He Sketched What He Thought Her Dress Would Look Like, And Somehow Nailed It

A fiancé challenged to draw what his wife’s wedding dress would look like on their big day ended up nailing the accuracy in an incredible reveal.

Parker Van Buren, 23, and his wife, Sitori, 23, from Middleton, Wisconsin, met during their sophomore year of high school and had been together for eight years before their wedding.

The couple were both recruited to play sports at Loyola University, in Chicago, and after they graduated in the summer of 2025, Parker asked Sitori to marry him.

In the build-up to the big day, Parker would always try and guess what Sitori might be wearing – but, sticking to tradition, Sitori wouldn’t give anything away.

Instead, she decided to make it a game, handing Parker a pencil a month before their wedding, setting her camera to record, and asking her fiancé to draw what he thought her dress would look like.

Parker didn’t want Sitori to watch his creative process, but he eventually presented his fiancée with his final work.

The 23-year-old envisaged a tiara, a shoulderless dress wired at the bottom to “keep poofy,” and a “massive bow” at the back; “huge gloves”; and a separate, rear drawing of a messy bun hairstyle.

Sitori kept the clips before later posting them with the reveal from the couple’s wedding itself in Stoughton, Wisconsin.

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Parker’s drawing was incredibly close to his wife’s final look – with Sitori even adding a giant bow to the back of a dress she wore to the dancefloor.

She said: “Before some last-minute wedding planning, I gave him the pencil and paper and asked him to draw what he thought my wedding dress would look like.

“He didn’t want me to watch him as he was drawing which was so cute to me – he wanted a grand reveal where he could explain his though process.

“My bridesmaids saw the drawing before the wedding and were so excited for him to see my dress because they couldn’t believe how similar he drew it.

“The response has been so heartwarming – I’ve gotten so many fun and thoughtful comments about how couples want to do this before their own wedding, and how it shows Parker knows me very well.”