RIPON (WKOW) — Instead of planning a wedding, a Sun Prairie woman is planning a funeral for her fiancée, the man killed in the wrong-way crash on Highway 151.

Alyssa Van Gorder spent Thursday leafing through the last of their photos together.

“This was right after he proposed,” she said. “It was an extremely rainy day, It was cold. It was December 28th. We were in sweaters.”

Not ideal conditions, but Van Gorder said the moment, like the man, was perfect.

“He was an amazing kind generous compassionate person,” she said.

On Sunday May 26, 24-year-old Ryan Schultz was driving home after visiting his parents. Van Gorder was out of town visiting her sister. That evening, she said she got a call from him for the last time.

“He just kept saying that I love you and I miss you and he couldn’t wait for me to come home on Tuesday and then said that he would call me when he got home,” she said. “Then he never got home.”

According the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office, Ryan Schultz was hit by a wrong-way driver at about 10 p.m. that night. He was driving south on Highway 151 north of Beaver Dam when an alleged drunk driver hit him head-on. Schultz was pronounced dead at the scene.

“It’s wrong,” Van Gorder said. “It’s so wrong.”

Van Gorder said she felt even worse after learning the accused wrong-way driver had a history of OWIs. Before Sunday, he had four convictions. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office believes this crash could be his fifth.

“I wish he knew what kind of hurt and pain that he has caused,” Van Gorder said.

Rep. Jim Ott (R-Mequon) said that pain is what inspired him to spend years trying to get stricter OWI laws passed.

“The reason I’ve been working on this issue for all these years is to try to provide deterrents,” he said. “If you increase penalties and along with awareness and education there should be less drunk driving.”

Thursday two of his current bills passed a major milestone in the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety. Assembly Bill 15 requires all first time OWI offenders to appear in court and Assembly Bill 17 creates a mandatory minimum sentence for a fatal OWI crash, five years in prison.

The committee voted unanimously to move the bills to the full assembly.

“If I didn’t feel it was going to cut down on drunk driving, there would be no point in doing any of this,” Ott said.

Ott said he’s now working to make sure those bills make it through the same committee in the Senate and then make it to the floor.

Meanwhile he said two of his other bills are not likely to make it out of committee. One that would criminalize first offense OWIs and another that would removes the 10-year exceptions for 2nd offense OWIs. Under current law, a 2nd offense OWI is treated as a first offense if 10 years have passed since the last OWI

As for Van Gorder, she said she’s in support of any legislation that could help prevent a crash like the one that killed the man she loved.

“This needs to stop happening because it really does tear lives apart,” she said.

As Van Gorder prepares for Schultz’s funeral this weekend, her family set up a fundraiser to help her cover the costs associated with his death.