It has been one year since I said
“Yes”. To what is considered a very important question. A
question every girl waits to hear. And her parents just hope she
hears that question from someone they like. Luckily I can check off
all of the above.
A year ago (July 30, 2011) Brennan
proposed. I can’t believe it has been a year. How quick
the time goes. In that year we have made many more great memories
and I can officially say not much progress in the way of actually getting
married. Woops. My plan was to basically be done planning- but with
a new job, coaching, training (sometimes) and just enjoying life. I have not
really done that much in the way of actually planning our dream wedding.
I can official say let the planning begin. I filled
out all the paper work for the church and placed a deposit. They
confirmed our date. Then gave us all the information need for our
pre-marriage workbooks and classes. Just have to turn in all Brennan's
certificates (which are sitting on the kitchen table). That was the first
positive step.
Then with our busy schedules we made time to spend
a Sunday in Redlands (my hometown) to check out the last option for our wedding
reception. I was pretty sure that we would leave with what seemed like
the right place. Turns out I was right.
We spent about two hours Brennan, myself, my
parents and our family friend Sandy touring all the options of the University of
Redlands. Turned out the hot walk was well worth it because we
found where we want to have our reception. I had been to a wedding at the Alumni House and thought it might work but
needed Brennan's approval. Turns out he was thinking exactly what I was
thinking. Maybe we do think alike :).
Once Brennan saw it he was also sold. After a fun
time of looking around and starting to talk about idea's. And we have
some great ideas. Plus the University of Redlands has many beautiful backdrops.
Backdrops in which we will be able to take many pictures at.
Because lets be honest I want amazing pictures. Remember a picture
is worth a thousand words. I want tons and tons of pictures. After
getting a basic idea of how we wanted the reception set up we headed back to my
parents’ house to discuss more details and have a great BBQ with
friends. So in just about a year we have made baby steps of
progress. I am still waiting for a contract from the University of
Redlands for our reception. So cannot confirm our date till that happens-
but we are moving forward.
Then this last weekend we picked colors for the
wedding. What colors the bridesmaids and the groomsmen will wear.
Decided what Brennan will be wearing. I already have my dress :).
Then working on our wedding website. Once that is finished we will send
out the link!
I am not sure what our next steps of progress will
be- but I think once our contract is finalized it will be easier to plan my
next move of attack. Like hearing what they say about lighting, tables,
those things. Then I can plan for decoration. Just want to start with all
the information before I have to back track.
Brennan and I debated on making one of our classic
home made videos while we toured the University of Redlands venues. But decided
against it. Thought we should maybe seem like grown up's. Do not
worry though we decided the old school save the dates are over rated. We
will be sending you a video of us announcing our wedding date!! Kind of excited
for that!
Stay tuned for updates and information for Brennan
and Jamie wedding of 2013. I also want to mention Brennan who loves excel and
creating charts/ spreadsheets has made this amazing spreadsheet that we will
use for tracking our invitations. It has categories for mailing address, email,
then will calculate for us how many people we are inviting then when we start
getting RSVP the math for that. Then I am sure it does all kinds of other
great things that will help us keep organized between the two families. I can’t
thank him enough for just deciding this was something that we needed. Basically
he is going to keep all that organized and simple.
Well I may not have planned much in the last year.
But we have had a great engagement thus far with more adventures to come.
As well as a lot of planning!
