With blood up to his elbows, Jared Lavers of New Gloucester dropped to one knee in the North Maine woods beside his dead moose and asked his girlfriend of 6 years for her hand in marriage. It wasn’t exactly Prince Charming on a white horse, but Christine Messer thought it was perfect. She didn’t want fancy, she said, just something special. Lavers, 34, and Messer, 37, both love to hunt, which is why Messer said it meant a lot to her that he planned his proposal out the way he did. Lavers started hunting when he was 10 years old, although he began tagging along on his father’s hunts when he was 6 or 7. Messer had hunted some before the two became a couple. “It wasn’t long into our relationship that I knew she was the one,” Lavers said. “I’m just a procrastinator.” The happy couple are working on setting a date for a wedding somewhere in Maine, although they say they’ll have to work around their hunting schedule.
Maine Man Gets First Moose and Bride-To-Be the Same Day
With blood up to his elbows, Jared Lavers of New Gloucester dropped to one knee in the North Maine woods beside his dead moose and asked his girlfriend of 6 years for her hand in marriage. It wasn’t exactly Prince Charming on a white horse, but Christine Messer thought it was perfect. She didn’t want fancy, she said, just something special. Lavers, 34, and Messer, 37, both love to hunt, which is why Messer said it meant a lot to her that he planned his proposal out the way he did. Lavers started hunting when he was 10 years old, although he began tagging along on his father’s hunts when he was 6 or 7. Messer had hunted some before the two became a couple. “It wasn’t long into our relationship that I knew she was the one,” Lavers said. “I’m just a procrastinator.” The happy couple are working on setting a date for a wedding somewhere in Maine, although they say they’ll have to work around their hunting schedule.