{"id":1390832,"date":"2025-02-16T08:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T14:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1390832"},"modified":"2025-02-18T07:26:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:26:46","slug":"azalea-home-nicknamed-the-engagement-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1390832","title":{"rendered":"Azalea home nicknamed the &#8220;engagement house&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1390833\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/engagementhouse-215x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/engagementhouse-215x200.png 215w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/engagementhouse-377x350.png 377w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/engagementhouse.png 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; A home in Tyler has unexpectedly became the backdrop for proposals being deemed the \u201cengagement house\u201d on social media. According to our news partner KETK, while he was in Tyler for work, James Meador was driving around town and found a home that he knew would be the perfect spot to ask his girlfriend Laura Hammers to spend the rest of her life with him. The home is located in the Azalea District and it is a popular destination during Christmas season because of its beautiful decorations.<\/p>\n<p>The lights hold a special meaning for the homeowners who had a tree in their wedding that was decorated with crystals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our own wedding, we had a tree. It was not a tree with lights, it was a tree with crystals, it was an indoor tree that my parents actually made for our wedding,\u201d homeowner Ashley Lesniewski said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lesniewski revealed that Meador was not the first to think of proposing outside of her house and two other couples have used her home as a backdrop for their proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Once Lesniewski found out another couple got engaged outside of her house she became eager to meet them and began searching through Facebook in hopes of finding the couple. Lesniewski was eventually able to find the couple through a post that deemed her home the \u201cEngagement House.\u201d Meador and his fianc\u00e9 were eventually able to connect with Lesniewski<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit__content\">\n<div id=\"acm-ad-tag-mr2_ab-mr2_ab\" data-slot=\"{&quot;is_oop&quot;:false,&quot;is_companion&quot;:true,&quot;sizes&quot;:[[[1280,0],[[300,250],[620,366]]],[[1024,0],[[300,250],[620,366]]],[[768,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]],[[641,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]]],&quot;size&quot;:[300,250]}\" data-unit=\"\/5678\/nx.ketk\/news\/top_stories\" data-fbonly=\"false\" data-refids=\"\" data-not-refids=\"\" data-targeting=\"{&quot;kw&quot;:&quot;proposal-leads-to-tyler-azalea-home-being-nicknamed-the-engagement-house&quot;,&quot;pos&quot;:&quot;mr2_ab&quot;,&quot;fold&quot;:&quot;atf&quot;,&quot;category&quot;:&quot;top_stories&quot;}\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The lights remain up from Halloween to Valentines Day at the \u201cEngagement House\u201d giving more couples the opportunity to propose outside of the home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A home in Tyler has unexpectedly became the backdrop for proposals being deemed the \u201cengagement house\u201d on social media. According to our news partner KETK, while he was in Tyler for work, James Meador was driving around town and found a home that he knew would be the perfect spot to ask his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1390832\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Azalea home nicknamed the &#8220;engagement house&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1390834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/engagementhouse-215x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 04:51:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/engagementhouse-215x200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390835,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390832\/revisions\/1390835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1390834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}