The beginning

One weekend in November 2010, while visiting our families in Maine, my boyfriend called me and explained that he would be spending a bit of money on our joint account. When pressed why, he told me he was buying a keggerator. I rolled my eyes copiously, hoped to God he was lying, and kept helping distracting my father who was fixing my car.

While heavily anticipating Chinese food delivery after our drive back to Boston the following night, said boyfriend appeared in the living room of our apartment nervously giggling with his hand clenched tight around something. He pulled out a sparkling diamond, said some words now forgotten to both of us, and asked me to marry him. I said YES! We celebrated, ate dinner, and called our families. Their first question (logically) was, "When's the wedding?" To which we eloquently replied, "Uhhhh...."

Later that evening we sat down to figure out when a wedding could happen. We would be paying for most of the wedding ourselves, so the bank account foretold a wedding in the distant future. There were possible plans of a return to school for the now-fiance and wedding plans in the works for the following summer for my best friends from college, so not for awhile. For the time being, "Somewhere down the road" was a good enough response. We're young, so who cares if it happens soon?

We now have a date. Twelve months and two days from now. As of today we have been engaged for twenty months. Go ahead, do the math. Our engagement will be a grand total of 32ish months!

Long engagements mean many things: the opportunity to thoroughly research venue and vendor options, time to craft some stuff myself, the opportunity to save some money through early booking, etc.

They also mean: SO MUCH TIME to drive myself crazy looking for ideas. Namely, through watching obscene amounts of TLC wedding shows (much to my fiance's chagrin), reading magazines, and reading wedding blogs. 

At a year out, I'm trying to wean myself off of thinking up new ideas. We've already infused our nerdy, fun-loving selves into our plans that are starting to come together and I'm looking forward to sharing them with you as they develop!