I tend to believe that things are meant to be.  When COVID first hit China, Adam was a missionary serving in neighboring Mongolia.  Mongolia was one of the first countries to shut down, so all the missionaries were emergency transferred back to their home countries.  Adam was notified that he was being sent to Idaho, a call he was not very thrilled about. And yet, it was there that he met a beautiful sister missionary, his now-wife Hannah.  

I remember him talking about her a lot when they both got home from their missions. With his BYU-Provo classes all online during the lingering pandemic, Adam decided to join our sister Olivia in Hawaii for seven months. Hannah spent a week with him there, and shortly thereafter he invited her to stay with my family in Arizona. My whole family adored her.  They were a great match.  So when he dropped her back off at the airport and told us he was going to break it off with her,  we all thought, What are you thinking?!  She was ready to commit, but he was not.  We understood how challenging it would be with her living in Idaho and him moving to Utah, but we were still all so disappointed.

A year later in 2022, the dad took the boys on a trip to Alaska. As they put it, not two hours after Adam spoke about how badly he had messed up by ending things with Hannah, then he got a notification that Hannah re-followed him on Instagram. Apparently he spent hours the next few days of the trip on the phone with her.  

She moved to Utah the following fall.  With things getting serious, my parents decided to invite her on the family cruise.  There Adam proposed.  

They got married in the Bountiful, Utah temple on 2/25/23.  The day prior they held a groom's dinner at the Brick Oven pizza restaurant in Provo.  Members of her family spoke, as did my dad and youngest brother Eric. Eric teased Adam for thinking he had a photographic memory when he was a kid and read 15-year-old quotes from my blog about his and Adam's close relationship. 

February 25 was a beautiful sunny day with the snow glistening brightly on the mountain.  We took pictures outside the temple, and then a few hours later we met back up at the venue in Provo to set up.  

 A ring ceremony was held in which Adam's mission president spoke and Adam and Hannah exchanged vows.  Then was the reception. My mom and Olivia made a giant charcuterie board, and Olivia made the wedding cake.  There was a huge turnout -- just on the Lundgreen side of the family alone were more of my dad's cousins than have been together in years! There were all the wedding classics, plus some -- cutting the cake, mother-son dance, father-daughter dance (featuring Napoleon Dynamite choreography Hannah's dad taught her when she was 5), the shoe game, bridesmaids fighting over the bouquet, and lastly, a sparkler exit sending our newlyweds off to the Bahamas.