how he did it...

the Cabo Engagement

Here are the two videos that took place right after Nick proposed!!! We were walking back from the proposal spot on the beach when the filming begins...

A Million plus One

Geez. There is a lot of planning involved for this whole wedding thing. And it seems we can't do much until we've selected a wedding site. Of course, the main question we've been asked is, "Have you set a date?" or, "So when are you getting married?" The question was asked within 20 minutes of our being engaged, and what feels like a million other times since then. So here goes: August SOMETHING, 2011. That's about as far as we've gotten. I think we've given ourselves enough time to plan- 18 months seems really far away, and the few people I've called regarding wedding stuff are all really surprised when they hear about the month and year we have in mind and the fact that I'm calling already. So I think we are good. For the first couple of weeks of our engagement, I'm pretty sure I did the typical thing of a newly engaged female. I bought a bunch of wedding magazines and poured over everything. I'm over it now. I know wedding planning is supposed to be overwhelming, and I am fairly confident I'm not the Bridezilla-type, but geesh, I'm already feeling slightly overwhelmed, and hel-lo, we have over a year and a half to go! I was never the 9 year old who had her dream wedding entirely planned out by age 11. This is what I know about myself so far: 1. I hate poofy dresses; 2. as much as I love champagne, I don't love a champagne fountain, or any fountain intended for guests to drink from or eat; 3. I won't make Nick take dancing lessons; and 4. I don't really want to get married in a church. At this point we have some general ideas...very general. We have a pretty thorough guest list and have a few locations in mind. Of course, being the dessert fiend I am, I already have some thoughts about where the cake's coming from an what kind. This weekend we are going to check out one of the main places we like, and if we're sold may be able to book it next month. Or so the booking people tell us. We'll keep you posted :-)

Oh. My. God.

For those of you who've followed our other blog and well, know us, Nick and I are engaged!!! Holy crap!

It all happened on Christmas Eve. We spent the holidays in Cabo, and it was quite the trip of "firsts": first time not going back to Michigan for Christmas, the first time really NOT celebrating Christmas, my first time in another country (Canada does not count, in my book- up until recently I could get in with my driver's license), and indeed, my first (and if I have it my way, only) time getting engaged.

We were lounging oh so very luxuriously near the infinity pool, glass of some undoubtedly alcoholic beverage in hand, and Nick goes "want to take a walk on the beach?" "Sure," I say, "let me just get my camera."

"Oh, you don't really need to bring that," is his response.

So the two of us walk along, soaking in the amazing views, and headed toward dark rocks protruding from the ocean. We stopped when we could no go further. I turned to the ocean because truly, I was in awe of how gorgeous it the whole scene was! Of course I was rambling away about how much I loved the view. I took a moment of silence and behind me I hear, "Baby?" I turned. And this is when everything went into slow motion- Nick reached into his pocket, and as he's doing so goes down to one knee. My first thought before the words came out was, omg. He pulled out a little black box. My thought: probably just earrings in that box, right? And then he said "will you marry me?" and pops open the little box. Even then I was almost in disbelief. Even when I saw the diamonds glittering away.

"Oh my god. YES! Oh my god. *we hug* Oh my god. Ohhhh my god.