The story so far

It happens on the sixth

Chapter one · how we met

⟨How the two of us met, and the years that led here, is the chapter we’ll fill in soon.⟩

Chapter two · the proposal

It was a Wednesday evening at home, August 6, 2025. Mason and Raelynn were at the table, a board game going, and Sheldon had been holding back tiles all night. Then he laid them down.

She said yes.

Danielle and Sheldon standing together at the edge of Lake Ontario at golden hour
Lake Ontario, in summer lightPhotography by Rich Paprocki

We got engaged on the sixth of August. We’re marrying on the sixth of February, eighteen months to the day.

Chapter three begins on the sixth of February.