My In-Laws Proposal Story | Whitney Beth Photography | SLC Family Photographer
 

Who's a fan of cute, happy things? I'm holding my self appointed family historian title very seriously and thought we were due for another story. This time, I'm recording how my wonderful in-laws, Charles (Chuck) and Kathleen Robbins became engaged. 

My father in law is from Moses Lake, WA and my mother in law was born in California, but grew up in Provo, UT. They met in passing for the first time while they were both serving a mission in Scotland. They didn't start dating until they had both returned home and met again in Utah. 

Mom and Dad dated for a whole summer. Soon it was nearing when Chuck would have to go back to Washington and Kathleen had already started school at BYU. With only a few days left of their time together, they decided they needed to pray and fast about their future. Mom went to school the next day, and fasted the whole time. She was in a cooking class and her professor had a lab for them to do. Since she was fasting, she couldn't eat what they had made - that made her professor upset, but it all worked out. It came to be that there was a lady who was auditing their class, so mom was able to give her her lab to try. That evening they drove up to where the Provo Temple would eventually be in Dad's 1954 Ford, (That Chuck and his dad had bought brand new off the show room floor) and said a prayer. While asking mom to tell me the story, she said it best in response to their prayer, "It was like nothing I'd felt for a long, long, time. I knew this was right." 

After their date, when Chuck was bringing Kathleen home, they were parked and sitting in the car outside the house. Chuck asked Mom if she'd marry him, "She said, 'yes', and I was so happy that she said yes! 'Cause I don't know, if she'd had said no, I'd ask her again." Then Dad gave her the ring and she put it on. 

Dad had to return to Washington to finish school, so they had a long distance engagement. Chuck came back for Christmas and they spent the holidays addressing wedding invitations since they were getting married in the Salt Lake Temple on the 18th of February. 

The same man who sent Dad on his mission, bro Richards, is the same man who ended up marrying them. A piece of wedding advice that he gave Chuck before they were wed was, "When your wife fixes burnt toast for you, you tell her that's just the way you like it!"

I love these two so much and am so blessed to call them mom and dad. They have always made me feel welcome and like I've always been part of the family. I'm so thankful they let me tell their proposal story. Love you both!