About US!

About the bride

Kathleen Mary Offenheiser was born on May 2, 1984 in Columbus, OH and moved to Columbia, MD two months later with her parents and two brothers, Michael and David. After living in Maryland for 19 years, her parents then moved to Virginia Beach due to her father's job promotion. After living in VA Beach for two years, her parents moved to Orange County, CA in 2005 to be closer to her brothers and their grandchildren. Katie spent two years in California before returning to the east coast to finish her nursing degree at Catholic University of America. With a few college detours, Katie finally accomplished her childhood dream of becoming a nurse just like her mother! Katie is currently working at Children's hospital of Orange County on their pediatric intensive care unit.

About the groom

Nolan Shields McCready was born February 10, 1984 in Pottsville, PA and grew up in Wyomissing, PA with his parents, sister Kendall, and brothers Curran and Evan. After high school he attended Penn State University. While there he was a 3 year letterman on the football team and ended his career as an Academic All-American. After graduation, he spent a short time pursuing a professional football career before moving to Washington, DC in 2008. During his year in Washington, he worked for a litigation support company and during his time there decided he would go to law school. After meeting and falling for a certain girl in Washington, Nolan decided to make the move out west to California. He is currently working in Los Angeles at the law firm Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher in the environmental litigation department as a paralegal. Nolan has future plans to attend law school in California beginning in the fall of 2011.

How we met

Katie and Nolan met in Arlington, VA on August 2, 2008 at the Clarendon Ballroom. Katie was out for the evening with her roommates and Nolan was there with a few friends of his. While Katie was with her friends on the dance floor she spotted Nolan walking across the dance floor in his bright green t-shirt. Katie grabbed her roommate and said to her, "We are following him!" and they headed toward the dance floor and waited to see if he might approach her to dance. Nolan happened to be dancing with someone else and Katie continued to wait to see if Nolan would figure out what was good for him and dance with her. Tired of waiting for fate to intercede, Katie's roommate decided to push her into Nolan and they started dancing together right away. After a few dances, the two of them got separated and Katie went off with her roommates, who then decided they were going to leave for the night. As Katie was about to walk out the door, a voice was telling her that she needed to go back and say goodbye to Nolan. She came back to the dance floor and found him and he asked if he could have her phone number before she left. A few days later they met for coffee in Old Town Alexandria and the rest is history.....