We’re Getting Married

Kinley
&
Graydon

Saturday, December 30, 2023

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California Reception

December 30, 2023

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

The Toupin Home
10341 Herb Road
Windsor, CA 95492

Utah Reception

January 20, 2024

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Emerald Eve
192 Main Street
Salem, UT 84563

Our Story

In April of 2022, Graydon was serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Foothill Park Wark (Kinley’s home ward) in the Santa Rosa, California mission. Kinley was still at school at BYU and Graydon was teaching multiple people in the Hartman home on a weekly basis.

At the conclusion of her semester, Kinley moved home for the summer. At a service project on the Kashia reservation, Kinley and Elder Martinez met for the first time. They didn’t speak at this project, but soon became friends as he continued to teach lessons to friends in the Hartman home.

Nearing the end of his mission, Elder Martinez was registering for BYU classes for the Fall semester and because Kinley had been a peer mentor for 3 years, she offered to help him. They registered for a Book of Mormon class together and looked forward to continuing to be friends at school.

Graydon finished his mission and went home for the last 2 weeks of summer. The weekend before the semester started, Kinley, Maddie and Mama Hartman went to Graydon’s homecoming in Provo and spent time with him and his family.

The semester started at the end of August. Between their Book of Mormon class together and Graydon’s introduction into Kinley and Maddie’s friend group, Graydon and Kinley saw each other every day.

One day in the library, Graydon asked Kinley on a date. The date was postponed for weeks but when they finally scheduled it, it was for the evening of October 15th. On the date, Graydon took Kinley to the temple (lol) for a picnic. The date was great! They became better friends, but that was all.

In the next few weeks, Kinley decided they’d be better off just as friends. Then, Kinley and Graydon went on dates with other people. They still continued to go to concerts, movies, football games, parties, movie night, and study groups together within their friend group. Kinley’s dad told her, “If you’re hanging out with the same boy everyday, you’re going to end up marrying him”.

Through the end of November and most of December, Kinley and Graydon were not as close of friends as they had been. However, a couple weeks into Winter semester, Kinley and Graydon started hanging out as friends again. They revisited conversations about their friendship and what a relationship could look like. They both individually prayed about whether or not they could be happy with one another in a relationship and felt an overwhelming sense of peace. So, they decided to go on another date…and the rest is history…or happily ever after 🙂

“The Proposal”

Kinley and Graydon were spending the summer apart from one another. At the end of June, Kinley’s family made their annual trip out to Malad, Idaho to visit Grandma and Grandpa Price on the farm. Graydon joined the family for this trip! They were so excited to celebrate the 4th of July together in Malad! They did all kinds of fun things on this trip. They branded cows, swam in the springs, went to a street dance, cooked dinner for the family, and decided to perform in a town wide talent show on July 3rd.

On the morning of July 4th, Kinley and Graydon and the family went to town for the Malad parade. Following the parade they did a bunch of fun 4th of July celebrations in town and at grandma and grandpa’s.

Later in the evening they went back to town to watch Malad’s Got Talent and then packed up to go to the fairgrounds to watch the fireworks. Before going to the fairgrounds, Kinley, Graydon and Craig (Kinley’s dad) went back to the house to pick up grandma and grandpa to come to the firework show!

Upon arriving back at the fairgrounds, Amber (Kinley’s mom) told Graydon and Kinley to sit on the grass so their cousin could take pictures of them for their scrapbooks. Sitting watching the firework show, Graydon made a couple jokes (to make Kinley laugh to calm his nerves), asked her if she loved him and proceeded to pull out a large box.

Kinley had NO IDEA he was going to ask her then! With tears in her eyes and a happy heart, Kinley said yes! They hugged and kissed and the family cheered for them! Graydon’s family had made the drive from Provo to Malad that night as well so they could be there for this night and both of Kinley’s grandparents and extended family were able to be there for them too!