmas 2009. Shaking with nerves, Brian proposed to Angie in his parents’ kitchen. No need for apprehension, though—Angie was happy to agree to spending their lives together!

The couple soon began planning a November wedding for 280 guests. Angie took on the dual roles of bride and wedding planner with ease, organizing vendors and even making her own favors with some help from her family.

The wedding theme was classic elegance, with some hints of vintage ’60s flair, which their vendors helped them pull off perfectly at their reception. Petal & Forrest created bright yellow and white arrangements, the Lexington Lansing hotel provided a classic backdrop for the occasion, and Melissa Keeley of Telltale Photography captured it all in photographs.

And while the reception went off without a hitch, it was the earlier “hitching” at the ceremony that made for a few memorable glitches. When it came time for exchanging rings, Brian couldn’t seem to get the ring onto Angie’s finger. The bride took matters literally into her own hands and put the ring on herself. And at one point in the ceremony, Angie’s veil fell off! But the bubbly couple kept smiling—the day was too beautiful to worry about the little things.

Between the night they first met and the day they said “I do,” Brian and Angie have plenty of stories to tell and laughs to look back on. And like any marriage, theirs will collect a few more over the years. But if they can pull it off with the grace and charm they exhibited on their wedding day, the couple will still be smiling in fifty years. And they may even raise a glass to the love, and the livestock, that brought them together.