Oh, and the new save the dates are here!

My mother insisted we have a save the date with a picture of us on it. So i made one! For about $13 including shipping, i got a beautiful personalized Save The Date postcard to send out to friends and family! So be looking for one of these to beautify your refrigerator soon!!

And today I did...NOTHING!

So I'm pretty much doing nothing at the moment. I thought i had someone I wanted to do the cake, but in the end i decided to go a different direction. That is the problem with getting married in a small town...the only wedding cake makers are women who make them out of their homes. I have found some closer to me in Plano, but they will charge over $200 just to deliver the dang thing...so now what to do?? The good news is I found a cake I like and just have to get it in my colors, so that is one thing down. Claire and Susan have now both ordered their dresses!! Its such a great dress...love it. I thought there was gonna be a death at David's Bridal but in the end its all okay!

I also found a whole sale online flower vendor that does calla lilies and roses in orange and cream, which would be beautiful for the bouquets, which we are planning on making ourselves. You can bet i won't be sleeping the night before this wedding with all i'll have to do. I probably won't sleep for a month! So I need to call mom and see what she thinks tonight but I wonder if I'll be able to find her since she's a free woman with Dad and Maggie in CS this week. Oh well, its worth a try!

I am looking around for jobs for the fall because i want to be in a school with a day job getting experience and hopefully well known around the school. Its either get an aide position or a sub position...doesn't matter much either way. Regardless, after the wedding I will more than likely not wait tables anymore because my school will be at night (IF i get in...cross your fingers for me!) B is taking his last course for the CPA this fall at U of H Victoria, as well as 2 other grad classes for his MBA, so hopefully we're on the right track here. I do not know how people stay sane, live their lives and try to plan a wedding...probably most just don't. I'm certainly headed toward Looneyville!!

CAKE. and FLOWERS. and TUXES. oh my!!

So I have a lot to do, and my much more organized and less procrastinating SIL to be is making sure I remember what I should be doing. So cake was on my agenda today...except that Brian decided he wanted to go to Hooters tonight and I forgot all about it. Guess I call Saturday or Monday. What a pain! We are having dinner with Brian's family this weekend and Jenna wants to see all of my wedding "stuff". Hmmmm...do I even know what i want and what i've been spending time scouring magazines and the internet for?? Next time, I'm hiring a wedding planner. (just kidding about the next time thing B).

Wedding Details

We will be getting married Saturday November 8, 2008 in Sherman, TX at Trinity Lutheran Church. The wedding will be held a 5:30pm and a reception will follow at Austin College in Sherman. So far I'm still working on the details but my colors are chocolate brown and a pumpkin orange (i guess that's the color). We are looking a calla lilies and planning a candy bar for our guests. I just got my dress and I'm working on ordering the bridesmaids gowns. So many details go into a wedding, but I'm feeling pretty fortunate that I have yet to turn into a "bridezilla". I use the word yet loosely though.

We are having a pretty decent sized wedding party. I want everyone to feel important and special especially our families!! Everyone is so important to this wedding and making it actually happen, especially my future sister-in-law Jenna...she's amazing. My three best friends from high school Katie, Susan and Claire will be playing bridesmaids, as well as my friends Julie and Ashley. My sister Maggie will be the maid of honor. Brian's niece Delaney will be our flower girl, which I pretty much decided the day she was born. On the groom's side things are still in the works. But Brian's brother Chris will be the best man, along with my brother John, and B's friends Ryan, John and Cody as groomsmen (the 6th groomsmen is still TBA). Hopefully we will have enough room for everyone in the church.

About Us

Brian and I met in the fall of 2001 when I was a high school senior. We had mutual friends and met when my girls started hanging out at his house after collecting canned goods for a food drive (sounds so charitable this way)! After about 6 months of hanging out, i had I developed a crush on Brian and he called me out of the blue at the beginning of 2002. We had always had a friendship but never a close friendship, so it struck me as odd! Well, after that we became more than friends and spent more time alone getting to know each other watching Mavs & Stars games, and hanging out with friends. I especially remember several trips to Taco Bueno....'nuff said.

So I would consider us to have begun dating around the beginning of 2002, though there was a little more than friendship there before it truly came to be. In April 2002 we made our relationship official. It was my 18th birthday; a day filled with tattoos and calamine lotion and biology tests. After we got out of Biology class I was surprised to learn he was at my house waiting for me, where we had cake and fun, and that was the day we became boyfriend and girlfriend. A lot happened over the next 6 years, but it included me starting and finishing college, Brian making 3 trips over seas, and a multitude of other obstacles. So fast forward to April 2008 when Brian finally decides to propose...

It was my 24th birthday and I had spent the day with my friend Ashley and my sister Maggie. Brian had class at UNT that day and was not supposed to be home from school until around 8 or 9pm. Maggie and Ashley left as a storm was getting ready to hit and not long after Brian came home with a mini raspberry white chocolate truffle cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory. It was great, except that it was frozen and we had about an hour and a half before we could eat it. So Brian come in the house and hands me the mail and i'm opening up an invitiation to a sorority sister's wedding. He goes into his room to put up his bag and take off his jacket. He comes out to the kitchen as i'm putting the response card on the fridge. He is standing there with this goofy grin on his face and his hands behind his back (oh crap, i know what's coming here)...so he looks at me and i look at him.
Finally I say, What are you doing??
He sticks his toungue out at me and says, I'm going to kiss you.
With your tongue?
That's how i usually do it (yeah go figure.)
OK...
(so we kiss here) and as i open my eyes he's standing there with the MOST beautiful ring he could have picked out all on his own!! I was really happy but not expecting it. I'm surprised i didn't cry but i didn't. I just looked at him waiting for him to propose...except he didn't say ANYTHING.
So after about 30 seconds i say, um what's that honey?
(silence)
Is that my birthday present??
(silence)
Wow thanks honey is beautiful.
So does that mean you'll marry me??
Of course it does...

And that was my magical proposal. Amazingly Brian, right?!

And now we are engaged to be married November 8, 2008...After knowing each other over 7 years and being a couple for 6 1/2. He's a keeper, and i'm pretty sure he must feel the same way about me!

wedding fun

we're getting married!