Our Engagement

Several moments lead up to the point of "let's really do it!"
...wholeheartedly talking about getting married when we were driving back from Olivia's (Amanda's cousin) Bat Mitzvah
...Jonathan being away so long on a cross country trip Amanda thought how lonely the apartment felt
...Jonathan on this trip missing Amanda and thinking "should I buy a ring?"
...Jonathan arriving back from trip saying, "close your eyes I have lots of presents for you!"
...Amanda thinking, "holy #$&! this is it!" She closed her eyes: it was a t-shirt from Yellow Stone Park (very cute, but not a ring), a second time: another very adorable shirt saying "Got Moose?" Well no, got ring? And then a third time, eyes shut, this is really it: TADA!! A stuffed moose! Amanda gingerly said the next morning, "You know, I thought one of those was going to be an engagement ring." Jonathan confessed he thought about it but decided in the end not to buy one, because what if she didn't like the one he picked out? Together we found the perfect ring. He did get down on one knee in Gramercy Park (with tape on the back of the ring because it had not been sized). As with most things pertaining to us, it's a comedy of errors!

Able to check things off our list

I love being able to check things off the wedding to-do list. Rings. Venue. Invitations. Of course we have nothing in hand or contracts with anyone but hey, those are details to be ironed out soon enough. It's three and half months away, when we first got engaged in June, we though surely six months was plenty of time, that was two and a half months go. And we have three things checked off. Three. 3.

We're doing well.

A couple of hours later I remember back in June...

That two other things were checked off! My dress and the dresses my Ladies of Laughter and Sanity (new and improved names for bridesmaids) have been selected! Yes! We are rolling along!

posted by Amanda