Luckily for us, the next family who came along the hiking trail had a professional photographer amongst them who grabbed a shots of the moment.
The name Kawishiwi in the Ojibwe language means “river full of beaver or muskrat houses”. The watershed drains from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and flows 2,000 miles north to Hudson Bay.
As Dakota was focused on snapping photos, Andrew very clandestinely fumbled through his pockets to find the ring. As he asked her to be a partner for future adventures like this one, she started crying and exclaiming "yes, of course".
Luckily for us, the next family who came along the hiking trail had a professional photographer amongst them who grabbed a shots of the moment.
This solitaire style ring, named Greylands is of French or American design sometime in the mid-1930's. After the U.S. began its recovery from the Great Depression, Hollywood and all its glamour became the influence of this era of jewelry. This ring, as was the style, is three-dimensionally set so you can see all parts of the diamond.
Dakota was not even out of the woods before planning started... stay tuned for the When and the Where of the Cafourek+Arkin wedding circa 2016.
In the meantime, we're preparing for a coast-to-coast road trip for the rest of 2015.
Follow along on Dakota's site Maidstone Buttermilk.