The Beginning

I like blogs. I read blogs, I write blogs, so it only makes sense, I think, that I should have a wedding blog. And now I do. Ta da!

Now let's see if I remember to update it...

Here is the first post and the first post should be about how it all began. Technically, it all began in 2000ish, when Ryan and I met online in various chat rooms, or 'talkers' as they were known then. We moved from talkers to AIM to phone to real life visits. Our status went from not-dating-each-other to not-really-dating-anybody-else until we caved and decided we'd been dating for a while. How crazy to think some online conversations could progress to this!

Our first visit took place in Maryland. My father (and me) picked him up from the train station and we went to a family gathering, lol. He met me and half my extended family, all at the same time! Eventually, we slipped away for dinner at TGIFridays. We talked and talked, not even quite realizing hours had passed. By the time we left the restaurant, my family had organized a search party. Oops. Rather exciting first visit, yes?

Ultimately Ryan would come to my apartment in Virginia, staying for at least a week each time. He slept on an air mattress that took up nearly my entire living room; every night, the cat would pop it with her claws and by morning it would be completely flat. Not to mention the ants and the cockroaches!

Yet somehow, when I told him I'd picked out an apartment and gave him 2 weeks notice to move from Pittsburgh, he came. And he stayed. We lived in that apartment for 3 years before purchasing a townhouse this year. We moved in November of 2009.

On May 1st, 2010, Ryan announced that he thought it was a really good day. I agreed - as good a day as any other, right? We ran errands and planted flowers. After everything was done, he suggested we go upstairs. He commented that things needed to change, then he distracted me, and when I turned back he was holding up a ring.

"Will you marry me?" he asked. I said, "For real? Really?" until he had to say "Well are you going to answer???" lol.

Obviously I said yes, because why else would I be writing this blog?

And that's how our story began. Now we'll see what happens next... We've heard wedding planning horror stories, but you know... if all of our previous adventures didn't scare him off, we should be able to figure this out, right?? :)