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entertaining engagement story - not terribly romantic, but entertaining, nonetheless. "It wasn't really an asking situation," Hobgood bluntly states. "I had totally put him in a panic because I had said, 'It's been five years [of dating] - sh*t or get off the pot, bub!' And he was just like, 'I can't take it!' and he said, 'Here!' - the diamond ring was sitting in the drawer right beside us. Farley, for his part, recalls a distinct lack of preparation. "I didn't really have a plan," he shamelessly admits. "I had been thinking about taking her out to dinner and doing all of that stuff - she'd been giving me such a hard time for a few months. I was just over it and wanted to get it out of the way." No doubt many a groom-to-be has felt the same way - doesn't mean they don't have love in their hearts; it's just a guy thing. Anyhow, with the engagement finally official, the next step was... to wait a year? Yes, it turns out that Farley's job with the railroad system requires much advanced notice for vacations. But on the bright side, that gave the couple time to
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ponder their options for a memorable wedding ceremony and reception. "Planning-wise, we actually ended up doing the opposite of what we started out looking into," Hobgood says. "Initially, we wanted a small wedding at an Airbnb in Bloomington with friends and family. We were going to make a weekend of it, go camping, etc." So what changed? Well, one day the couple were visiting Farley's best friend, Zac Willett - the matchmaker in this situation - out at his Henderson property overlooking a lake. A light bulb suddenly went off. "Lance said, 'Why don't we just get married out here?,'" Hobgood recalls. "I said I didn't mind getting married in my hometown, but that was automatically going to make it a much larger wedding." Turns out it made it a lot more fun, too. Or as Hobgood more pointedly
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