sarcasticblonde
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Been here for a few weeks...figured it was time to start my planning journal 
Adam and I are getting married on Sunday, April 6, 2008. Currently, we are expecting approximately 60-75 guests. The rehearsal dinner is going to be at the Polynesian Resort Luau. Sea Breeze Point will be the setting of our wedding ceremony which will start at 5 o'clock in the evening. Directly following the ceremony will be cocktails in the China Pavilion Courtyard, then the formal dinner will move inside the Pavilion at 7pm.
Our colors are purple with silver and black accents. We aren't really planning on having a Disney theme.
Let me tell you a little bit about how Adam and I.
How we met:
Adam is originally from a suburb outside Chicago and I am from a small town near the southern tip of Illinios. For New Years 05/06, a girlfriend and I decided to spend a few days in Chicago. One New Years Eve, she and I were at a bar and a group of guys came up to talk to us just after midnight. Adam and I hit it off immediately and we talked all night. I remember he bought me a rose, which I thought was so sweet. We stayed out until 8am. He left to catch a flight to Orlando (he was going on a family Disney World trip) and I was to head back home that afternoon. We text messaged and talked on the phone the whole week he was in Disney and when he got back we never left each other's side. Fast as it may seem, we moved in together a month after we met.
Our engagement:
I don't have the standard super elaborate engagement story that some girls have. Our engagement actually began with an argument
February 27, 2007...that is when it happened. I was looking online at different SUV's, trying to find the best fit for me. I had been discussing buying a new car with Adam, who is very opinionated on the subject. He was very negative about the car I had in mind, saying it was a cheap brand of car, blah blah blah. It made me mad! I really liked it!
The argument continued through to dinner, where we were eating at a local Mexican restaurant. I barely spoke (or ate) during the dinner. He kept giving me this weird look. And I was like, "What? Say whatever it is you are thinking." He just shook his head and said, "It can wait." So we drove home in silence and when we got back to our place, I flopped down on the bed to sulk.
He pulls a chair up beside the bed and grabs my hand. He then proceeds to tell me that no one else sees him, knows him or loves him the way that I do. That he couldn't go a day without me in his life and he would rather be arguing with me than be with anyone else. And then he asked me to marry him.
It was the most special moment ever...but boy did I feel like the biggest b****
Adam's Family
First let me start off by saying a little something about my parents. They have been married 30+ years and are great people. Nice, accepting and you can talk to them about anything. They are those funny parents that will talk to you like you are an equal, not a "kid". They have liked Adam from the beginning and always treat him with respect.
I wish that was how Adam's family was. Adam is Jewish and I am not. I knew that was going to possibly be an issue. Also, Adam has a very strained relationship with his parents (moreso with his mother though). They have never gotten along because she is not a nice person and is very very controlling.
Since I met her, she has never been nice to me. She makes rude comments to put me down (basically, she thinks I am white trash because I didn't grow up in a rich Chicago suburb - Adam told me this). When they found out we were getting married, his parents never congratulated us, but immediately began telling us how, when and where we would be having our wedding - that we were paying for OURSELVES (P.S. We are both 24 year old ADULTS!!). I won't go into what the demands were, but it was basically everything against what we (or I) wanted.
We had originally planned on a 150 guest wedding and reception at the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown Chicago, but they were turning it into a 250 guest affair that was to be a party for them and their friends. Here is a quote from them directly: "A wedding isn't for you. It is for your guests. 10 years from now, you aren't going to remember anything about your wedding." Wow...
We couldn't handle it anymore, so we decided to up and move it to Walt Disney World!!!
Coming next...The planning
Adam and I are getting married on Sunday, April 6, 2008. Currently, we are expecting approximately 60-75 guests. The rehearsal dinner is going to be at the Polynesian Resort Luau. Sea Breeze Point will be the setting of our wedding ceremony which will start at 5 o'clock in the evening. Directly following the ceremony will be cocktails in the China Pavilion Courtyard, then the formal dinner will move inside the Pavilion at 7pm.
Our colors are purple with silver and black accents. We aren't really planning on having a Disney theme.
Let me tell you a little bit about how Adam and I.
How we met:
Adam is originally from a suburb outside Chicago and I am from a small town near the southern tip of Illinios. For New Years 05/06, a girlfriend and I decided to spend a few days in Chicago. One New Years Eve, she and I were at a bar and a group of guys came up to talk to us just after midnight. Adam and I hit it off immediately and we talked all night. I remember he bought me a rose, which I thought was so sweet. We stayed out until 8am. He left to catch a flight to Orlando (he was going on a family Disney World trip) and I was to head back home that afternoon. We text messaged and talked on the phone the whole week he was in Disney and when he got back we never left each other's side. Fast as it may seem, we moved in together a month after we met.
Our engagement:
I don't have the standard super elaborate engagement story that some girls have. Our engagement actually began with an argument
February 27, 2007...that is when it happened. I was looking online at different SUV's, trying to find the best fit for me. I had been discussing buying a new car with Adam, who is very opinionated on the subject. He was very negative about the car I had in mind, saying it was a cheap brand of car, blah blah blah. It made me mad! I really liked it!
The argument continued through to dinner, where we were eating at a local Mexican restaurant. I barely spoke (or ate) during the dinner. He kept giving me this weird look. And I was like, "What? Say whatever it is you are thinking." He just shook his head and said, "It can wait." So we drove home in silence and when we got back to our place, I flopped down on the bed to sulk.
He pulls a chair up beside the bed and grabs my hand. He then proceeds to tell me that no one else sees him, knows him or loves him the way that I do. That he couldn't go a day without me in his life and he would rather be arguing with me than be with anyone else. And then he asked me to marry him.
It was the most special moment ever...but boy did I feel like the biggest b****
Adam's Family
First let me start off by saying a little something about my parents. They have been married 30+ years and are great people. Nice, accepting and you can talk to them about anything. They are those funny parents that will talk to you like you are an equal, not a "kid". They have liked Adam from the beginning and always treat him with respect.
I wish that was how Adam's family was. Adam is Jewish and I am not. I knew that was going to possibly be an issue. Also, Adam has a very strained relationship with his parents (moreso with his mother though). They have never gotten along because she is not a nice person and is very very controlling.
Since I met her, she has never been nice to me. She makes rude comments to put me down (basically, she thinks I am white trash because I didn't grow up in a rich Chicago suburb - Adam told me this). When they found out we were getting married, his parents never congratulated us, but immediately began telling us how, when and where we would be having our wedding - that we were paying for OURSELVES (P.S. We are both 24 year old ADULTS!!). I won't go into what the demands were, but it was basically everything against what we (or I) wanted.
We had originally planned on a 150 guest wedding and reception at the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown Chicago, but they were turning it into a 250 guest affair that was to be a party for them and their friends. Here is a quote from them directly: "A wedding isn't for you. It is for your guests. 10 years from now, you aren't going to remember anything about your wedding." Wow...
We couldn't handle it anymore, so we decided to up and move it to Walt Disney World!!!
Coming next...The planning
...You are beautiful in your siggy.
::, all that matters anyways is that you and your DF are happy.
