Alex Nelson & Olive LoGrasso

Gifts?

Seriously, your presence is the biggest gift. We are not doing a registry, but if you wish to give us a small gift, you can pick:

Donations to one of our local non-profits (pick one, or both, your choice):

• Prairie Rivers Network advocates and works toward ecological restoration, focusing on waterways.

Donate to Prairie Rivers Network here.

• Midwest SOARRING Foundation educates the public about indigenous issues and focuses on uplifting and supporting indigenous communities.

Donate to Midwest SOARRING here.

• Alternatively, you can contribute to our home-buying fund: Honeyfund

Or, just bring your lovely self (this is all we really ask)!

and maybe tell Olive they did a good job on the website. the illustrations are theirs. thank you in advance.

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Our Story

We met in the Colorado State University Plant Diagnostic Clinic in 2023, and now we're getting married. It's really cute.

Olive: I met Alex at a weird time. For both of us, I think. We were both in some big life-shift times. We went on dates, pretended it was friendly. Alex was a delight to have around. We connected deeply on our views of the world, on relationships, on interests, on what it means to be a good human, what it means to love unconditionally. Plants are cool. I wanted to be her pot. Give her space to grow. We outgrew our pot, and our patio, and decided on something: let's just move across the country, why not?

There's something about a cross-country move that teaches you about a person, and a relationship. When that person makes it feel easier, not harder, that's green confetti. Alex is verdant confetti. And umber hair. I digress-

There's something about breaking your back, handling layoffs, adopting kittens, sharing meals, tending a garden, and becoming more of who you are with a person that makes you... know you can spend your life with them? I proposed three times. Not because Alex said no, but because I liked hearing the yes, and echoing it back. And because we upgraded from silicone rings to gold plated rings. That too.

I get to watch Alex lay down roots in this world. She reaches, and touches, and learns the environment like she was meant to do it. The same way she did with me. Through pain, loss, expansion, communion, intention, and growth. We love patiently. The sun isn't promised to rise tomorrow, but I'll still wake up next to you. I am excited to celebrate our love with you all, with goats, with good food, with flowers, at the place that convinced us to move to the cornfields and prairie of rural Illinois. Now, passing the mic to Alex-

Alex: Alex here! Olive got the story right. Now it’s my turn.

How do you express a love that feels too big for words to hold? I don’t know. I’ll try my best.

This is a love that feels like gratitude, like freedom, like emergence, like spring, like discovery, like wild strawberries and coreopsis and prairie smoke and columbine and asters (just to name a few).

What do you say to the person who holds a mirror up to your soul and holds your hand while you face what you see? You say, “thank you.”

What do you say to the person that can see the world with immense clarity and nuance and clearly articulate it? You say, “well shit, you make a good point.”

What do you say to the person who holds so much love in their heart for animals and plants and people and the world? You say, “gee, you’re so cute.”

What do you say when this person asks you to marry them? You say, “yes.”

What a joy it will be to share a lifetime with a person who spends their days learning and dreaming and playing and planting seeds.

What an honor it is to be trusted with their pain and worry and grief.

What a gift it is to love them.