Real Weddings Katie & Matt

from Coastal Weddings Magazine Spring 2025

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Every little girl dreams about her dream wedding and dream guy. Little did I know I would get both! We had a mutual friend on Instagram and his profile popped up as people I should follow. So I started following him, and I thought he was really cute, but I didn’t think he would be interested in me. Later that night I got a friend request from him, and I was so excited about that. I posted a note on Instagram that said “I don’t regret many things in life but I regret buying this HP printer.” He replied to it, saying that it took him over a year to setup Wi-Fi to his scanner and that he was technologically challenged. I never thought when I first posted that, it would bring me my best friend.

We’ve talked every single day since then, and we went on our first date a week and half later! Our first date was perfect, we talked the entire night. We played putt putt, then had dinner at Longhorn and then we rode around town just talking and learning about each other. A week later we had our second date, and we had our first kiss at a waterfall. He has always been so supportive, caring and he always wants to help me! He’s my Prince Charming! A year later from our first date on February 4th, 2024, Matthew took me to a waterfall that neither of us had been too, and he proposed!

I knew I wanted the last 3 digits of our wedding date to be 224, which means today, tomorrow and forever. So we picked April 22nd of 2024. I wanted my dream wedding to be small and stress free! We rented a beach house and we stayed there for the wedding weekend. The only guests that attended were my parents, my sister and her husband, and Matt’s parents. Everything I had envisioned came to life, and every detail was just perfect, right down to the baby’s breath flowers in my hair. We picked to write our own vows and that just made the day even more special! There’s no one else I could imagine doing life with. A week and half after we got married my granddad passed away. That was one of the hardest things I’ve had to go through, I’m so thankful that he was able to see our wedding pictures right before he passed and that means so much to me! Matthew was so supportive during that and got me through it!