OUR ENGAGEMENT STORY | Tyler + Kaci

[Music] hey guys welcome back to my channel with my fiance tyler beyonce fun fact one day after posting the meet my boyfriend video is when we got engaged so we really uh caught our final opportunity there i feel like there were times in the week where i didn't think i was gonna finish editing that video and you like like looking back now and you were like oh so when's this going up and now i know why so if you saw my vlog the last video i posted basically i vlogged the week leading up to getting engaged and that was something i was planning to do for a long time was to vlog that week obviously not knowing what was coming saturday but like halfway through the week tyler and i were talking and i was telling him i was vlogging and he was like oh so how does it work how long do you film for and so typically when i do a week long video i'll film from monday to friday to show the work week and so i told him i was like yeah i started filming on monday and then i'll keep it going through friday well tyler knew it was coming on saturday and he knew that i would find it really special to have clips from the day so he was trying to find a way to get me to continue filming through the weekend and like subtle inception subtle inception yes like we talked about tyler part of his job he's been working on original worship music and he actually just finished writing his first original worship song that they were set to be playing at the church that sunday and so we were talking about it and i was like oh maybe i should keep it going through the weekend to show that and then i was like yeah but we don't it's not even recorded yet so it's not like i'm gonna be able to include a link or anything like that or like really show you guys and then i was like also we're hanging out with caleb and caitlin on saturday which we'll get to and he's like oh no they won't care like it'll be totally fine they're super chill and i was like i don't know so i was still kind of thinking about it but then if you watch that vlog and i'll have it linked in one of these corners if you haven't friday night we went to dinner with my family and we got back super late and i was just really tired and completely forgot to close out the vlog anyway so i did end up getting some clips on saturday which is really fun because now as we're telling the story of our engagement i'll be able to insert some of those clips as we are talking so so i had been planning on proposing on this date it was may 1st for about a month probably at least and was figuring out exactly how to do it and brainstorm ideas and all that good stuff but the first major moment or first major part of it was having breakfast with casey's dad and so i got uh secretly got her dad's phone number from her brother who i've we spent a lot of time with her family and stuff and they're all really amazing super thankful for them and then i get to be joined in their family um but i didn't want casey to know at all that i was meeting up with her dad so i got his phone number from her brother and then also told him i was like hey can we just keep this between you and me that were getting breakfast and he was like absolutely my lips are sealed and they're spoiling i know so we had breakfast and it was fantastic just me and him and uh it was had some really great conversations and he was very excited that we're gonna be getting engaged and getting married and so it was really encouraging to just see how excited he was and how supportive he was so that was really great so he left for breakfast and about an hour ish after leaving i get a phone call because i'll tell my partner yeah you take it away so basically to kind of set this stage tyler and i had been sure since i would probably say like february that we knew we wanted to get married and we knew our timeline for marriage and also how long we wanted to be engaged and so i was thinking and hoping it would be sometime during the month of may so anyways it was a random thursday and i got a text from my dad and the text said casey you got yourself a really good one with a smiley emoji and a thumbs up and i was freaking out i was so excited i called my mom i facetimed her and she answered the phone by saying why are you so excited and i was like dad just texted me this does that mean they talked did they blah blah and she was at the doctor's office and so she had a mask on and she told me later she was like it's a really good thing i had a mask on because i was not happy with your dad in that moment and the mask concealed that but she played it off super well she was like i'm not at home right now i have no idea what's going on we haven't heard anything from him and the one time she's allowed to say this but she was like i promise you casey i know nothing to the point where i was like oh no i hope he's like planning something like i hope our timeline isn't going to be pushed way back you know and so when my dad sent that text i texted him back and i was like i know but why do you say that and i didn't hear anything back but that's when that's when my phone started ringing and so i answer and casey's dad gary is just like so uh i just texted casey and you know is a casual text just told her that you know she's she found a good one and stuff and uh and then she texted me and she said wait what do you mean and and he was like and then i realized like wait was i not supposed to tell casey and i was like well that's kind of what i meant like i thought that meant like don't tell anybody else i figured that she would know because she's the one you're marrying so she would at least know and i was like no i wanted to be all be a secret for the proposal so in case you want to see it coming i don't know what my dad i think he i think he obviously knew the proposal was a surprise but i think for whatever reason he didn't think it was a secret that they went to breakfast but they came up with a plan so they had another family dinner the night before that casey and i unfortunately were able to make it to because we had youth group that night and so i told him i was like wait what if you just mentioned that uh it came up as a topic of conversation at dinner and so that's what he told her and it worked perfectly well it wasn't great it almost worked too well because they had gone to dinner the night before and it was my family but it was also a couple of my parents friends and one of my aunts and some of my cousins who had recently met tyler and so my dad was just saying we were talking last night and they were all saying how much they really liked tyler and i was bummed because i was like i mean i'm glad they like him but i was like oh so it wasn't what i thought it was and then i saw tyler that dicks i think i brought you lunch at the church and i was like so my dad texted me this and i was all excited because i thought it meant this but it didn't and then like afterwards tyler was like you're like i was trying so hard to just like keep a straight face and you're like oh babe like that's oh that was nice that they said they liked me though whatever yeah that was a really funny conversation it was it was really hard though because casey like i said it worked kind of too well it was really hard to just see her that sad and not break but it was totally worth it because the surprise absolutely paid off so it was great like i said i had been planning and brainstorming for a little while already but at that point after having the official blessing from casey's dad i set it all in motion and started texting everyone and just getting the ball rolling with the exact plan and so one of the first steps in that was making sure that casey had the whole day free of course because i wanted to make the whole day special so i asked my friend caleb and his wife to text casey and i uh to invite us to like a day trip to santa cruz like a day-long double date type of thing and they're a couple that we love and hang out with a lot so uh i'm assuming it felt pretty normal for you to get a text from them it did i was so like i said we already kind of knew our timeline i just told tyler like the only things that were really truly important to me were that like obviously he would talk to my dad which he knew and that wasn't something that i needed to even tell you um but that also there were like a couple of my really close friends that i wanted him to like that i wanted to be a part of it and they had me literally convinced that they knew nothing i feel like i can tell when they're lying and i was 100 convinced they knew nothing so apparently all the people closest to me are much better liars than i thought so all that to say when caleb texted us there was the little thought of could it be something but i was like there's no way it could be because he hasn't talked to anybody yet so it's probably going to be at least a couple more weeks so they sent us that text and we plan to spend the whole day with them up until the friday before the saturday that we got engaged i had them text casey and i and bail but then we had the whole day uh to ourselves so then i was like what do you want to do in santa cruz and trying to once again just make it seem like i didn't have a plan even though i literally had like an itinerary then it was the proposal day yep that was a lot of lead up tonight i show up to pick her up and we make our way down towards santa cruz and we went to pete's to get some matcha for casey because she loves pizza matcha and then we went to a really nice park and did our quiet times together and read our bibles and that's something we enjoyed doing together and being outside and that's something like that i want to be a part of our like the rest of our lives and do that for the rest of our lives so that was a special and meaningful thing for me and i think for casey too and something i knew i wanted to be a part of that day so did that and then once again something else i want to do for a lifetime with casey is eat brunch so we both really love brunch i really love brunch heck yeah it's so good so we went to a fun french spot in los gatos also and then from there went to the winery that i had reservations at and it was really cool up in the santa cruz mountains and with some really cool views and that was just really nice and peaceful and there weren't a ton of people so we kind of had like i was surprised yeah i thought that it would be pretty packed and so that's why i made a reservation way in advance and even on their website when i looked it said that it was like one of the first days they were opening part of their patio and all this stuff and so i thought it'd be packed but it was really nice and peaceful and really quiet and it was great afternoon so from the winery we go to santa cruz and we have a specific spot in santa cruz where we have some really meaningful memories spent some time there although some lady was sitting in our bench and we yeah we couldn't sit on the exact bench yeah we were like maybe she'll leave and she was just like parked out so we went to the bench near it and kind of like stood near the spot but yeah then we're like yeah i don't think she's leaving anytime soon so then came one of my favorite parts of the story because like casey was explaining there was moments where she was a little bit suspecting that it could be the day but i was trying really hard to make her think that it wasn't the day so we're in santa cruz at the special spot and i was like casey this has been an amazing day i'm so glad we got to spend it together you know what would top it off let's make it even better chick-fil-a i'm like chick-fil-a really i love me some chick-fil-a but i was like okay i guess it's not happening then because chick-fil-a is on the way back home so i'm like okay i guess we're going home so let it sit for a minute and then i was like oh you know what actually if we want to do something on the way if you're not hungry yet i know the school lookout point in the santa cruz mountains that's kind of on the way home and my friend showed it to me last weekend and we could go up there for a minute and let's have a little stop kill some time before we go eat dinner before we go to chick-fil-a and that was the point where i was like what would you have said if i was like no i'm really hungry or like i was just praying that you wouldn't so i was like yeah we can stop yeah and so we're driving there and it's kind of in the mount herman area which is like a christian campground in the bay area and i'm seeing signs for that and i was like oh are we like near mount hermon right now and tyler was just playing super dumb you were like i don't know i'm just like i'm trying to remember which turn off logan took and like and i was like okay he doesn't seem to know where we are so um but then we drive to the lookout place and park the car and get out of the car the one giveaway the one giveaway he can't he can't hide you know physiology i guess because i go to give him a hug and his heart is beating so fast so it's like could it be um but then also so tyler has like a fanny pack he normally keeps his are you laughing i love it babe she's used to it he has a fanny pack that normally keeps like his keys and wallet and he doesn't like having them in his pockets um and he left that in the car and he didn't have anything with him so i was like well there's no ring but little did i know he had sent it ahead with some friends so we start walking up the little trail it's like a little trail going up to a lookout point and there's just like pretty grass and wildflowers everywhere big old trees it's a beautiful place there's a really cool cross up there and everything giant wooden cross i had sent some friends up ahead of us and logan was a part of that crew and then jake and sarah and then kirsten and jt who's one of casey's best friends and her husband they all went up ahead of us and they set up some picnic blankets table with flowers and candles and boards yep yeah pictures yeah a picture of us a little sign that says tyler and casey that logan's wife kelsey made really beautiful and then a little bluetooth speaker playing some nice peaceful music the playlist that i put together so we're walking up there there's this wonderful setup casey doesn't know about it yet she might be a little bit like i think his heart was so we're walking up there and as we're getting close i can start to see everything that was set up because i was expecting it and so i saw it up there and so i turned to casey and i said so remember how your dad texted you like a week and a half ago and you got really excited because you thought that it meant that we were meeting up to talk about me proposing and all that good stuff and she was like yeah and i just told her i was like so that was actually exactly what you thought it was and i was like wait really she's like are you serious is this like is this happening like wait wait what and it just totally dumbfounded it seemed like it was really it was really fun she kept stopping as we're walking and i was like come on let's just keep walking she's like wait no seriously is this actually happening guys it's happening i'm like come on let's keep walking let's keep walking and so we keep walking up but i feel like it was really sweet to have that moment because i feel like all my friends who i've talked to and getting engaged say that they like have almost blacked out because it's just like so surreal this moment that you've looked forward to is actually happening and so i feel like it was really sweet to actually have that moment of like this is happening and be able to soak that in a little bit um and like two seconds after you said the thing about my dad i saw the whole setup so it was like oh my goodness this is actually happening and then at that point like after i knew it was already happening i saw our friend marissa pop out out of the tree it um pops out and she's taking pictures and i was just like yes there's gonna be pictures it was so great yeah um so got her to finally walk up there got her to keep walking and there's a cool bench and sat her down on the bench and then next to the bench was a bowl of water so i pulled that out with rose petals in it it was really pretty and i watched casey's feet in it i feel like that's the moment i actually like teared up the most because the rest of it i was just like smiling so much my cheeks hurt but that was like the moment of like this is really happening yeah and able to like really just soak that in it was really special so washed her feet and then i pulled out a note that i had written because i knew i wouldn't be able to just say everything i wanted on the spot and wouldn't have been able to like memorize it because i was just overwhelmed with emotion too so i made sure to write it down so i read her the letter and then at the end of the letter i looked her in the eyes and said casey i love you and it would be my honor to spend the rest of my life with you and then pulled out the ring popped it open and said taking colpacillo will you marry me and i said yes that was actually too the very first time we said i love you because we had been talking probably back in february and knew that we meant that and knew that we wanted to say that but we knew that when we said those words we wanted to truly truly mean them and that while we knew that we meant them and felt that emotion that love is not just a feeling but it's also a commitment and a choice and i had told tyler the story about one of my best friends who her husband when they were dating he waited till he proposed to say i love you because he only wanted to say i love you to his wife which was the same for you wanted to be able to put the commitment behind that and like say i'm not just saying that i love you but i'm literally committing myself to you for life and so there were so many times leading up to getting engaged that we wanted to say it and so many times we almost slipped up and said it but it was really really special to be able to say those words for the first time in that moment and then for seconds later for him to get down on one knee and ask me to spend the rest of my life with him it was the most magical moment ever we actually had a friend record the whole thing and so we'll insert a clip of that [Music] taking now together wow [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] wow so casey had just said yes and we're in this euphoric moment and another little part that i had planned was for two of casey's best friends who don't live in the area one of them lives in l.a and another one lives in germany so part of the plan was to have them even though they're far away to still be a part of it somehow so they were both on facetime watching the whole time which casey had no idea so right after she said yes we were completely ecstatic and to top it off i was like do you want to say hi to heather and kelly and she was lit up and she was like wait what and i was like yeah they're on facetime right over there so kirsten another one of my best friends had them on facetime and i was just like what like i was shook [Laughter] literally it was 3 a.m for heather in germany she stayed up until 3 a.m with two little kids that she has to be able to be there for that moment so basically from there we are just celebrating the moment we popped some champagne with the friends who are there with us and then we ended up going into like the little meadow area to take pictures with marissa i'll insert a couple here she is incredible i'll also have her linked below but she took beautiful beautiful pictures of us which i will literally cherish for forever and then tyler was like well we actually have dinner reservations with these couple friends who are here so we're gonna head out to that now and we get in the car and we start driving that's like we should facetime my parents and tyler was like um well do you want to facetime them now or like maybe after dinner and i'm like why can't i just facetime them now and then i'm like well how like are we really close to dinner and he's like no it's a little bit of a drive but like i don't know maybe it'd be kind of nice to just like enjoy this time us or whatever and at that moment i was like my parents are for sure gonna be at dinner so i was like there's no way he would be trying to get me to not facetime them but it's probably part of the surprise so in my head i'm like there's these couple friends and my parents are for sure gonna be at dinner like my family um but so we're driving we're engaged and there's a little bit of a drive from santa cruz the 17 highway if you know the area and so after we had been in the car for like maybe 20 minutes or so tyler was like well i'm actually going to have you put a blindfold on because i don't want you to know what restaurant we're going to and so we just bought a box of the disposable face masks earlier in the day because he forgot his and so he grabbed him out of the box and literally put like the face mask over my face as a blindfold which she got a picture of um so we're in the car casey's blindfolded and she thinks we're going to there which we were but meanwhile this was going on five minutes away uh casey's blindfolded and so we're hoping to get casey out in front get her out close enough to here and then chris is going to kind of lead us all and we're just going to yell i think just as he takes her blindfold off her to say better so we pull up i have no idea where we are i'm thinking we just like got to the parking lot of some restaurant then he walks me blindfolded a couple steps and here's what happened ready three two [Applause] [Music] [Applause] one [Music] thank you [Applause] another dry eye in my face the house maybe [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] come here hello she said yes by the way evan you asked i didn't get a chance to text you back yet i literally cannot even explain that moment of tyler pulling the blindfold off my eyes it was probably like right behind the actual proposal the most like overwhelmingly special moment of my life and not even just special but just like feeling so overwhelmingly loved in that moment of having like that realization instantly that tyler had been coordinating with every single one of these people and that he had worked with our friends charles and kristen to plan this entire engagement party with so many of the people that we love and care about so much and they did an amazing job i obviously knew the party was happening but even just showing up and seeing it i wasn't blindfolded but just being there seeing it all seeing all these people was incredible and i was totally just blown away even just pulling up and seeing it all and seeing so many people we love there to celebrate us and support us and be there for us and so it was amazing so thanks so much for the homers for hosting and putting together an amazing party for us too it was truly like a night we will never forget so one thing that i knew would be really special to casey and i wanted and was really special to me was to have casey's dad pray over us at the engagement party also and so i asked him to do that while we were having breakfast the previous week and so he wrote out a really really meaningful and just impactful prayer that he read and prayed over us that evening and we have a little video of that let's uh let's all pray thank you father for this glorious day you have given us not only have you given us life and breath but today we also rejoice in the impending marriage of casey and tyler you know only so well the number of prayers that have come before your throne that have been a seed for the harvest that we are here today to celebrate there is no way any of us can know the wise and wherefores that have transpired to bring us to this day the timing is yours not ours i know that you're faithful and true to answer prayers as we stand here uh as witness to the engaged couple casey and tyler i also believe that your hand of blessing will remain on them as they walk before you in faithful obedience to your word and your leading one day in the not so distant future the harvest that you brought in casey and tyler will further flower before you as the exchange files of marriage lord i thank you for all of us gathered here today a special thanks goes out to the homers who have opened their home to us today may your blessing be upon them for their kindness and for those who gave of their time and resources to bring food and drink to enjoy as we celebrate casey and tyler may your holy spirit move amongst us to season our conversation and add a holy saver to the atmosphere in jesus name here's cheers towards a marriage that will mirror god's love for us uh in its depth and its breadth and this is extravagance so here's to tyler and casey special thing like literally ever for many reasons one because next to uh the woman of my dreams right here very very excited to marry her so distant future the rest of my life with her once we make those vows and i'm so honored to have each one of you here with us tonight i was talking to my dad of course a couple minutes ago and he was just saying um you can tell a lot about people by the people that they surround themselves with and he was just saying how all of you are absolutely incredible and casey and i 100 agree and we love all of you so so much and are so thankful that you're all here to celebrate with us um coming from near and far and it's just seriously an honor and we are completely overjoyed and just can't even take it all in right now because it's so just crazy but we're so so excited so glad you're here to celebrate with us and can't wait to uh see you at the next [Applause] one so that's our engagement story it was literally the most special day of our lives so far and it was actually really funny because i was talking to a friend yesterday and telling her the whole story and so i was just telling my friend it was so crazy to realize that here i was worried that tyler hadn't even talked to like two of my closest friends and knowing his character and knowing that he wanted to make it so special for me so knowing in my head that he was going to but at the same time feeling like well they don't know anything like he hasn't talked to them like is he going to and my friend who i was telling this story to just pointed out a really cool parallel and saying that's sort of how it is with god that we worry like well what about this gun are you going to have this in control or whatever like are you going to like do you see my heart do you know what i want and do you know that this thing over here really matters to me and we're worried and we're trying to take control and we're like but god what about this what about this and he's just saying to us do you trust me do you know my character and he doesn't assure us by saying well actually here's exactly what the plan is going to be and here's how it's going to unfold he directs us by saying like do you know my character do you trust me and then when we actually see his plan unfold it is literally 10 million times better than anything that we could have thought up on our own like here i was stressing out like oh no like he hasn't talked to like you know a handful of my closest friends yet and little did i know tyler was literally coordinating with like so many of our closest friends with our family tyler's parents flew in from san diego to get to be there friends and mentors from our church community like he was literally planning with all of it the friend kelly who was on facetime she was actually there at the party there was a moment when i realized that she literally drove up from la which is like an eight-hour drive and back to la in the same day he had another one of my friends fly in from la and she was telling me afterwards because it was her first time getting to meet tyler even though she's heard obviously a ton about him and she was like case he was like can i help you with any of your travel arrangements like just like so thoughtful and intentional and so i just thought it was really cool that my friend pointed out that parallel because not only is it a parallel for our actual engagement story and for how he proposed in just that whole day but i think for me personally it's also a parallel for what it's looked like for me and waiting for this and then waiting for tyler because if you've watched my videos for a while you know that i've had a lot of videos on singleness and i am going to start crying there was many years of waiting and there were so many moments in that i was like god like do you even care about like what i want and like do you see that and do you see these desires of my heart and god obviously never laid out for me like here's when it's gonna happen and here's who it's gonna be and here's what it's gonna look like but continually in those years of waiting just you know continue to show me more of his character and of who he is and that he loves me and he knows my heart and that he created me and continually asked me to trust him and sort of like that moment of tyler removing the blindfold that moment of that blindfold coming off of me getting to see the plan that he actually had all along that in all those days of discouragement he saw this day i think that was a really crazy thought for me to have like as the engagement day was happening and i was just standing and like literally this overwhelming joy it was crazy for me to have that thought of like god saw this day because he stands outside of time he saw this day and even stood in this day in all those moments of discouragement for me and and for you too um he knew what was coming and so it just sort of felt like that blindfold moment like what actually happened at our engagement party where it was just like this overwhelming feeling of like oh my goodness this is what's been being planned this entire time and i feel like that's just also a parallel for our relationship in and of itself and him bringing you into my life of i couldn't see it that whole time but there's that moment of it being unveiled and seeing what god was doing what god was planning what god was preparing the whole time um and it was always it was always you and it was always good even when i couldn't see it and even when i doubted me when i was discouraged it was just a really special day and very meaningful for both of us and i think it was just we can't neither of us can imagine or a perfect day so super thankful for each other super thankful for god just orchestrating at all i just want to always keep him at the center because that's just what's going to lead to what's best anyway and it's all for his glory so i love you i love you i love you we can say it now now we don't stop saying it um also i wanted to let you know that i did do a blog post sharing our story as well and then i included all of the photos that marissa took as well as pictures that some of our friends took and just snippets throughout the day so i'll have that linked below if you want to check that out i hope you enjoyed this video thank you so much for listening to our engagement story something that's so special to us i will see you in my next video bye

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Length: 33min 24sec (2004 seconds)

Published: Sat May 15 2021