09/23/2026
Sometimes the person you’re meant to find shows up when you’ve pretty much stopped looking.
For these two, it happened at the baseball fields.
Their sons were on the same team, he was the assistant coach, and one day she found herself asking a friend, “Who is the man stuck in a teenager’s clothes?” Gym shorts, hoodie up, and apparently a pretty badass pair of Nikes.
Turns out his name was Erik. And he was single.
As the season went on, she started noticing more than the Nikes. She watched the way he was with the kids, their families started spending more time together, and somewhere along the way she realized she wanted to know him as more than just the assistant coach.
So she worked up the nerve to text him and tell him she was interested.
And then… nothing. For HOURS.
Just as she was wondering how she’d ever show her face at the next baseball game, his text finally came through: he was interested too!
From there, things moved pretty quickly. They spent every minute they could together, then Erik asked Rachel to marry him.
Rachel describes Erik as the calm to her storm. The Rip to her Beth… Yellowstone.
Two people who had both started to believe they might spend the rest of their lives alone somehow ended up exactly where they needed to be, on the same baseball field.
And the rest of the story brought us here. Congrats to the amazing newlyweds!
📸 Katie | www.WeddingsByAlexS.com
