Wonder why there’s been no post lately? It’s because of all this wedding planning.

When I was a kid I always thought I knew how I wanted my wedding. After about three years of dating Adam I even looked into this whole wedding thing a lot more. I have to say that it is NOTHING like I thought it would be.

It’s WORK!

It’s fun, but it’s work. For some reason I thought everything I wanted was just going to happen. I was SO wrong.

To start things off, I really wanted to get married in April. Guess what? My church doesn’t marry at all in April. There that idea goes.  Then I decide to do May 7th but I can’t book any vendors until I get approved from the church. I was very worried about this – I didn’t NOT want to get approved. Fortunately, we did and May 7th is our date.

Right after I got my date, I had to grab my favorite photographer.  This is the one part that has gone oh so right so far. I contacted Amy Carroll and she was available on my day! There was no need to meet up with her or give her a call, I knew I already loved everything about her. She was my friends photographer last year and I LOVED every single photo. She is not only the coolest, most stylish and most talented person, she also made my friends day that much better. She has an amazing personality that is completely worth her price.

You all really need to visit her website here -

I wasn’t able to get the hall I wanted – they were already booked. I have now learned to just take things as they come.

The most important thing is that I’m going to marry the love of my life and I’m going to have fabulous picture to document the day.

So, at long last, our trip had to be over at some time. We were sad to go. The cabin had so much more meaning to us now. We arrived there as a boy and a girl who had been dating for five years and left engaged. It’s hard to say that this wasn’t the best weekend of my life. I had Adam all to myself.

The months to come are going to be stressful, fun, exciting and memorable. I can’t wait to experience it all.

I will now leave you with the photos taken the last day of our trip – the first day of our engagement.

Adam took this lovely photo of a butterfly that stopped to say hello.

Although it was pretty cold right next to lake Michigan, we had to take a stroll.

I LOVED that imprints that the waves made in the sand. SO pretty.

There is SO much beauty in Michigan. I love this place.

I just had to get a picture of the exposed roots from these trees. I think they look super cool.

I thought this log look prehistoric so I just had to snap one (or fifty) photos of it.

Super cool bird. He/She was diving in and out of the water the whole time we were there.

Just another little piece of beauty that Michigan offered that day.

Literally the only photo of the two of us from this trip. Guess I’ll have to wait until we can get some engagement photos done.

Adam and his Northern Pike! I thought this thing was HUGE! He looked mean too.

I am seriously going through Manistee/Adam withdraws. I can’t wait to go back up in the years to come with my soon to be hubby!!

So, being a girl, I’ve always wondered when I would be getting engaged. After I started dating Adam I thought about it more and then in the past two years it’s almost always been on my mind. The when, the where, the how.

I met Adam when I was a sophomore in college. We started dating about two months after we met and as they say, the rest is history.

On Friday, May 7th Adam went to my parents to ask permission to marry me. The three of them then went to my Godfather (and jeweler) to purchase my ring. The fact that he did all this with my parents means more then he will ever know. I am the only girl. I am the baby. I know this has to be hard on both of them because a lot of changes will be happening. In their eyes I am still their little five year, old curly-haired girl playing in the backyard. BUT I am KNOW that they love Adam and know that I will always be their little girl.

Anyways … For Adam’s graduation I took him to Manistee for some relaxation and for some good fishing. Little did I know that he had something up his sleeve.

Throughout Saturday and Sunday he would be making weird comments about getting engaged and such, that really, just annoyed me. In my mind I was saying that he shouldn’t be talking like this if he didn’t indeed to do it.

On Sunday he was really trying to get me to bait my own hook with a worm. For those of you who know me, I HATE getting my hands and nails dirty. This doesn’t mean I’m a princess and hate the outdoors, it just means I hate dirt under my nails.

I kept telling him no and that I really didn’t need to do it myself (I mean come on, isn’t that what he’s there for).

Finally, on Sunday night, he told me he didn’t think I could do it. So, of course, I got up and went to the lake and grabbed my fishing pole. He proceeded to grab the camera because he wanted to document me baiting the hook.

I go up to where the bait box is and, surprisingly,  open it to find the most amazing ring I have ever seen. I was seriously in shock. I couldn’t move. I didn’t know what to do. I was SO overcome with so many emotions that I just stood there with my mouth open.

Once I came to and could hear, I understood that Adam was asking me to marry him. I am ALMOST positive he didn’t really need to ask me that question but he did and I said yes.

The thing that is making me smile continuously is not the ring, it’s the fact that there is somebody in this world that wants to spend the rest of their life with me.

I couldn’t be more happy. Adam is the love of my life and I get to spend the rest of mine with him.

Let the wedding planning began!