The Bride
Rachael Camille Garrett has attended a couple years at BYU studying music education and vocal performance. Born and raised in Dallas, Rachael has an angelic voice and loves children. She directed her church choir, and performed in a full-length musical production in Salt Lake. She’s a great bargain shopper and has an infectious smile and great dimples.

The Groom
Daniel Frederick Lippmann is graduating this semester from BYU with a major in Spanish literature and a minor in Business Management. He took the LSAT in October and is sending off all of his applications to law schools. He went to the Bolivia-Cochabamba Mission, and loves Don Quixote. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Daniel loves mountain biking with his dad and playing basketball or rooting for his all-time favorite team, the Phoenix Suns.

The first encounter
Daniel went over to a friend’s house to pay a visit. His friend was in the BYU Concert Choir and had just produced a photo directory for the choir. She was so proud about it and wanted immediate approval from Daniel. He thumbed through it slowly looking to appease his good friend. Perusing the black and white pages of thumbnail sized pictures, he found something that struck his eye, a girl with dark hair with an elegant neck and a cute smile. Daniel wasted no time in asking his friend who this has. She promptly replied, “Rachael, oh yeah, she’s awesome.” He responded, “Set me up.” In the ensuing days the friend talked him up to Rachael, and Daniel received the coveted cell phone number.

He called exactly when she was about to be blown up with rockets playing a friendly game of Halo. The conversation was brief, the directions were given, a time was set. Saturday, October 9, 2004, 6pm. The wingman was his roommate with his date. Daniel went to the door answered by her grandma; confused he asked, “Does Rachael live here?” At that instant, Rachael came bounding around and got a first glimpse of her date. They had steak at an argentine restaurant, went to a comedy show on campus, and ended the evening with some plasma grenades and pistol welding fun at his apartment and the Xbox. Both were impressed; a second, a third and a forth date spontaneously were arranged within the next week. A relationship was formed and it thrived for the next ten months.

The proposal
Flashback to Tiquipaya, Bolivia. Daniel, a missionary for the church, decided to make his future wedding bands out of Bolivian gold. He became friends with a jewelerwho hand made his merchandise at home. Daniel bought the gold flakesstraight from the mines and went to workwith his friend. He smelted the gold and purified it and eventually made it into the two rings that they will be worn on their right hands to follow Bolivian tradition.

August 2005, the rock was added and a plan was conceived for its deliverance. Rachael helped Daniel form a playlist of romantic dancing music on his iPod. Little did she know that this was part of an intricately planned proposal. They got massages, and then some Italian food. They went to watch the sunset in the mountains of Provo. Then they went to another outlook when Daniel commenced a story about a man whom he had befriended. The music was playing on the previously formed playlist, they were dancing under the stars and the knee was one minute from dropping when Rachael got spooked by another vehicle. She suggested to leave, Daniel conceded and stopped the story that he was going to tell about the jeweler. The hour ride back was excruciating for Daniel. He was now left to go with plan C, which hadn’t been formed as of yet. However, he had a stroke of genius in this his moment of anguish. A bridge over a small creek surrounded by trees was just in the back of their apartment complex. He finished the story by telling her that he made something with this man that he saved for somebody special. “Rachael,” he said, “you are that special person,” and on one knee Daniel showed Rachael what he had made in Bolivia. The ring literally lit up, the box had a little light inside, Rachael dropped everything in her hands and went down to hug her future husband and said yes eight different times. Hand in hand they went to plan their new life together, hoping to live happily ever after.