So here we are at the end of another year. The end of a decade. And holy moly it’s been such a wild ride. And I’m here to share some of the best moments from 2019, but I can’t help but first have a precursor.

What do you get when you fly out two Oklahoman’s out to the Pacific Northwest at the end of autumn when winter is right on the cusp and you set them up on a 7-mile round-trip trail no one in your group has ever hiked before to get them married at a mountain lake next to nobody has heard about?

When autumn hits Northern Idaho, it’s unlike anything else. The air becomes thick with fireplace smoke and the musky smell of crimson and burnt orange leaves. The Tamarack go ablaze in various hues of yellows, spotting mountainsides with flame and color.

On Ruby Beach in Washington, he got down on one knee and proposed to her. Her shock was the sweetest thing. And once she said yes, and Garrett put the ring on her finger…

In the middle of the Owyhee Desert in Southern Idaho, lays a place with crazy rock formations, endless sagebrush, and a view that is utterly incredible. And it was the perfect please for these two cuties…

The morning was still, and besides the soothing hums and chants of prayer you could hear over the riad’s wall and the birds singing sweetly in the orange trees, the morning was ultimately calm and quiet, as they sipped on Moroccan mint tea before their session…