hope1826
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Hi All, I was excited about my wedding before, but the flurry of new and revisited PJ's, as well all of the newlywed TR's, over the past week has tripled my excitement!! You've all been such great help and your journals are all so creative and inspirational.
CONGRATULATIONS to everyone!!
So here is mine...
Me: Nikki (29)
DF: Chris (29)
42 guests (including 11 children)
Wedding date: 5/5/08
Ceremony @ Sea Breeze Pointe 5 PM
Dinner Reception @ The Attic 6 PM
Illuminations DP @ The UK Terrace 8:30 PM
Photographer: Misty Miotto
Everything else still has to be decided. (Hair, Makeup, Officiant, etc.)
This is the extremely abridged version of our meeting and the proposal ( I apologize for the length in advance)...
Love at second sight...
Chris and I met a little over a year ago. We both agree, it was love at second sight! We first met on my mother's birthday September 25, 2006 while on a dinner cruise around Manhattan thrown by the firm I worked for. Chris had just been hired but was scheduled to start a week later, but they invited him anyway. It was very dark, I was sick (but went anyway, it was the firm's 100th anniversary) and I had invited a date (only because I didn't want to be the only one there without a date) It turned out that Chris was the only one without a date. So even though we met and shook hands, I barely even said two words to Chris the whole night.
When Chris started he was given the seat right next to me. The office has a very open layout (no cubicles or offices- just drafting tables and computers.) We shook hands for the second time but our eyes locked for the first time and I melted.
He was my Prince Charming!! He had the most amazing blue eyes and an adorable smile and he was such a gentleman. Within a minute we were talking about everything from The Simpsons, to Pink Floyd and Etta James to the meaning of life.
I later found out that he felt the same thing, when we met the second time. But at that point, neither of us were flirting, because he thought I was in a relationship (with my date on the boat- which is ridiculous because that guy hated Disney World!!) and I thought he was MARRIED!! He wasn't wearing a wedding ring, but all of my coworkers had been talking about how sad it was that he and his wife were separating and possibly getting a divorce. So early on, I asked him why he didn't wear his wedding ring. And ten minutes after he responded by telling me that he was not married and had never been married, my friends (now MOH and BM) and I set up the first Happy Hour our firm had had in a year!! I also promptly informed him that not only was I single, but I really wanted to get to know him better. And the flirting began!! Needless to say, that was the best Happy (four) Hours ever!! We've been inseparable ever since.
The biggest klutz in the world...
A week before our one year anniversary, Oct. 20, we went hiking in a nature reserve near my new job. It was sooooo beautiful that we decided that we were going to go hiking there at least once a month. There was a waterfall tucked away somewhere off the trails that we wanted to find. During that first trip, I kept thinking that it was absolutely the most perfect place for a proposal and I kept wishing that he would ask me. We had lived together practically since the first week we met, talked about marriage 6 months into our relationship and already knew we were going to marry at Disney, and we had named our three future children 9 months into our relationship (one will have a Disney princess' name), so I was VERY ready to say "YES" to a proposal and he knew that a ring was not required. So, of course, I was disappointed when we left the reserve without finding the waterfall and without a proposal.
A week later, on our anniversary, Chris suggested we go back to the reserve and find the waterfall. I said yes, with my fingers crossed again. We climbed and hiked and finally found the waterfall. We stood there for a while and he said nothing. I looked away from him, trying to not look disappointed that the waterfall didn't come with a proposal. And when I looked back, he was on one knee holding a ring box.
(I wish there was a smiley parade thingy) So of course, I said "Yes" . I then celebrated by partially falling into the river, because I'm the biggest klutz in the world. 
This is the ring...
CONGRATULATIONS to everyone!!
So here is mine...
Me: Nikki (29)
DF: Chris (29)
42 guests (including 11 children)
Wedding date: 5/5/08
Ceremony @ Sea Breeze Pointe 5 PM
Dinner Reception @ The Attic 6 PM
Illuminations DP @ The UK Terrace 8:30 PM
Photographer: Misty Miotto
Everything else still has to be decided. (Hair, Makeup, Officiant, etc.)
This is the extremely abridged version of our meeting and the proposal ( I apologize for the length in advance)...
Love at second sight...
Chris and I met a little over a year ago. We both agree, it was love at second sight! We first met on my mother's birthday September 25, 2006 while on a dinner cruise around Manhattan thrown by the firm I worked for. Chris had just been hired but was scheduled to start a week later, but they invited him anyway. It was very dark, I was sick (but went anyway, it was the firm's 100th anniversary) and I had invited a date (only because I didn't want to be the only one there without a date) It turned out that Chris was the only one without a date. So even though we met and shook hands, I barely even said two words to Chris the whole night.
When Chris started he was given the seat right next to me. The office has a very open layout (no cubicles or offices- just drafting tables and computers.) We shook hands for the second time but our eyes locked for the first time and I melted.
He was my Prince Charming!! He had the most amazing blue eyes and an adorable smile and he was such a gentleman. Within a minute we were talking about everything from The Simpsons, to Pink Floyd and Etta James to the meaning of life. I later found out that he felt the same thing, when we met the second time. But at that point, neither of us were flirting, because he thought I was in a relationship (with my date on the boat- which is ridiculous because that guy hated Disney World!!) and I thought he was MARRIED!! He wasn't wearing a wedding ring, but all of my coworkers had been talking about how sad it was that he and his wife were separating and possibly getting a divorce. So early on, I asked him why he didn't wear his wedding ring. And ten minutes after he responded by telling me that he was not married and had never been married, my friends (now MOH and BM) and I set up the first Happy Hour our firm had had in a year!! I also promptly informed him that not only was I single, but I really wanted to get to know him better. And the flirting began!! Needless to say, that was the best Happy (four) Hours ever!! We've been inseparable ever since.
The biggest klutz in the world...
A week before our one year anniversary, Oct. 20, we went hiking in a nature reserve near my new job. It was sooooo beautiful that we decided that we were going to go hiking there at least once a month. There was a waterfall tucked away somewhere off the trails that we wanted to find. During that first trip, I kept thinking that it was absolutely the most perfect place for a proposal and I kept wishing that he would ask me. We had lived together practically since the first week we met, talked about marriage 6 months into our relationship and already knew we were going to marry at Disney, and we had named our three future children 9 months into our relationship (one will have a Disney princess' name), so I was VERY ready to say "YES" to a proposal and he knew that a ring was not required. So, of course, I was disappointed when we left the reserve without finding the waterfall and without a proposal.
A week later, on our anniversary, Chris suggested we go back to the reserve and find the waterfall. I said yes, with my fingers crossed again. We climbed and hiked and finally found the waterfall. We stood there for a while and he said nothing. I looked away from him, trying to not look disappointed that the waterfall didn't come with a proposal. And when I looked back, he was on one knee holding a ring box.
(I wish there was a smiley parade thingy) So of course, I said "Yes" . I then celebrated by partially falling into the river, because I'm the biggest klutz in the world. This is the ring...
(coming from the one with the 'challenging' FMIL)
