Excitement

So its just about 104 days until my wedding and I'm so excited! A lot has happened planning wise recently. We've purchased vases for centerpieces, ribbon for bouquets, vases for candy, candles, made menus, made invitations, planned for the Bridal Shower...So much done and still so much to do! Tuesday I plan on Landon and I making our Music Playlist for the wedding, and for printing out invitations and getting them ready to mail.
  I cannot physically describe just how much I love this man! He is as close to perfect as he can possibly be, and he is so amazingly good. I'm so blessed to have such a good man to marry. He recently asked me if I wanted to start going to the gym with him after work, and while most women would think of his question as an insult, I jumped at the opportunity. We've been going for a few weeks and I'm already down 10 pounds!!! I hope to lose a LOT more before our wedding though. I want to be down two dress sizes. But anyway, thats all for now. Its getting late and my bed awaits my visit. Tomorrow I plan to post pictures of the invitations, menus, and everything else! So be sure to check back in!

4 Months!

Ohhh my goodness....So its just about 4 months until I'm officially Mrs. Landon Bagwell....its really exciting but its also kinda scary. I just realized how big my To Do list actually really is, and I have SOOO much left to do! I still need to get together with my bridesmaids and get their dresses. Then I need to order chair covers, and sashes, and then I need to figure out what I want for bouquets, and then theres the stuff thats not so much fun...Name Changes, paper work, boxing up stuff and moving it out, argh...theres just so much! But I THINK I can get it all done before the wedding. Its just all coming up so fast! I registered for all of our bedding, our kitchen supplies, and pretty much everything else I thought we would need. Theres just a couple of things left, but I think we're just gonna buy those ourselves. Anyway, if anyone would like to help me out with planning, and decorating, it would be greatly appreciated!! Thats all the updates for now. I should have a little more in a few weeks.

Been Awhile!

So its been a very long time since I've posted anything on here! A lot has happened since October. We had a wonderful Christmas together, and with our families. We took a few engagement pictures, and worked on the wedding plans. Landon's mother asked if she could purchase our wedding cake, and we told her that would be great! Well, when we went to look for cakes, we found that theres only ONE bakery in Clarksville, and she was going to charge us $800 for a 3 tiered cake!! So instead of getting robbed for a simple cake, I just asked my mother if she would be willing to make it for us. I showed her the cake I wanted and she agreed :) And as of today we have decided on a Wedding Date. We're getting married on June 16th at 6 p.m... I finished all my registries, and picked out my cake, I have my dress, but theres still so much to do! We're planning on a small guest arrival though which will make things easier. I also started a wedding website today too! Its at http://www.weddingwire.com/SarahandLandon There, you'll be able to read my blog, see our registry, our guest list, and so on. Theres even a few photos of us on there too! So I'll be sure to check in more often and let you all know whats going on!

My ring!!!

Last night Landon proposed :) We were in the basement hanging out and he asked me if I wanted to see something. I said sure what is it, and he said I had to guess. So I asked him for hints and after he gave me like 4 hints, I finally guessed, "is it a ring?" he said maybe,  I said "is it my ring?" he said maybe, and then he asked me if I wanted to see it, and I said "can I have it?" And he began laughing and said that I wasn't allowed to have it until December, but I could see it if I wanted to, just so I could know that he bought me one....So I said sure, let me see it....although I was a little bummed because I was expecting a proposal. So he went and got something out from under his bed, it was in a bag, and then a box, and then another box....And then his breathing became very shaky. I smiled as he gave me the opened box, and all I could say is "It's very pretty", but I didn't wanna look at it too much cause I would want it so much more. Then he asked me if I wanted it, and I just laughed and said "of course I do!" and he started laughing, and then about 5 minutes later, he looked at me and asked if I would marry him.....And I started squealing and laughing and saying yes like a million times, and he took my hand and slipped the ring on. It's the most gorgeous ring I've ever seen. It's an E on the DEF scale which means that the stone is colorless and only 2% of all the worlds diamonds are colorless. Its just over half a karat, and it has a white gold band.
                                                                             Here it is :)

 

I LOVE IT!!!!! I just think it is just so amazing and gorgeous and I am sooooo happy :)

Time for some sappy stuff...

  Alright, so recently I watched the movie P.S. I Love You....I've seen it before, but now that I'm no longer single, I think that it has a different impact on me that it did before. If you haven't seen the movie, its about a young woman named Holly ( who is played by Hillary Swank) who marries an Irish man named Jerry (who is played by Gerrard Butler), and they are married for 10 years. The movie opens up with them having an argument about something the husband had said, and she took it the wrong way. Well after about 10-15 minutes of the arguing, they apologize to each other and make up...You can just feel the love these two characters have for each other. Well, The next seen, after you fall in love with this couple, you see all these people wearing black, walking into a bar, and then you see the wife, and then you see an Urn...As it turns out Jerry has died, and they're having his funeral at a local bar. Well while the wife is grieving, she locks herself in her apartment for 4 weeks, until her Birthday, when her friends and family surprises her with a small party. She opens up the cake she received, and it says "Happy Birthday my love, love Jerry." She starts to get upset when shes handed a tape recorder that came with the cake. Jerry has recorded himself on a tape, telling her she is going to receive a series of letters from him, to help her through the grieving process.Well as the movie progresses, she gets the letters, and each one is just as loving and yet so sad as the first. As time goes by other men come into her life, and it becomes harder for her to move on.
  Through the rest of the movie, Holly visits Ireland where she first met Jerry, and visits his family, and meets a man who she finds very attractive man, but doesn't feel that its time to find someone else just yet. She goes home, and finds something that she fills up her time with...Designing shoes. And she becomes great at it, even though she begins to distance her friends. At the very end of this movie, she receives one last letter. In the letter, Jerry explains to her that it was a privilege to be her husband, and that he became a man while married to her. And then he tells her to not be afraid to fall in love again. He says that he was only one chapter in her life, but that she has many more chapters to go in hers. And she answers him back. She says that maybe one day she will fall in love again, but falling in love doesn't always has to be with a man, she fell in love with her job as a designer, and her family and her friends all over again.
  So while there is a slight happy ending there, I do think that it is a MUST see for every woman...even if you hate romantic movies. Personally it made me think. How would I be if I lost Landon after only 10 short years or sooner? Would I lock myself away from the world for weeks on end? Probably....would I hate my life? Most likely....Would I be able to move on? Well....I don't know...Right now I would tell you NO, that there was no way I would ever be able to love another man in my life.
  This movie is the saddest, most romantic, movie I have ever seen in my life and I love it. It's so very sweet. And I just love to see how her character deals with the extreme loss of her husband. I grew so attached to that couple through the movie, that I didn't want it to end. BUT anyway, I felt like I needed to talk about it :) I plan on Landon and I watching it together tomorrow afternoon while we're on our date. It's movies like this that really make you appreciate the man you have in your life.

The ring

So Landon bought my ring a couple of weeks go. We went to the jewelry store together to look at them and to get an idea of what I wanted. Well after looking and looking and talking with our great consultant, she finally said that I needed to go across the jewelry store so she could speak to him about something...I left and walked around for awhile, and some woman came up and sized my finger, and then they all told me that I had to leave the store! We were all laughing but I went out and decided to walk around and wait....When I cam back he had no bag, nothing in in hands except a piece of paper that showed the quality of diamonds on it. When I asked him what happened, he smiled and said that they were just talking about finances and things of that sort, but I KNEW he was lying. I looked at his pocket and saw a small box and I just smiled. Never said anything though. So a few days went by and he started giving me hints like "If you knew what I did for you, you would be nicer to me." And "If only you knew how much I love you...well, in December I guess you will.." So basically he totally gave it away, but he will NOT say that he purchased anything. So now I just have to wait until early December to get my ring :) We're having our engagement pictures made that month also by the most amazing photographer I know, Mrs. Allison Campbell. So hopefully this all works out and I get my ring before then ;)

The Honeymoon...

The view from Calton Hill in Edinburgh

So today Landon asked me to research places for our honeymoon. Weeeellll I went to google and typed in "Best honeymoon spots" and SO many tropical ones came up! Well he's not for the tropics, and I've had enough of them to last me for a little while. So I found two places that struck my interest. One is Edinburgh Scotland....I started looking at pictures they had on the travel site and OH MY GOODNESS is it ever gorgeous!!! The castles! The villages! The valleys! Its just simply beautiful there. 

  And then, I found somewhere that would be rather cheaper, and in a driving distance...Charleston South Carolina. I wasn't too thrilled at first, but after researching places and looking at pictures I think that it's probably one of the more beautiful places in the South. The houses are soooo old and gorgeous, and I love the whole Antebellum thing. And theres a beach, and tons of little Posh boutiques and outlets to shop at, and I just think it would be a very fun place to visit for our Honeymoon. They have super romantic carriage rides downtown, and very nice places to take walks, it just looks soooo romantic all over.  

Downtown Charleston SC