After 5 different venue visits, lots of number crunching, tedious contract editing, and numerous other important decisions: Olive Dude and I officially set our date (6/9/12) today. Woo!

Olive Dude and I weren’t particular about what date we got – we just wanted something in June. BUT – two cool things about the date we got: (1) It is my great-grandmother’s (who passed) birthday. She was VERY religious so Olive Mom’s side of the family thinks that it’s a great blessing, and (2) I’m a weird person and figured out that 6+9+12=27 … the 27th is Olive Dude and my “unofficial” anniversary date in September, and a lucky number for both of us.

To be honest, I did not find the process of picking a venue to be enjoyable at all. I think that’s mostly because at first, I wasn’t sure what I wanted and thought I liked things about certain places, but really didn’t. I figured that the place didn’t matter as much as the people and the celebration – a thought that Olive Mom was NOT in agreement with (and, to relate to my earlier post about ‘loving’ two places – 1 got nixed due to a lack-luster Plan B, and Olive Mom did not like the other for it’s price)

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When Calla Lily Lovebug and I first got engaged we were on vacation. It was lovely and amazing and everything you want for an engagement, right? The only problem (and I so use the word problem lightly here) was that it was all such a fairy tale. We’re at the beach, just got engaged, no obligations, no work to go to, no school to worry about, essentially: HEAVEN!

Lovebug proposed on a Wednesday and we went back to reality on Monday. It was a lovely fairy tale. Here, let me show you:

Ahhh, memories I’ve always told myself that I would never be a bridezilla. And it seemed that this would be perfect. He proposed two years in advance of when we had discussed getting married so we had all the time in the world to plan! Right?

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