Jeff & Adrian’s Yorkton Wedding -St Mary’s Cultural Center

It is definitely hard making any plans for your wedding right now with this Covid pandemic going on. The guys had planned on 30 guests for dinner at the hall, then a week before the Covid restrictions cancelled that, so plan B, meet at a restaurant. It doesn’t make sense to me that they can’t eat together with their bubble at a hall that is spaced out at 6 feet, but 4 different family can eat together at a restaurant. Go figure, but happy that the guys were able to do that to celebrate with their 30 guests.

What a day it was, these guys and their wedding party were soooo much fun to work with. Taking photos of Jeff & Adrian was so emotional, the love between them jumps out in the photos captured. It was our honor to be part of their special day. Here’s a few from their wedding day, enjoy!

Groom’s Tuxedo’s Store Purchased at: Alexander’s Men’s Wear (both grooms): Yorkton, SK

Floral/Boutonniere Designer Co: Stephanie with All About Flowers: Yorkton

Band or DJ: Garth from ‘Saddles and Steel’: Yorkton, SK

Wedding Cake/Cup cakes: Tanya Riabko making cupcakes – private citizen/civilian

Decorator: Brittany Johnson with “Circle The Date Wedding and Event Planning“: Yorkton, SK

Ceremony Officiate Jen Dresser (St. Andrew’s United Church)

Venue: St Mary’s Culture Center: Yorkton

Photography: Carol’s Photography : Regina & Yorkton

Their LOVE Story!!!

Jeff: Adrian and I initially met thanks to the magic of an online dating website. We were both a bit apprehensive (thanks to the horrors of online dating websites) and were quite relieved to find that we had great chemistry and the ability to alienate our friends during casual conversations by referencing pop culture the two of us knew intimately.

Adrian: I met Jeff in the summer of 2017 on a dating website. Normally you would meet guys who are nice but have nothing in common, or jerks who want a one-night stand and are secretly married. Thankfully one day I stumbled upon a gentleman and noticed he was around my age and lived fairly close by (and was quite handsome I might add ). I believe I had started the message game rolling by asking him If he had “ever went to Yorkton Regional high school?” he replied “no” but was still interested in further conversation – especially when I let slip that I was a fan of classic Simpsons shows. We would go on to message each other until we decided to exchange numbers and graduated to phone calls. We touched base on careers, hobbies, family life and of course ‘hilarious Simpsons trivia’

Jeff: Our first date was a supper at “Mr. Mike’s” in Yorkton where I marveled at his hilarious tuxedo t-shirt and he marveled at my ability to involuntarily cover my mouth whenever I found something funny. We continued to see each other on a regular basis, soon meeting each other’s friends and sharing more and more of our interests. We spent many dates together enjoying the Gallagher center water park, the gyms of Yorkton and the highways of Saskatchewan (when visiting friends and family). We learned that Adrian and I had many interests in common (Simpsons, retro gaming, absurdist humour) and many interests unique to each other as well. Adrian was involved in a drama group in Kamsack and I was involved with choir at my United Church and public speaking groups.

Adrian – Our first date happened at Mr Mike’s in Yorkton and I remember thinking to myself that I was unusually pale, skinny and jittery at this time (having recently finished an extended hospital stay for a Crohn’s flare up and having drank an unusually large amount of coffee that day). First impression about Jeff was that he was a well-kept attractive man that had a very charming boy-next-door personality about him. Conversation flowed easily – we didn’t have any awkward pauses during our time spent and he had this adorable shy giggle every time I made him laugh. After the meal he trusted me enough to show me his array of movies/games/and comics that we could both bond over.

Over the next few months we had thrilling travels where we enjoyed the conversation during on the road as much as the destinations. We visited a trampoline park, water slides, had movie theater evenings in Saskatoon/Regina and multiple gym visits. We got even closer as he would go to my drama productions, while I would go to his choir presentations, toast master classes and the odd Pokemon-Go raid. I Introduced him to laughably bad movies and population demography trivia and he would show me some animated cartoon hilarity and just how much he enjoyed electronic bookkeeping.

The moment it crystalized in my head to marry Jeff was during our visit to my sister and brother in law in Kelowna in early March 2018. We had a fantastic time hiking and wine tasting and it was our first real taste of how life could be living together.

Jeff – After a little over two years of dating Adrian, I began to discuss with him the idea of getting married – it seemed not a question of ‘if’ but only ‘when’. Inspiration hit in the fall of 2019 when walking through a ‘jewelry and trophy shop’ in Yorkton that had announced it was closing. I had always wanted to commission some custom trophies, and this seemed a great opportunity. Working with their team I was all set for an upcoming gaming night at a friend Leanne’s house – the organizer of which was a fellow drama enthusiast and long-time friend of Adrian’s. I told her I wanted to propose to Adrian during the gaming evening; she was enormously excited and couldn’t wait to see it happen so we arranged it for the evening of October 5th.

Coming to the gaming evening with a box of trophies and Adrian in tow we proceeded to have an enjoyable start to the games, all the while tension building in my head as I knew the ‘key moment’ was coming. I excused myself from the room and stealthily arranged for a guest to hold my cell phone and record video of the next few minutes of gaming. Heart pounding in my chest we began to play a few rounds of the game “Catchphrase”. At the pre-planned time my partner-in-crime Leanne began giving our team clues:

“Sentence you would say to someone you loved”

“Something single people dating would surprise the other with”

I motioned the game to pause, then asked Adrian to remove a specially wrapped trophy from the bottom of the box we’d brought. With an excited grin on Leanne’s face, a cell phone subtly recording in the background and a look of apprehension on Adrian’s face he retrieved it and carefully unwrapped the trophy. A clear crystal spire with the award “Most likely to be asked a life-changing question tonight” and an image of a wedding ring was presented in view of the crowd as I dropped to one knee and asked Adrian to marry me.

He said yes, and the terror in my chest was replaced with an enormous joy (and strangely we didn’t end up playing any more “Catchphrase” after that…). It is with great pleasure that we look towards April 24th, 2021 as the day our lives publicly become committed to each other.

Adrian – On October 5th 2019 I had no idea the proposal was coming until he took a knee while we were playing ‘Catchphrase’ at Leanne and Paul’s house. I tried playing it off as cool and nonchalant but I was definitely stricken with “the feels”, the spontaneity and the creative way he planned this out. I absolutely had to say “yes”! Jeff later pointed out to me that he had inserted a hidden message into texts sent in the days leading up to the proposal, where the first letter of each sentence (when combined) spelled out “WILL YOU MARRY ME”
Meeting Jeff Possberg is beyond a blessing. The beginning of 2017 I thought for sure I would be single for life and I was even doubting whether I can even click with anybody. I definitely have found the man of my dreams and my soul mate, and am 100 percent stoked on what the future will bring!