Milestones

Published 12:01 am Thursday, December 10, 2009

Engagement

Brodniak and Ringgold

Roger Brodniak of Marysville and Kristyn Ringgold of Davis, Calif., are planning a June wedding in Fresno, Calif.

The groom’s parents are Lloyd and Kathy Brodniak of Everett. The bride’s parents are Tim and Denise Ringgold of Fresno.

He earned a law degree from the University of Washington in 2000 and is now a social studies teacher at Archbishop Murphy High School in Everett. She is completing her doctorate in molecular, cellular and integrative physiology at University of California, Davis and is employed as a research assistant at the Fuller Lab in Davis, Calif.

Having met this spring, the couple discovered that they were soul mates, culminating in a proposal at a sunset overlook of the Puget Sound and Olympic Mountains at Alki Point in Seattle.