Dave and I have
had such a wonderful year and can’t begin to express how blessed we feel. The year started out with Dave and I talking
of wedding bells. We both felt that I was time to move forward in our lives and
begin a new life together. We left
things hanging and I was just hoping that things would fall into place.
Dave proposed on April 14th,2012 at The Cowboy in Provo Utah during a Jaugertown set before the Tracy Lawrence show. On the Day Dave
proposed he even called my parents and asked their permission, (I had talked to
them several times that day and they acted totally normal) how romantic. He had gotten me a
dozen red roses and then a single white one in a bouquet. We had dinner out at Buffalo Wild Wings and
then were headed to the Tracy Lawrence concert. Our favorite local band
Jaugertown was opening up for Tracy and I was so excited to go and have a nice
evening out. I admit I was totally clueless. I guess I just knew that Dave
likes to make me feel special and so I was really not too much out of the
norm. Dave had things all arranged and
they called me up on stage, Dave got down on one knee and in front of over a
1000 people asked me to be his wife. I was totally surprised and of course said
yes. Jaugertown, then played our favorite song, From Where I Stand, and we danced and I cried!
We called my parents after the concert, and then told Dave's parents the following Monday. We set a date 11 August 2012, which was just a short four months away. I then started
the task of wedding planning. I was looking online for flower ideas and came
across a bouquet of knitted flowers. I was instantly hooked and headed to my
yarn stash for inspiration. I then got the idea to do all the wedding flowers, the
boutonnieres, corsages, centerpieces and my bouquet. I knitted and croqueted for
about six weeks.
Finding my dress
was yet another arduous that I was instantly overwhelmed with. I started
looking on-line for styles that I liked and couldn’t find anything that I
loved. I found a style and called the shop that turned out to be located in
Logan Utah. The shop owner was kind enough to tell me who the designer was. I
then started calling around Provo and Orem and found several shops that carried
the designer. After several trips to shops I was sorely disappointed. A few
weeks later Dave and I attended a bridal show at Provo High School. We were
there for what seems like forever. In the far corner of the showroom The Bridal
Center had a booth http://abridalcenter.com, Julie the owner’s daughter was there and she had previously
had “the dress” in her store. We made an appointment and went over to Lehi to
The Bridal Center. Dave and I went over and looked at dresses. I tried on a
few, and then they brought in a dress that I wasn’t sure about, I tried it on
and I fell in love with it…
Dave and I then
set to finding a place to get married and to have a family luncheon. We called
around, went driving with Dave’s parents to several places, and then went
driving around ourselves. We went to White Willow Reception Center; it was love
at first sight. They had everything we were looking for at t price we felt we
could afford.
It was now time
for finding a cake designer. We again used the internet and made lots of calls.
We meet with several cake designers and none of them really embraced our
vision. A few weeks later I was cleaning out my email inbox and ran across an
email from a company that I presumed I had seen at the bridal fair. I emailed
them and then made an appointment. We meet with Sam Keele of Awesome Cheap
Wedding Cakes https://www.facebook.com/AwesomeWeddingCakesCheap, Sam was so excited to do our peanut butter and jelly cake,
with the ombre color we wanted.
We started
looking for a wedding photographer and again since we live in Utah, there are
so many wedding photographers that will indeed do a great job, but charge so
much money to do so. We found Marina at http://www.photobymarina.com. We again found the person that would meet not only our
financial needs but to provide us with a perfect wedding day full of memories.
More wedding stories and how we meet coming soon!
