Wedding Mode

So, the past few days have been SUPER crazy! Grandma stopped by the other day with about 7-8 bridal magazines. Now I know what I'll be doing at work for the next few weeks, just thumbing through them, and reading every line and examining every detail. Today at work, during a slow time, I made the cover for my "Wedding Book." Its where I'm gonna put all the clippings from the magazines and catalogs, pictures from off line, and all the info on the bookings and appointments to make and attend. It will be huge by the end of this process.

We made the decision today to worry about the bridesmaids dresses before my own---yes very un traditional---due to the fact that being up at school for a semester will make it harder to do the dresses unless most of the work for them is done before hand. Luckily for me, on my way up to school I have to pass through Provo and Salt Lake which are pretty much Mormon Wedding Central!! There is no way I can't find a modest dress in one of those places, even in Rexburg!!

Gonna call the temple tomorrow and reserve the rooms for the Endowment session and for the Sealing! So excited! Hopefully we'll get the day we wanted!! Once we know we can start working on invitations and possibly Save the Dates.

Well, off to go cut out magazine clips for my book!

Here we go!!

SO I'm kinda new to this blogging thing! But I thought I'd give it a try, since it's kinda really the thing to do once you get engaged I guess. Yes, Jacob and I are Engaged!!

And since it's the first post, I think it customary to give kind of a brief how it happened, (Plus I know I'm gonna get sick of repeating myself with the story).

Jacob and I met at a somewhat mutual friends house, back in August when he was just days home from his mission. We both we're in relationships at the time, I with a long-distance boyfriend, and he with his girlfriend from before the mission. Being completely honest, he seemed so shy that night, and because of the fact that he hardly said a word the whole time, i barely noticed he was there. None the less, I had a request from him on Facebook the next morning.

As we began talking over the internet, we realized we actually had a lot in common. The main thing that sparked was that we had the exact same major. We are both Music Education majors, emphasizing in Choral Instruction, both hoping to be choir teachers/directors one day. He had explained to me that he wen to CSUF before his mission, but now he couldn't attend there because they wouldn't let him discontinue his education for more than a year. We discussed his options, and before I had left for school in September, we had agreed upon staying in touch so that i could tell him all about the music ed. program in Rexburg.

Very quickly after I got up to school, the relationship I was in got very complicated, and I really didn't know who to turn to. I had friends back home, but I was scared to turn to them because they were more invested in the situation than I had hoped, and i didn't feel quite so comfortable talking to my roommates about it, whom I hadn't even known 2 weeks yet. So I called the one person at the moment I felt comfortable talking to about anything really, that I knew would give me advise based on what he felt was in my best interest. I didn't end up staying with that boyfriend.

Jacob and I talked frequently over the next few months as I was in Rexburg. He became my best friend, and I ended up keeping in touch with him more than the vast majority of my other friends from home. I was over joyed near the end of the semester when he told me he wanted to transfer up to BYU-Idaho where I was, he was fianlly sold on the program, and now it was just working on the minor details. I didn't realize I was attracted to him until my roommate one day asked me who I was texting so much.

Upon my arrival home at Christmas time, he was one of the people I was excited to see most. We realized our mutual attraction to eachother with in days of spending actual time together instead of just using technology to help keep our frienship alive.

We got together on Christmas Day! He charmed me with a bag of Snickers for a Christmas present, and he recieved a kiss in return!

On the eve of Valentines Day, we made plan to go the the beach and have dinner just the two of us. I worked that morning, while he went to LA to shop for "stuff." He later showed up at my house with a bouquet pf white roses---my absolute favorite---and we left for the beach, one of those roses in my hand.We sent up our picnic near lifeguard tower 5 at Huntington City Beach as the sun was setting. To mark our territory, I stuck the single rose I brought with me in the sand.

Upon finishing eating, the sun just about disappeared over the horizon, he asked me how I liked my flower. When I replied that I loved my flowers, he claimed he had another one that was special in his pocket.

Then out of his pocket came a red velvet box in the shape of a rose on a stem. In the box was my beautiful ring! He proceeded to put the ring on my finger, as he asked me to marry him!! To which I exclaimed "Yes, Yes, A thousand times, Yes!"

So there you have it everyone! I know we haven't been dating that long, and I know I'm only 18 years old, but this is what we want! It didn't take us long to realize that we wanted to be with each other in the long run. I know that I love him and I can't see myself spending my life and the here after with anyone else, so why wait for FOREVER to begin?