425 days!

!Wow! Only 425 days away. Okay- so we still have a lot of time until we reach out big day, but I am so glad that we are waiting. This summer will be very stressful because Nick is finishing his thesis and graduating, I will be looking for a new teaching job, Nick will be pursuing a job and we will be moving (most likely to a new state). Yikes...when I type that all together it makes me feel a little stressed. Deep breaths. Just think, one year from now we will be much more established! Nick and I enjoy dreaming about out big day, it has been very fun to be engaged and enjoy the journey!

Nick and I recently read about a unique type of men's wedding ring that contains parts of a meteorite!! Yes, a meteorite....from space! Wouldn't this be perfect for Nick?

Check out the website that has the meteorite rings for sale!!
http://www.jewelrybyjohan.com/meteorite_rings.htm

As for me, I am still dreaming about what my wedding band will look like. I think we have plenty of time before we need to truly worry about that!

Lots of love!

Guitar or Cello/Violin or Both or What?

We have been dreaming about our wedding music lately. What will we have? We have a very talented friend who could sing and play the guitar. We have access to a couple local high school kids who plays cello and violin.

The cello/violin has a traditional touch and feel. Which is something both Nick and I desire. However, guitar music would just fit perfectly outside AND we love guitar music! Hmmm.....

Back to dreaming and enjoying life. 440 days left!!

THE DRESS

We got the dress! What it looks like must remain a secret until the big day! I have shown a few family and friends but Nick must remain in the dark. It's so hard to keep it a secret. I wish that I could tell Nick all about it! I know he'll love it.

I tried on 10 dresses. "The One" was the third dress I tried on. I didn't know right away but I knew that it was my favorite of all of the dresses. The second time I put the dress on, I cried. It was at that point that I knew. :)

It really feels great to have the dress!

More lovely things

I really like this little "do it yourself" project. I am thinking we could use different size glass containers and decorate them with green or purple papers. Then we could put candles inside them and it would give off a beautiful huge of color around the room. For centerpieces, we don't really want flowers at every table--- we like the idea of some tables having flowers and some with just candles....I am posting the link for the project here so I have it for the future!

Flowers

I really like this bouquet of flowers. They're beautiful! Don't you think they'd look pretty in front of a white dress? It doesn't really match the colors we have chosen for our big day but I don't think I mind that. Plus there is a nice little tutorial on how you can actually make this bouquet yourself! I am posting the link for the tutorial here so that I have it for the future! One of our family friends has actually offered to arrange the flowers for us! We are really thankful to have such helpful, ambitious and loving friends and family!!

A few engagement pictures

Nick and I took engagement pictures with our friend Sarah! We really like them!



We had fun around the Ball State campus. Although that I will admit that after about an hour and a half, my mouth was getting tired of smiling.


Nick really likes this one.


Sarah is going to edit the rest of the pictures and give us a CD with all of the images on it. I will post some more when we get them!

Enjoying Life

Well- we've been busy with regular life lately. Nick has started his new classes and began officially writing his thesis. I have had grades to enter for report cards, new classes, new students and just the day to day stuff to focus on. A reminder of why we are waiting until next year to get married. I am sure we will not regret taking this time to enjoy life.

We recently visited Wisconsin for a big Bridal Expo. During our visit we were able to tour the InnTowner where we are having our reception and visit Blue Mounds State Park where we are having the ceremony. Here are some pictures from our visit.


Blue Mounds State Park, where the ceremony will be held. We can remove the grills for the big day. And hopefully there won't be any snow in June. :)

Our parents on our trek to the ceremony site. The roads were snowed in, so we had to hike through the snow. (After we tried to drive through anyways and got stuck)


Nick, Me, Daniel, Kate, Judy and my mom at the InnTowner! We were able to walk through the area before the Bridal Expo. We feel so pumped to have already booked this spot. We LOVE it!

We are continuing to save money where we can! Our friend, Marc, is going to print our invitations for free for his Senior Print Project (he is a printing/telecommunications major...or something like that). We are so lucky to have him as a resource- all we need to do is pay for the paper!

Okay, I must refocus. Have a good day!