Kuffel-White

Erin Elizabeth Kuffel and Ryan Charles White are planning a June 9, 2012, wedding at St. Mary's Visitation in Elm Grove.

Parents of the couple are Kevin and Kathryn Kuffel of Brookfield and William and Mary Grace White of Sterling Heights, Mich.

The bride-to-be earned her doctorate in kinesiology from Michigan State University. She is an assistant professor in health, exercise and rehabilitative sciences at Winona State University in Minnesota.

The future groom earned his doctorate in business administration, also from Michigan State University. He is an assistant professor in marketing at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Ryan proposed to Erin at the Beaumont Tower on the MSU campus Oct. 24, 2010. According to campus lore, those who kiss under the tower fall in love forever.