Jon and I met our freshman year at CMU in 2006. My best guy friend Greg and I went to school pretty much only knowing each other. We quickly made friends with a guy, Nick, and his roommates that lived in the same dorm as Greg and we all started hanging out a lot. Nick had happened to go to a leadership camp over the summer with a guy named Monty, so we all got together with Monty and his roommates to tailgate before the first home football game. Jon happened to be one of Monty's roommates, so we were introduced that day, but there were so many people hanging out with us that I don't really remember meeting him specifically. Since we had a lot of mutual friends (one of his other roommates went to high school with one of my roommates, so that was another connection), we ended up seeing each other a few more times before we actually started talking. I remember thinking he was cute, but I was too shy to talk to him. Finally, in November that year, I got an IM (yeah...I know, back when people still used AIM) from a guy named Jon. It took me a few minutes to remember who he was. We ended up talking for a long time and clicked right away. There was a big Thanksgiving dinner in our cafeteria (our dorms were connected) and we decided to get all of our roommates together to go, since everyone knew each other except Jon and I. After that, we hung out all the time and started dating in December. We had to do the long-distance thing right off the bat, since we didn't see each other over the long Christmas break. After our first semester of our sophomore year, we both decided to move back to our respective homes since we couldn't afford school anymore. He lived 4 hours away, in the UP. After 2 1/2 years, one failed attempt to have Jon live down near me, many hours spent driving to visit each other, a few months of talking about getting engaged, and a few almost break-ups, he proposed on May 15 2009. We knew we didn't want to do the whole long-distance thing for another year, so we decided to make it a super quick engagement and get married that August. It was very stressful and hard, but we did it and got married on August 15, 2009...3 months exactly after getting engaged. We definitely couldn't have pulled it off without my mom. She was amazing and basically did everything with a lot of help from friends and relatives.
Here are some pictures, not in any specific order.
Me and my beautiful mama
Cutting the cake. I made him promise not to smash it in my face, cause I'm no fun like that.
Our first dance..."The Luckiest" by Ben Folds
Me and my gorgeous bridesmaids, Tess, Catie, Katie, and Annmarie
Right after the ceremony
You may kiss the bride!
Instead of lighting a unity candle, we did sand.
My daddy walking me down the aisle.
Hanging out before the wedding.
Daddy-daughter dance.
Everyone in our wedding party. They were all so fun.
And again
Taking pictures in front of the ugly fireplace. Ha!
Jon and his guys and my dad
My and my brother and sister.
Me with the girls/leaders from our group at church. Most of us were together since we were little.
No comments:
Post a Comment