Meet the Bride and Groom
Breanna (Breezy) LaPriel Stein spent most of her growing up days in Rexburg Idaho USA. She has always enjoyed stories, art, birds, and plants. Breezy currently studies ceramics and Samm and BYU-Idaho.
Samuel George Liddicott grew up in Wakefield England. Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of it, “it’s near Leeds.” He loves Lego, photography, Breezy, and stop motion filming. Samm currently studies Book Binding and is minoring in Breezy studies at BYU-Idaho.
How They Met
Samm and Breezy met as Elder Liddicott and Sister Stein whilst on their religious service missions in Edmonton, Canada. Their first encounter was at a Christmas conference at which Samm saved the day in scripture jeopardy.
Later Breezy had a bit of an admiration crush when Samm gave a fantastic address at another conference. After not seeing each other for months they served in the same area of the main city (Edmonton) and became friends.
Samm’s First Thoughts About Breezy
“I thought she was beautiful. She had such pretty eyes, she dressed really quirkily and was really fun to talk to. And I wanted to marry her which caught me off guard and, well, here we are… getting married.”
Breezy’s First Thoughts About Samm
“He was really witty and fun to talk to. He also taught well, served diligently, and cared about people. It’s hard to explain really. There were just lots of things about him that drew me towards him. He was different and I liked it.”
How It Began
Three days after returning from their missions Samm sent Breezy a message and they haven’t stopped talking since. Well, they did once for about 5 minutes but then regretted it.
Some of their first dates were over video call and included such exploits as an international tic-tac-toe tournament and a global tour of major cities and sights such as the Sydney Opera house. They also sent paper letters via snail mail for most of their relationship until Samm went to the USA. Samm asked Breezy in December 2019 to be his girlfriend.
She said no.
Thankfully she said yes the second time he asked on Friday the 13th of March the next year otherwise writing this would be rather awkward.
Dating
Just over a year after their mission, Breezy and Samm were reunited in person at a park in Lindon Utah. The map indicated it was on a hill, but it was really just a slope with a flat bit and some swings. It was on this deceptive rise they shared their first hug and held hands.
They also both wore pink because dressing as goths was impractical. It was August by this point, and Breezy had said she didn’t want to go too fast, so Samm decided not to kiss her until December.
He failed. They made it to September before sharing their first kiss.
Dating was a myriad of new experiences. Breezy helped Samm hold a puppy for the first time and took him on his first multiple-day road trip (driving for 24 hours is painful and really painful). Samm helped Breezy to stop sleeping in too much and introduced her to classic British TV.
They also almost got eaten by a bear, it’s an interesting tale.
Engagement
Breezy and Samm decided that they wanted to be part of each other’s life forever and get married. Samm started to hatch a plan and began looking for rings behind Breezy’s back, telling her it was her phone ringing whenever she got suspicious.
Ring in pocket he almost proposed several times, but it never worked out. Breezy suspected nothing as she assumed a proposal would come later in the year.
Samm, Breezy, and Jessica (a friend) went on a country drive where it was planned by Samm and Jessica for the proposal to happen at Fall Creek Falls in Swan Valley, Idaho.
On arrival at the falls, they found it full with hardly room to park (which Samm thought and still thinks utterly ridiculous that the one day in his entire life he needed it to be empty it wasn’t).
They decided to continue on their drive and come back later. But after an unplanned detour, it was nearly dark when they came back to the waterfall under the pretense of Samm wanting to take ‘pictures’.
Jessica and Samm almost burst out laughing when Breezy said “I’ve waited my whole life for this day!” upon exiting the car. She was talking about her recently acquired flashlight, a gift from T-Mobile, not getting engaged.
All three friends stood by the waterfall gazing into the rapidly descending darkness when Breezy suggested that it might be time to go.
Under normal circumstances this would have been a sensible suggestion, it was cold and dark. These were not normal circumstances, however.
Not wanting to be thwarted a fourth time, Samm got down on one knee and asked Breezy to marry him.
She said yes and they have an almost pitch black photo to prove it.
When they returned to the car Breezy asked if Samm had talked to her father to ask permission – he hadn’t. He didn’t even have his phone number at this point actually.
After a great laugh, Samm called Breezy’s father and asked for permission as if he had not just proposed. After Breezy’s father gave his blessing he asked Samm when he planned to propose to which he responded that he had actually proposed about 10 minutes ago.
As you can see, it all worked out and here we are writing this tale for you to read.
Any likeness or similarity to persons dead or alive is purely coincidental.