Engagement Party

We had our engagement party in July 2008. I used to think that you should have your engagement party within a certain time of getting engaged to show that its 'serious.'

I've seen its the engagements that don't have engagement party within so many month that break off. So I was paranoid to make the statement 'yes, we're really getting married.'

Pfft, nuts to that! If I could do it again, I would have it a year to the day of the wedding. That way both sides of the family would have had over a year to let it sink in.

Anyway, it was still a beautiful day and I really hope our guests enjoyed themselves, and I was so greatful so many could come, because I tried my hardest to make it the least "engagement" feeling engagement party there was.

I'm not a big fan of engagement parties.

I get bored easy, so I tried to include activities and surprizes. Like painting.

Best Man Election 08.

Krispy Kreme.

Advice Book.

In the Advice book we asked. Whats is love? Give us advice.

My favourite responses were:

"What is love, baby dont hurt me, dont hurt me"

"Yes dear"

"Love is hugs" - 3 years old girl

Ring number two

Here is the second ring and here is how I was given it.

We went to Tiffany's a few weeks before hand and this was the first ring I tried on and it was perfect. I tried others on, but kept coming back to this one.

We were expecting it to arrive on the Friday, but it arrived early.

So he comes home with the ring on the Thursday and I am watching TV, probably like a slob and then, after about an hour, notice his absence.

So I call out for him and he eventually comes back out to the lounge room, picks me up and carries me into the bedroom, where he stands me up and knells again and asks me again if I will marry him. On the bed tiny tea candles in blue pink and yellow spell out Marry Me and in the middle is a little blue box.

Ring number one

This is the ring he proposed with in Montville. Its a lovely white gold ring with black diamonds and I love it. I wore it for about three months and then he proposed again with the second ring.

The weekend we got engaged

On Friday we headed up to Montville (forgetting my delicious wine, mind you) to spend a weekend in a cottage in an advocado garden.
It was beautiful.
On the Friday, the first thing we did, was go to a winery and buy some wine for me to sip (I think I had 3 glasses over the whole weekend - I dont think we finished a bottle between us, but hey, we're just not big drinkers).
We took our wine to the cottage and just chilled out on the nice-but-not-as-nice-as-ours couch. We ended up at the lovely place called Zana's for dinner (yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum). Seriously, if you're ever in Montville, go to Zana's.

On the Saturday, we got out of bed at about 10, and managed to get out of the cottage and head into Montville by about 12. We bought some candles for Earth Hour, some spicey chocolate liqueur called "Dragons crap" (great if you LOVE chili). We had lunch overlooking the view to the ocean. We spent a few hours looking at the shops, ending up with a collection of tea, lollipops and fudge. We then went back to the cottage with stuff from IGA to make our dinner.When we got back to the room, I was on the couch, wearing my peasents dress, sucking on a sour apple lollipop when Rhys disappeared to out of site. When he came back into the lounge room, he stood infront of me, reached into his back pocket, kneeled down on one knee (at which point I think I either protested or made some sound resembling no, I think I said "...But I'm sucking on a lollipop" - I'll ask Rhys) and then he said "Victoria will you marry me..." and I said "yes" and got mascara all over his face.
I have a temporary ring I've called Jr. I get the real thing on June 27th (our 3 year anniversary).We had vegetarian sandwiches for dinner and participated in Earth Hour.

On the Sunday we went down to the Lake and had sandwiches, fruit and fudge, while naming the different birds after the first country/state/city that came to mind when we saw it. There was a bush turkey I named Germany, a little birdy I called Belgium and a duck called Kentucky. We went for a random drive, that led us to a random park, where we decided to go on an impromptu 1.2 km walk through rainforest.

After the physical torture, we figured it was about time we call our parents and some of our friends to let them know about the engagement.

Photos is of the sunset we watch on the Sunday, we sat by the local lake and just watch the sun go done and played on the swings.

We're getting married. Yeah old news.

So I've finished uni, after six long years.
So what's next?
Start working.
Get married.
Travel.

We've been engaged for 9 months now, and still have 15 months to go.
Will post up the proposal(s) and planning ideas.

xo