To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part. Students have been raving about Ms. Franta’s upcoming wedding that they’re all begging to attend. On June 17, Ms. Franta will no longer simply be engaged.

Ms. Franta said, “I’m excited, it’s going to be really fun,” regarding her upcoming wedding.

Choosing the date was the easy part. Since their engagement in 2015, they decided the wedding needed more time to arrange, so they would wait to get married until June 2017.

Ms. Franta said, “I literally like seventeens, which is weird. My birthday is April 17; almost everyone in my family was born on the 17. I just thought June 17, 2017, was cool.”

Planning a big wedding can be extremely stressful, especially without a wedding planner like Ms. Franta has chosen to undertake. As her date gets closer, she has become a ball of emotions as she finalizes her plans for the wedding. The idea of over 300 people focusing their full attention on her is unnerving.

Ms. Franta said, “I’m not an attention seeking person. Just the fact that 300 something people are going to be staring at me at some point is scary.”

Ms. Franta said, “It’s stressful; I understand why people hire wedding planners. It’s just a lot to do and because we got engaged two years ago, we kind of were like ‘oh we have all this time’ and then totally procrastinated.”

From the moment Ms. Franta and her fiance Dan Forde started dating in college, she knew he was ‘the one.’ Little did she know that he would soon become her better half.

Ms. Franta said, “It sounds super cliche, [but] when you just know you know, he’s like my best friend. I don’t think I’m a big romantic or anything. I’ve just known I always wanted to get married, and I obviously want to get married to him. It’s the next level of commitment to another person.”

The countdown has begun, and although Ms. Franta has pre-wedding nerves, the excitement for her honeymoon has her pumped.

Ms. Franta said, “I’m excited for our honeymoon; our vacation is going to be sweet. We’re going to two islands in Hawaii, and we’re going to be there for ten days, and then we’re going to San Francisco. From Hawaii, we’re flying to San Francisco, because it was cheaper to fly to San Francisco, stay there for two more days and then fly home.”

In exactly three weeks and 4 days, she will be walking down the aisle of St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Orland Park. Church bells will be ringing.