Trish & Steve in Paola, KS

When Trish and Steve met at a local country bar, the two were living on opposite ends of the spectrum: he was a self-proclaimed bachelor and she a mother of two boys. They hit it off right away, though, and a proposal came a year-and-a-half later. The Bride Trish Finnell, 26, stay-at-home mom The Groom Steve Meyer, 34, contractor The Date April 21 For the proposal, Steve had secretly bought the “out of their price range” ring that Trish had fallen in love with. When he kneeled down in the restaurant, Trish, not understanding what was happening, told him to get up. And that’s when he pulled out the ring and proposed. “I jumped up and started shouting, ‘It’s my ring!’” Trish says. “He asked me if that was a yes, and I said ‘yes!’”