This is exciting for you (or should be!) because it gives you the awesome opportunity to hear from another person who is planning her wedding--you'll get her perspective, details on how she's keeping it budget-friendly (I can already tell you we have different approaches), and her advice to help and entertain you!
Erin, our lovely budget bride from the PNW has a fantastic story to tell, but I'll let her do that ...
I’m a planner. I had my life all figured out when I was little. Grow up, go to college. Meet the perfect man of my dreams who would bring me flowers just because. After two years of wedded bliss, we’d have a cute little boy. Two and a half years later, we’d have twin girls. Anyone who has ever read the Sweet Valley High books knows exactly why I planned it that way.
Life doesn’t always turn out the way you plan it though. Life is a journey and an adventure. When you least expect it, but just when you’re ready for it, you’ll meet the one who will be by your side through all of life's twists and turns. My fiancé and I just know that we were meant to spend our lives together.
But it hasn't always been that way. In fact, sometimes we joke that our story is the stereotypical romantic comedy where the audience knows, way before the couple does, that they're supposed to be together.
About 15 years ago, Robert and I met when he gave my boyfriend, Sam, and me a ride home in his clunker of a car. Throughout the year and a half that Sam and I dated in high school, Robert and I became pretty good friends as well.
In 2000, after freshman year of college, Robert and I grew even closer as he would visit with me and help me work on getting my car up and running. He became one of my best friends then. We dated for a couple of weeks then decided that we were better off friends.
In July of 2003, our son, Austen, was born. Robert and I decided to share custody and focused on being the best parents that we could be on our own. Over the next seven years we learned the life lessons that we needed to so that we could come to appreciate each other even more. I was completely oblivious to any signals that Robert was sending my way, and Robert had no clue that I was interested in possibly pursuing a relationship. The timing was never quite right. We weren't quite ready to take that leap.
A picture Erin's son drew of his family.
On October 28, 2010, we finally officially started dating. Our friends and families let out a collective sigh of relief and both of us heard the phrase "It's about time" too many times to count.
For our year anniversary, Robert asked me to be his wife. Now, instead of planning my life with the white picket fence, I’m planning a wedding. I’m planning an amazing party for our friends and family to celebrate the craziness that is our story.
I can honestly say that I’ve never been happier than I am now.
Stay tuned for next week, when I’ll fill you in on our wedding plans and all of our fun DIY stuff!
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