KellyJo18
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2007
I've been productive lately when it comes to wedding planning and thought it was about time I posted a planning journal. I have been occasionally posting on the boards since January when I found out it existed but never properly introduced myself. I figured it was about time I started sharing some ideas instead of just stealing all of yours
How we met
My DF (Mike, 25) and I (Kelly, 24) met during our sophomore year of high school through mutual friends. Actually, the first moment we met I had just finished working at a fish fry fundraiser, definitely not looking or smelling my best I'm sure. I'm surprised that didn't scare him off Over the years we became good friends with him occasionally asking me out and me continuously claiming that I just wanted to be friends. The night before we both left for separate colleges I remember feeling a lot more upset than I had expected. We still talked even though we were at schools nine hours apart but the conversations slowly died down during our first semester away. We found ourselves at the same party over Christmas break of our freshman year and our friendship quickly got back on track. We started talking constantly once we returned to school and a month after Christmas break Mike decided to make the nine hour road trip to visit (the first of many). Now it's five years later and we are finally ready to say 'I do' with our own DFTW.
The proposal
If four years at separate schools hadn't been hard enough, Mike decided to stay at school for another two years to work on his Masters degree, which meant our long distance relationship would continue. After completing my year long student teaching internship I wanted to celebrate and decided to visit him at school. Towards the end of my visit we went to a nearby beach on Lake Superior. This wasn't a typical beach with sand but with a shore completely covered in rocks. Mike and I sat down to wait for the sun to set and we began looking at some of the rocks knowing that some rare stones can be found along the shores in the area. I had no idea how to tell one rock from another so I kept showing Mike different stones asking "what about this one??" After about an hour of sitting there talking the sun began to go down. Mike turned to me and asked "what about this one?" but instead of one of the rocks from the beach, as I was expecting to see, he was holding a ring in his hand.
So here we are, engaged since August and only a few months left until we are Mr. and Mrs. :
How we met
My DF (Mike, 25) and I (Kelly, 24) met during our sophomore year of high school through mutual friends. Actually, the first moment we met I had just finished working at a fish fry fundraiser, definitely not looking or smelling my best I'm sure. I'm surprised that didn't scare him off Over the years we became good friends with him occasionally asking me out and me continuously claiming that I just wanted to be friends. The night before we both left for separate colleges I remember feeling a lot more upset than I had expected. We still talked even though we were at schools nine hours apart but the conversations slowly died down during our first semester away. We found ourselves at the same party over Christmas break of our freshman year and our friendship quickly got back on track. We started talking constantly once we returned to school and a month after Christmas break Mike decided to make the nine hour road trip to visit (the first of many). Now it's five years later and we are finally ready to say 'I do' with our own DFTW.
The proposal
If four years at separate schools hadn't been hard enough, Mike decided to stay at school for another two years to work on his Masters degree, which meant our long distance relationship would continue. After completing my year long student teaching internship I wanted to celebrate and decided to visit him at school. Towards the end of my visit we went to a nearby beach on Lake Superior. This wasn't a typical beach with sand but with a shore completely covered in rocks. Mike and I sat down to wait for the sun to set and we began looking at some of the rocks knowing that some rare stones can be found along the shores in the area. I had no idea how to tell one rock from another so I kept showing Mike different stones asking "what about this one??" After about an hour of sitting there talking the sun began to go down. Mike turned to me and asked "what about this one?" but instead of one of the rocks from the beach, as I was expecting to see, he was holding a ring in his hand.
So here we are, engaged since August and only a few months left until we are Mr. and Mrs. :