Bret Mitchell, a senior from Meridian, Idaho, and Jana Petramalo, a senior from Mesa, Ariz.

Temple date: May 5, 2006, Mesa Arizona Temple

Bret: We met in the summer of 2004 … Her boyfriend actually introduced us … We knew each other for an entire year and then last semester, we went out (finally!) Two months later we were engaged. We started looking for rings together at the end of Christmas break and she kept hinting about a ring at Jensen’s Jewelers. She described a ring she had seen quickly at Jensen’s, so we came up the Friday before the semester started, but then on Saturday I went and bought a different ring. While I was there, her dad called my cell phone, so I just set up an opportunity to talk with him to ask him if I could marry her and ask for his blessing. She had no idea that I even had a ring, and this was the first week of school, so she asked if we were ever going to go to Jensen’s. I had to call Jensen’s and ask them to act like they had never seen me before. So we went and they did a fantastic job and acted like they had never seen me before, asked about my upcoming job and such while Jana was doing the searching but we didn’t pick anything out. [A few days later] I wanted to go on a formal date, so we had dinner at her place and we were ready to go to see the Joseph Smith film and I said, ‘Hey remember this is a date!’ So I ran to my car and got a rose and gave it to her, which I had never done before. We drove down to Idaho Falls, watched the film and then we walked around to the other side of the temple. We were standing in the light and were reading some things from my journal and a letter that I had started writing her. I said, ‘Well, his letter’s unfinished but I want to finish it right now,’ and I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me. She didn’t even look at the ring, she had me stand up as fast as I could and she said ‘yes.’ She doesn’t remember saying it, but I remember because I was listening for it. She gave me a big hug and I closed the ring box behind her so the ring wouldn’t fall out, but then I opened it again and put it on her finger.”

Heather Synakowski, a junior from Utica, N.Y., and John Cozzens, a sophomore at BYU, from Burlington, Wyo.

Temple date: May 12, 2006, Palmyra New York Temple

Heather: “One weekend in September last semester, my roommates and I decided to throw a party and we wanted to invite lots of random people. So we made flyers and taped them to people’s doors. John and his brother and friend had gone to another party that night but it was really lame, so they thought they would check out our party they got a flyer for. They came and we kind of met there, but it wasn’t like instant or anything. The next day, his friend who [he] had come [with] said ‘Hey we’re having party, want to help us plan it?” So we went and John and I started talking and becoming friends. My roommate actually had a crush on him — she’s kind of shy, but she got his cell phone number and she really wanted to call him and go over to see him. She said, ‘Hey Heather, can you call him for me?’ We talked on the phone a few times, and then one time I called him up and he asked me to Guitars Unplugged. We went and really started to like each other and we started hanging out everyday. We got really close and serious and then he went home to Wyoming for Christmas and I went home to New York. We would talk three to four hours a day and finally I flew out about half a week early just so I could see him. He drove down to Provo from Wyoming and I helped him move in. On Jan. 7, I was getting ready to drive up [to Idaho] but we decided to go hiking up this mountain. There was a beautiful sunset and it was just really pretty. I was way out of breath, and he was like, ‘Hey can you sit down?’ I thought it was because I was like wheezing or something. He gets down on one knee, and I had my CTR ring on my ring finger, but he takes the ring off and says, ‘“Joseph Smith once said that a ring is like eternity — there’s no beginning, no middle, no end. Heather will you marry me for all time and all eternity?’”