Brady & Tavy
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Written by Kati Hime, Photography by BHP Imaging
T
avy and Brady were joined in marriage after two
years of long-distance dating and a whirlwind
engagement with one word serving as ongoing
inspiration…’unique.’ Looking at their pictures from the
day, it’s clear that the other word that naturally joined it
was ‘emotional.’
“We met like most students at the University of Wyoming
do, at a party through mutual friends,” Tavy explains. “I
had been invited by one of my bridesmaids to tag along
that night. Shortly after arriving we were thrown into a
game of categories, and my lucky seat was right beside
Brady. Stacked up against four large men, the two of us had
very few odds of winning the game; we did however have
one thing in our arsenal – girlish charm.” After a few short
minutes Tavy had Brady ‘hook, line and sinker.’ “Brady
told me later my success in the game partially revolved
around the fact that I had commented on his truck,” Tavy
adds. “Long story short, I had just met the man I was
20
going to spend the rest of my life with…even though he
mispronounced my name for the first three dates.”
After Brady’s graduation, he moved to Rawlins to work for
Kinder Morgan, and Tavy remained a UW student. The
two kept up their long distance romance for the next two
years, Tavy traveling endlessly to Rawlins to visit Brady.
“After those two years we’ve come to assume that if you
can make it that long being apart, everything else seems
insignificant. In 2012, after two years of driving endlessly
I graduated college and moved to Rawlins.”
It was Christmas Eve of 2013, and Tavy and Brady’s families
had both gathered to celebrate the holiday. “In the middle of
cooking, Brady pulled me into the middle of the kitchen and
asked if he could have everyone’s attention,” Tavy says. “He
was nervous and red so I began to expect what was to follow.
He got down on one knee, but