Our Rings...

4. The ring:  tell us about it! did you pick it out? did he? pictures! tell us about his ring too!

 First engagement ring Philip picked out all by himself! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this ring. I think it fits me perfectly! It's a beautiful 1/2 Carat solitaire that I just fell in love with. These pictures are from the night he proposed! I would post close ups of just the ring, but they're on a sd card somewhere that I just don't feel like searching for, but you can tell in these pictures how gorgeous it is!

 Unfortunately when it came to finding a band to go with the solitaire we didn't have any luck. The only real option we had was putting a band on both sides of the ring and neither of us really wanted to do that. So that leads us to my actual wedding ring....

 We picked this ring out together and I absolutely love it. It's simple yet it has a little extra something to it. Plus the band isn't way thick. For everyone that knows me, I hardly wear any jewelry so I needed something that wasn't too much and this ring is it. I couldn't have been any happier with it! It's 1 carat princess cut with 2 rows of smaller diamonds leading up to the center which has 12 smaller diamonds surrounding the carat. Um in other words it's beautiful for all those who don't speak "jewelry" because I know I barely do.

 Philip's ring was a spur of the moment trip to the mall for me and I knew it was the ONE! Although I didn't buy it that day, Philip and I went in a couple weeks later and bought it. When we walked in the store Philip feel in love with it too! Plus it was only $100. SCORE! It's a black tungsten ring which means if he ever breaks that finger while wearing that ring, he is out of luck! The only one to even resize the ring is to get a brand new one (thankfully we're guaranteed that for life).

 These pictures are from our wedding! Chad Braithwaite at Faces Photography (<-- link) is amazing! Check him out!

Popping the question

3. Proposal: how it happened, how long were you engaged for? was it a total surprise?  pictures of that... etc. 

Fortunately I already really have our story on our engagement posted on a couple different blog posts so I'll put the links on here so everyone can check them out. 

Our Original Engagement Post (short and sweet) 

Longer Engagement Story plus the almost newlywed game

Philip proposed 4 years to the date when we first said our "I love yous" 

July 22, 2009 

It was the perfect proposal and fit us to a tee

I kind of expected him to propose,  I even did a search check for a ring before we got out of the car that night

When I didn't see the ring anywhere I knew it wasn't happening

The sneaky little bug hid the ring and magically put it in his pocket when he got out of the car

The song "Then" by Braid Paisley that he proposed with definitely fits our "love story"

so much that it was also our first dance at our wedding

We were engaged for 10 long months

Yes those months seemed like YEARS!

But I loved being engaged,

loved calling Philip my "fiance"

(even though it's a million times better to say "husband")

Philip's first words when proposing were "So basically"

Like I said.. Our engagement story is so ... US

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from that day.

WE'RE ENGAGED!!!!!!

July 22, 2009, Philip showed up at my house while I was taking a nap and told me to get out of my pjs "he was starving and wanted something to eat." So I literally got up put a pair of jeans on a called it good. We started driving to get some food and he went the opposite way of where we were going and I asked him why. He convinced me he wanted to go for a quick drive to my property before it got dark. Before I know it, we're up at my property and I couldn't believe what I was in for!

When we first arrived to the property he set up a projector to play on the side of the trailer (altough it was too bright so we just watched it on his computer) a homemade movie of pictures of us and Brad Paisley's song "Then." Which I absolutely love! Here's the video!





Then after that he got down on his knee and asked me to marry him! Of course I said yes!



Then it was followed up by a romantic candlelit dinner of steak and lobster prepared by my sister while Philip drove to pick me up! It was such a great meal and such a great night! I couldn't ask for anything more perfect! I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him!





We're planning to get married next May. So now you'll start seeing all the wedding details on here! :0)