Congrats.  But we seriously need more info. 

:) What praytell, can I give you for information?

ill tell you how it came to be I guess...but maybe you want more details about wedding ideas? IDk...lol...i almost hesitate to post this cause i feel like there are not words to do justice to the way i feel of the confidence that I have that this is the best thing int he world for me...haha. I feel like If i describe the events the feelings and moments will get lost in the words, but i shall try...

So, his name is Mike and We met last summer when he started coming to my church. We kinda got to know each other that way (we saw eachother twice a week for services/bible studies.) Then on new years eve, I was hosting a party at my house and everyone bailed on me, except mike and one other person so i canceled the party. So Mike called me up and asked me out. I said yes and i recall  fretting about if it would send him "the wrong message" if I wore  make up since I never wear make up and I didn't want him to think that I was thinking of it as a date if he was just trying to make me not feel to bad that my party was canceled. (hehe I later found out he worried about similar things getting ready for that first date but that he was indeed hoping it would be a date.) The new years date was the start of getting to know eachother much better but ended hilariously and anticlimactically when we parted ways at 11:58, not noticing the time till we were in our separate cars. Which we laughed about a few days later;) A few days later it was Sunday and he asked me out for coffee after church- so on the way to the coffee shop, i totally split the front of my jeans!!! Lol...I was embarrassed but wanted to hang out with him so I just tried to keep my coat covering me, of course I just HAD to tell him why I was hiding behind everything and such...haha...good times. anyways we stayed and talked for quite a while at coffee and got to know we had even more things in common...a few days later on Wednesday night, he asked me out to the best local vegan restaurant in Connecticut. I was SOOOO impressed that he went to the trouble of finding a place to ask me out that was vegan!

So...like the next day or two I couldn't stop thinking of him so i texted him to ask him where I might go in hartford if I wanted to "bump into" him that day....and we met at Borders book store. this is when i KNEW I was falling in love. that day sitting there drinking terrible Seattle's best coffee and looking into his beautiful steely grey eyes.

But then he got sick. With a terrible cold...and one of my favorite things to do for friends is make food for them when they are sick. SO. of course i made him soup! I brought it over to him along with some emergance-C. He was sick for a few days and one night he sent me the "so are we official" text and bla bla bla...i flipped out with joy. YES!!!!!

So....haha...as he was getting over being sick, he came over one night and we had a lovely fire going in the fireplace, popcorn and well it was lovely. that night we shared our first kiss and he also told me that he loved me. He had known it for quite some time I guess and I was not freaked out that he was telling me this so soon because the first time that i kissed him i got this peaceful feeling all over my body and my soul just KNEW beyond all doubt that I was going to spend the rest of my life with this man. I think that was on January fifteenth? But, that night I did not feel like I was IN LOVE with him yet, rather I was in like. Lol.

A few days later I was awake allllll night after seeing him. i could not sleep because I could not stop thinking about him and I realized I truly loved him. And i loved him more than i have ever loved anyone. i used every ounce of will power I had not to drive over to his house at 2:30 in the morning and instead was there just after sunrise to tell him to come down stairs I had to see him. There I professed my love to him! :)

From that point we decided that he just HAD to meet my family and I met his dad (who lives here in Ct) so we drove up to Maine and he met my family...that went great- my family loved him and he could stand my family and I realized he and my dad (who I am close to) are really similar. On the way home He asked me to marry him after we had a long four hour talk about marriage and how we felt about each other. Haha! But we were determined not to count that as the official proposal. It was this past weekend that he went up to my dads house to ask his blessing. Which my dad overwhelmingly gave! We drove back sunday afternoon and it took five hours because we missed an exit cause we were so busy talking. I knew he had the ring in his pocket and when we stopped at a nice Italian restaurant i was sure he was going to ask me there...but he didn't! hahah

So, We went to a superbowl party of some mutual friends...but neither of us are terribly into football and just went to make an appearance. And left shortly after halftime. before he brought me home we stopped at this nice park and he said "lets go for a walk" and I wasn't so sure cause it was COLD outside! And I wasn't sure if this was another trick like the restaurant...hahah. i didn't want to freeze for no good reason. But i decided to walk with him after all and we strolled for a few minuets before deciding it was way too cold. haha, turned to leave and he caught my arm and said ....

well, what he said is for me to know and you to wonder about but it fell into the lines of that he loves and will always love me and wanted to spend his life with me...got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I said "absolute yes!" hahah. We went back to his truck and as we were kissing all these fireworks started going off! How perfect is that? lol...I guess it was the superbowl fireworks somehow, but it was perfect timing! hahhaha

Anyways, we know it has been a short courtship but it just feel so right. Ive never felt this way in my life and we both just know beyond doubt that we want to spend the rest of our lives together. We have the blessing of our partents and of our church and I am so so so looking forward to spending my life with this man who has truly become my best friend.

Thank you all!!! :)>>>  :)>>>

So, I'm home sick. :( way to spend the first valentines day together...ha ha, actually hes headed over with orange juice and stuff and is going to try to nurse me back to health...theres probably not a more perfect want to spend the day...But, being sick means i have time to tell you about the wedding plans!!!!

So, the date is tentatively set for June 27th, a sunday afternoon. Its going to be outdoors with the ceremony and the reception at the same spot. SSO far the plan is this state park not far from me with a sandy/beachy lake and a private feel. (and best of all, public toilets so I dont have to rent!) But I have to do some more checking on t hat to make sure it will work out for us...

I want the feel of the occasion to be more like a family reunion or a sunday get-together of friends and family than a traditional wedding. :) I'm telling folks to bring their picnic dinners and swimsuits!!! Ha ha. And although we will play some music and do the traditional dances (father/daughter, mother/son and first dance) we will mostly have recreation by playing games such as a three legged race, horse shoe toss, etc....AND....drum roll please....a talent show!!! I'm inviting my guests to share one of their talents with us. either sing a song, read a poem, etc...wont that be sweet?

I'm going to wear a flowy white sun dress (deliberately looking for one I can wear again and again...and my brides maids will be in green summer dresses accented by another summer color. Instead of a flower girl, I'm going to have a "flower processional" with both girl and boy children that I love and care about! I'm very excited about this bit. :)

Also, Guinevere and D'Artagnon will be in the wedding, probably as "fury groomsman and fury brides maid")...as a matter of fact, I'm thinking of saying any one with well behaved dogs are welcomed to bring them to the wedding...but not sure yet on that one...maybe I will just invite SPECIFIC dog friends...

alright, Ill write more about it later if youall are interested...I'm kinda wiped out feeling right now... :( i dont like being sick...