"It's not a rash decision. I definitely knowhim. The times he spent with us he's lived with usin the house," she says. "I know the good and thebad. I know I want to spend the rest of my lifewith him."
Although Clisham and Speder had discussedmarriage, she says she was not expecting aproposal last summer.
"It was in a park, a favorite place of ours,"she says. "He took me by surprise, which he tendsto do."
Clisham said yes right away, and says her onlyregret is that she will be leaving her familybehind when she moves to Arizona to pursue acareer teaching history.
"I wouldn't have lived in Wisconsin anyway,"she says. "But it's a final break to get marriedand leave home. That's going to be hard,especially for my mom, because I'm really close toher."
Although she's had "complete strangers" tellher she's too young to get married, Clisham saysit's not too early. She will be 23 and Speder willbe 25 when they marry this summer.
"If someone had asked me freshman year if Ithought I'd be getting married right out ofcollege, I would have given them the big no,"Clisham says. "But there comes a point where