Keely & Ritchie Biggs
March 25, 2017
Story By SHELBI LEMEILLEUR
Photos by JEN BRAZEAL
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very date Keely and Ritchie Biggs have ever gone on
has ended either with family, friends, or both. Their
friends and family have always played a huge part in their
relationship, especially when it came to their engagement
and wedding.
Keely Gibson met Ritchie Biggs in December 2013 while
at lunch with a coworker, although Keely says she doesn’t
remember interacting much with Ritchie. Ritchie asked time
and time again to see Keely a second time, and finally the couple
went on a double date shortly after Valentine’s Day in 2014.
“We completely hit it off,” Keely says. “We sang and danced
and hit it off like I had known him forever. It was never
awkward, never pressured – things just flowed.”
After dating for two and a half years, Ritchie planned the
perfect proposal for Keely. The night before he was going to
leave town for work, Ritchie took Keely to Madden’s for a date
night, with plans to meet friends at the Proudest Monkey at the
end of the night. Taking a few detours after dinner, the couple
stopped in front of the Queen.
“I look up and the marque says ‘Keely and Ritchie February
20, 2014; Keely and Ritchie July 21, 2016,’ and on the bottom,
it says, ‘Will you marry me? – Ritchie,’” Keely says. “And I turn
around, and he’s on one knee and I am bawling saying ‘Oh my
gosh!’ over and over again.”
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