The Engagement

When Mike and I got engaged, we first started talking about a December wedding. I wasn't too excited about a "Christmas" wedding. So we decided for April when Mike was done with his semester up at BYU. One reason for April, was because I love the flowers around spring time. Earlier that year, I went up to women's conference with my mom and I fell in love with the Purple tulips around temple square. So I told myself then, "when I get married, I am going to do a purple wedding so I can have these flowers." Mike was okay with this idea of tulips and purple and a spring wedding. Another reason, we chose April, was because there was another couple in our ward who got engaged a little bit before us, and said that they were getting married sometime in January. So, we couldn't get married before Mike's semester. When we talked about plans for our wedding, I told Mike that I always wanted my husband to wear a white tux, he said that he always wanted to wear a white one. I was so relieved about it because I thought that I was going to have to convince him to wear white. As we were talking, we decided that we did not want to wait until April to start our lives together. So we decided we could do a weekend in February. All the weekends were taken by Stake things or family things. So we finally said we would get married of February 24, 2006 and have our reception the next day. At this time, the LA temple was closed for remodeling, so we chose the San Digeo Temple, my favorite! When I was a little girl, i told my mom that I was going to get married there. We went though the open house and I just thought it was like a castle! So lucky me, the LA one was closed!!

After we were engaged, I went to my cousin's wedding down in San Diego. Nick and Jamie, ended up having a PURPLE wedding. I didn't like it very much. Another thing, was I didn't want to have the same color as my cousin. My mom and I were talking, and as a joke she said that we should do black and hot pink as colors. I LOVED this idea. I love the contrast of the colors, and I thought that it would be fun. I called Mike (he was doing football), he said that he didn't know about the colors, but he said that he didn't care and it was my choice. So that is how we got our color scheme.

Planning was so much fun.

Choosing a dress: I picked out a dress online that I loved, but didn't want to order it because I didn't know what I would look like in it. My mom, sister, and I went down to San Bernadino to a Temple ready dress shop with my photo. When we got there, they did not have that dress. So we tried on lots of dresses that were HUGE on me. I couldn't get a feel of how they wold look on me because they were pinched in the back. So we asked if there were any smaller sample dressed on the floor. Sure enough they had two. One was a two piece, which was pretty, the other was the dress I chose. My mom and I both knew that this dress was the one. It had beautiful beading all around the waist, bottom, and very long train. It had buttons all down the back. It was very pretty. The girl asked if I wanted a vail. I said no. She told me that I had to try one on. So I did. It completed the dress. It veil was down to my knees with little beads that looked like water droplets all along the edges of it. This dress and veil were nothing I wanted for my dress. So you never know what dress you will end up with!

Choosing food: My mom talked about a wedding that she went to that had a nacho cheese dispenser. I thought that was the coolest thing ever so, we had a taco salad bar with a nacho cheese dispenser. It was SOOO yummy!! We didn't have ANY left overs.

Choosing a cake: My dad was so nervous about a cake because he heard all of his co-workers talking about how expensive it was. We heard from a friend that Sister Adams in the 3rd ward did cakes for fun! She only charged for the supplies. So we met with her and found the perfect cake. It was a white tiered cake on separate tiers with a waterfall underneath the cake with the San Diego temple on top. I did not want flowers on my cake, so Sister Adams had frosting flowers and Sister Milhone put just a few of the Gerber Daisies on the cake.

Choosing flowers: One of my clients gave me the idea of the flowers. At the time I did not have a favorite flower. I did love tulips. I told my client my color scheme and she told me about GERBER DAISIES!! So that day, I went online to see what Gerber daisies were all about. That when i fell in love with them. I love the bright colors and the look of the big daisy. So that is how Gerber daisies became my favorite flower. So my bouquet was hot pink Gerber daisies and white tulips. They were very pretty.

Choosing a center piece: We didn't want to have a big center piece, so our guests would be able to see each other. So we decided on small fish bowls with low Gerber daises and we got the fighting fish to swim in the water......it was fun!

The planning of a wedding was a lot of fun.