Saturday, October 7, 2017, the sun came out and the football team traveled to their away game, leaving Happy Valley available for a big event. Lara and Shawn met, fell in love and brought their families together in State College, PA. After their beautiful ceremony in downtown State College's Black Sun Studio, the couple and their wedding party paraded around campus and down Beaver Ave. The Penn State students and State College locals were lovin' on these two! Cheers, well wishes and "Oh my gosh, she's so beautiful!" were almost guaranteed with every passing. Downtown cheers aside, this day was for Shawn, Lara and their kids. The love shared in this family is so strong and was apparent in eve
Their story started at a car wash. Lara had been a customer there for about five years and Shawn was the GM. “I’d usually be behind the cash register and we would have conversations from across the counter. I knew of her story, how she had gone through a recent divorce, and I was also going through a divorce about a year later. After I knew she was single, and I was single, I had asked her to a live nativity scene.” Shawn explained. “He didn’t ask me to go, he just said something about knowing of a nearby one." Lara continued, "So I told Shawn, 'Oh that’s cool, someone was just asking me about a live nativity scene!' A friend of mine had asked if I had known anything about one and I didn’t.
