PROPOSAL DATE:
February 25, 2025

PROPOSAL LOCATION:
Bridal Veil Falls in Spearfish Canyon, Spearfish, SD

PROPOSAL STORY:
It was a random Saturday night in January, and Quinn asked me if I had school off for President's Day. To this question I responded, "yes," but in my head I thought, why is he worried about President's Day when I have Martin Luther King Jr. Day off too, and it is before President's Day? While I am questioning where he is going with this, I hear him say a phrase that I never thought would come out of his mouth in this context. Quinn said to me, "We should do something." After hearing this comment, I could not help myself but burst out laughing and ask him to clarify if he really just told me that we should celebrate President's Day. Apparently, he wanted to start a new tradition this year by showing appreciation to our founding fathers. God Bless America!

After composing myself, I finally asked Quinn what he thought we should do to celebrate. To this he responded, "We should go to the Black Hills." I then responded to him, saying, "Okay, what do you want to do in the Black Hills?" His response to this question immediately sent alarm bells in my head, for he said, "I don't know, what do you want to do?" For the just shy of three years that I had known him at this point, Quinn always had a plan for what he wanted to do. He would want to go to a location to do an activity. Never before had he planned to go to a location without a reason to complete an activity when there, and this location just so happens to be the place where we first met. Hmmm...

There had to have been about a full minute and a half of silence while I was putting this all together in my head, as girls tend to do. Of course, I play dumb and respond by saying, "Sure, that sounds like fun!"

Fast forward to President's Day weekend, which also happens to be Valentine's Day weekend. In this case, Valentine's Day would have been a more comprehensible reason to celebrate in the first place lol. Again, God Bless America! Quinn and I planned to drive around and go to Spearfish Canyon. He told me to dress nice on this day, which wasn't suspicious at all, and so I did. We drove around looking at the beautiful scenery and houses in the Hills, as we often like to do no matter our location. After some time, Quinn suggested that we stop by the cabin where we first met. I wasn't sure if this meant that he was going to propose at this location, but I went along with it. I just hoped that no one was staying in the cabin at this time.

We ended up just looking at the cabin from inside Quinn's pickup and reminiscing about the day we met. We also made sure to take a picture of the cabin. That way we would have a picture to show our kids one day when telling them this same story. This was such a sweet moment to look back on.

After looking at the cabin, we started our drive through Spearfish Canyon. It was beautiful scenery surrounding such a special moment in time. As I am enjoying looking out the window, I notice a sign that says, "Bridal Veil Falls," and all of a sudden I hear cracking knuckles coming from the seat next to me. Omg, is this it!?

Before I knew it, Quinn pulled the truck off to the side of the road and said, "Should we go check it out?" To this question, I of course responded, "yes," but then, to my surprise, no one moved. We both knew what was happening at this point, but we didn't want to spoil it for each other. After about two minutes of sitting in the silent car, Quinn made the first move to open the truck door. We walked to the Bridal Veil Falls lookout, and I said yes to forever with Quinn Alan Buss. Turns out, President's Day is one of my favorite holidays.

THE RING:
Round 1.88 natural carat diamond on a pave band

WEDDING DATE:
September 26, 2026

WEDDING LOCATION:
Luverne, MN