The Basics

Courtney and John are getting married on July 4, 2009 on the Forster family farm (where John's parents now live) in the township of Nelson, Wisconsin.

Most of you are coming from afar (as are we) -- and we want to make that as easy as possible for you -- so we figured we should establish a central place you can come to learn more about our plans as they solidify.

We'll have more info soon on important stuff like lodging.

Ring

For the proposal back in May, John picked out an amazing color-change sapphire, and had it put in a temporary setting. We then designed the final product together, with the help of the awesome and very talented Shelly at Greenlake Jewelry Works.

Here are some pics of Courtney's original sketches, the wax model, and how the ring finally turned out.