Engagement and Wedding

Here is the short version of our engagement and marriage. Kreed and I met on October 8, 2008 at the weekly Swing Dancing held on campus. We immediately hit it off and went on out first date withing an hour of meeting. After that night we were almost inseparable. We had lots of fun learning how to swing dance, watching movies, and playing games and going water skiing with his family. We dated on and off for about 10 months before he finally proposed. Kreed proposed on July 23, 2009. That night Kreed came to pick me up for our weekly dance with a bouqet of my favorite flowers (white tulips). I did not expect this was going to be the night because the stinker told me that the ring would be ready the next day. After dancing we went back to my apartment to just relax. He reminded me that we forgot to go sit by the temple that night like we usually did before he took me home. We went up and parked in the temple parking lot. All of a sudden he asked me to dance. So he rolled down the window so we could still hear the music and we danced in the moonlight to our song. When the song ended, he dipped me romantacly and then knelt on one knee. He proposed and of course I cried and could barely speak my answer. We went back to my apartment to see how long it would take my roommates to figure it out. I practically had to wave my hand their face, but when they saw the ring they did as all roommates do; they screamed and jumped up and down. Oh the fun of roommates.

We wanted to get married before I started school again in the fall so our engagement ended up only being 6 weeks long. I took off my last week of EFY and my mom came up to help me plan. In one week my mom and I (and Kreed) were able to get my wedding dress, the announcements, flowers, and engagement pictures. Kreed's mom and sisters helped me with all the little details of the Rexburg reception and my mom covered the Vegas reception. Kreed and I went to Vegas two weeks before we got married so I could take my endowments out in the Las Vegas temple. The day finally came, and we got married on September 5, 2009 surrounded by our friends and family in the house of the Lord.

We have now been married for almost 5 months, we are living in his parents basement for a little while, both going to school and working. We are so happy and love to be silly all the time. Thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout our lives.