May 24, 2008
Photography by Dan Hixson Photography
by briana stewart
Megan Brockbank and Derek Welling know what it means to “meet cute.”’
A year after the pair had crushes from afar (Megan had a boyfriend when they first met), Derek showed up to her apartment door with a plate of homemade brownies in hand. (Yes, homemade.)
“He needed an excuse to ask me out,” says Megan, a Spanish Fork native. “But it wasn’t the brownies that won me over. It was his cute smile.”
That memorable grin took Megan to a lunch date at Guru’s, and it’s what Megan affectionately likes to call their “last first date.”
Naturally, the “meet cute” led to a cute engagement. Wanting her to remember the “little things” that brought them together, Derek was ready with small surprises for the big moment. First, they returned to the scene of their love story’s beginning and ate lunch at Guru’s. And later, Derek offered her a brownie once again — and again and again.
“I told him I didn’t want one, so he asked me again, and I told him I was sure I didn’t want one,” Megan recalls. “And he said, ‘I think you do.’”
So Megan suspiciously obliged. She lifted the top brownie, only to find a hidden engagement ring amidst the pile of homemade chocolate confections.
“He held the ring in his hand, got down on one knee and asked me to marry him,” Megan says. “It was a wish come true.”
Vendor list
Dress
Latter-Day Bride
Bridals
Taken At
Thanksgiving Point
Flowers
White Willow
Rings
Payne Diamonds
