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What is your name? FI's name? (sharing this is optional)
Sarah and Jon
Your ages?
I just turned 27 on July 1 (He proposed on my b-day!) and Jon is also 27.
Wedding date?
October 2012
How long have you been with your FI?
4 years, engaged for 1 month.
Where do you live? (city)
We live in the Kenosha area.
Where are you getting married? Venue?
Haven't nailed that one down yet. I'm pretty picky which is hard to do on a budget, but we are looking at a few places in Milwaukee.
How did you meet your FI?
We met on suicidegirls.com and started casually chatting. We both liked a band that was playing at Summerfest that year and we met up at the show. A couple days later we realized that we had gone to elementary school together and were in the same year and some of the same classes. Small world!
What are you most looking forward to with the wedding?
Being married. I knew he was the one after a couple months, as silly as that sounds. And the party will be awesome too.
What is your favorite wedding planning idea/purchase?
We're a little offbeat and we have bits and pieces of awesomeness everywhere. We have had the most fun, so far, picking out music for different parts of the ceremony and reception.
What do you do for a living/dream job?
This fall I am finishing up my last semester of nursing school. I'm a CNA and health unit coordinator but I can't wait to be done with all that and get my RN license. My dream job currently is to be a labor and delivery nurse.
Any random thing you want to share with us? I can't decide what color my hair should be for the wedding. I am naturally dark blonde (you know, that color that everyone who has it hates) and I have had every color under the sun and in various combinations: light blonde, brown, black, pink, purple, and red. Currently, it is a very, very bright red. This is, so far, my biggest dilemma. Haha.
Share your proposal story.
I'm not very patient. I'm an imperfect person. I pestered him for a long time before I promised I would stop because he said that I was going to ruin his plans. And so I did stop... mostly.
My FI is a man of many, many talents and hobbies. He is a magician, licensed bartender, origami artist, graphic designer, balloon animal maker, punk rock music enthusiast, etc. Unbeknownst to me, for the last 2 1/2 years he has been folding 1,000 origami cranes for me. He only worked on it while I was at school or work. As the legend goes, if you fold 1,000 cranes your wish would come true. 1,000 cranes is also a common wedding gift in China to wish a thousand years of happiness and prosperity upon the couple.
Anyway, On my birthday, we had plans to go to dinner with my family and then have friends come over for a little party. While we were at dinner he had arranged for my best friend to go to our place and arrange the cranes. When we got home I was shocked! They were everywhere! Cranes of varying sizes and colors were scattered all over the floor, couch, tables and chairs. It was like magical 3D confetti everywhere! They were arranged on the table with the ring in the center. It took me a moment to see the ring with all of the cranes everywhere! =) Then he walked me over to the table and said some wonderful things to me and asked me to marry him. Yay!
The best part (well maybe not the best part) was that I had pretty much convinced myself that it wasn't going to happen on my birthday and had pretty much forgotten about the whole thing so I actually was surprised!
Also, my ring is pretty kick ass. We had picked it out together a while ago and it was a little bit customized so it was/is really cool to see it all together. It is a round cut solitaire with 3 small bands micro set with black diamonds. It is perfect and so beautiful.
It was nice since my family was all there soon afterward to have cake so we could share the news with them right away and then right after that, all my friends came over for a party. Perfect timing!
It was perfect and lovely and wonderful and totally worth the wait! =)
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