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Look Who’s Engaged & Getting Married
Look Who’s Engaged & Getting Married

Shelby McLean and Adam Crites

By Victoria Klassen ask for their permission to marry
Shelby. They gave their blessing
and Shelby’s grandmother tried on
helby McLean and Adam Crites, the ring—and it briefly got stuck on
Swho are tying the knot on July
her finger.
19, have been friends since middle
school. Adam was classmates with On May 5, Adam and Shelby went
Shelby’s older sister, which is how for a picnic at the farm—an activity
Adam and Shelby met and ended they often enjoy together. Adam
up in the same friend group. The picked up some treats from a local
two always had a strong and playful bakery, packed a cooler with twisted
friendship, and after Shelby moved teas, grabbed the picnic blanket, and
home for a job a couple of years put the ring in his back pocket. The
ago, they began dating in December couple, along with their dog Hank,
2022. enjoyed a picnic in a field of lush
green winter wheat at the back of
“Fourteen years of friendship laid the farm by the creek.
the foundation for the past two and
a half years of being in love,” shared “At this point we’d been living
Adam. together for almost exactly a year,
and we were reminiscing about our
After a trip Adam and Shelby took
time together, sharing moments,
to Jamacia with friends in January and talking about our goals for the
2024, Adam knew he wanted to
future. Narrowly missing a call
propose. He headed straight to from her dad who wanted to know
Pommiers to look at rings. It was the
if she was engaged, Shelby—thank
first piece of jewelry he had bought,
god—didn’t pick up the phone,”
and Pommiers helped him through said Adam. “While talking about
the process. By March, Adam had
our futures, I pulled the ring out of
a one carat marquise cut diamond my back pocket and told Shelby my
on a 14K yellow gold band with a
goal going forward was to spend my
white gold claw.
life with her. I should’ve asked her
Adam had the proposal planned if she even wanted to marry me, but
for May 5, 2024. Spring was in she still agreed that it was a good
bloom, and it was a good time before idea and said yes. Then she called
Adam’s busy season on the dairy her dad to let him know she was
farm. The night before, Adam visited engaged.”
Shelby’s father and grandmother to Continued on page 33