The Degener Wedding

A Schleifer Farm Wedding Day: October 12, 2024

Brett and Haley met in Mrs. Skaer’s math class in 2013, right before Haley was graduating early from high school. This meant they were only in class together for a semester. Brett and Haley were sat next to each other in class, so they were partnered in group projects. Brett and Haley, along with other classmates, all swapped Snapchats as that was “the way” to communicate in high school! With that, Brett and Haley knew each other as classmates and nothing else. Haley graduated and after that they never talked again, saw each others Snapchat stories occasionally but nothing past that!

5 years after this, Haley was on her way home from work and sent a goofy Snapchat to a friend (this included singing a song and speeding it up, which lead to her singing sounding like the chipmucks…embarrassing, she knows!). When she hit send she realized it did not send to the person she intended it to go to, it sent to the person above her…which was you guessed it..BRETT. Ooops. She was embarrassed in the moment but figured he would open it, laugh at her and just never reply. To her surprise, only a few minutes later Haley had a Snapchat back from Brett. From there they had small talk, catching up since so much time had passed. It was only a day after that Snapchat Haley had asked Brett if he wanted to go to a local bar with some friends she was meeting, to which she also thought he would ignore or say no. To her surprise once again, he agreed, and since that day the rest was history! Brett asked Haley to be his girlfriend on Jan. 26, 2019! Since then, they have built a beautiful little life together. They have 2 dogs; Reba and Roxy, and 3 cats; Kiko, Jethro and Bubba.

Fast forward to Feb. 24th. 2024, when Brett asked Haley to spend forever with him! Brett planned an amazing day for the two of them, a surprise proposal at a photo shoot at the Degener’s river property, a very special place to Brett and Haley. Brett had their friend, Kenzie, and her husband, Dylan, taking the pictures. Haley had her back to Brett for one of the photos, when Haley was told to then turn around and there he was on one knee. As you can imagine, Haley cried and Brett laughed in relief as this was 4 months in the making for him!

They continued their pictures and afterwards headed to dinner at Sunset Overlook where another surprise was waiting for Haley. Brett had planned for all of their close friends and parents/siblings to be there to celebrate the start of their forever together!

Brett and Haley chose The Schleifer Farm for their wedding venue as it fit their love of rustic vibes! Their event was draped with burnt orange hues and beautiful florals. They celebrated their love surrounded by friends and family!