Some of my favorite Bridals.......

Our Engagement.....

Our wedding announcement that we customized on our own!!! It actually turned out pretty good.

Things are so hectic when you get engaged and start planning a wedding...getting out invitations, and getting the reception ready to go are the hard parts of planning a wedding!!!! But we are almost done and so excited that all of this is about to be completely finished! YAY:)

The one thing I realized is that once you are engaged that is when you go through the most trials with one another. This has been the hardest few months for Garett and I. To be completely honest, we both can't wait till we are just married and don't have to worry about wedding details anymore. The engagement has gone by fast, but there have been many days when it has gone by so slow.

Although I am so excited to be able to marry my best friend and love of my life for time and all eternity. We will be sealed together forever in the Mount Timpanogos Temple, and our reception is held in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in the Empire room.

We plan to go on our honey moon to Orlando Florida, to play at Walt Disney World. We will leave after the wedding and stay for a week! We are so excited!

Thank you to everyone who has been so wonderful through this whole planning process. We are so grateful to have many wonderful friends and wonderful families, we appreciate you all so much!

How we got engaged.....

Garett took me up to Yellowstone with him and his family for a couple of days to camp. I did not know the proposal was happening up there. Garett took me to the Yellowstone rive the day we were leaving back to Utah. We walked down by the river and took some pictures together and held hands and walked a little. He then grabbed on to me and told me that he wanted to take some different kind of pictures. All I remember is that Garett looked so nervous. It took him some time to propose, but he looked at me and he then got down on one knee and asked if I would marry him. And I did say "yes", and then I looked at him as the most gorgeous ring was still sitting in the box, and I asked him..."are you gonna put that on my finger or am I?" We both started laughing, and he got up and kissed me. And then we took some more fun pictures with the ring! On the way back to utah, we did talk about our relationship and the mission, and I told him I was gonna go on a few dates to make sure this was right, and that he needs to focus on his mission for the next two years. We had a rough chat but we both came to an agreement.

This first year of his mission was so hard for me, and I did date quite a bit. But in the end I got my answer confirmed and now wedding plans are on there way and I couldn't be happier.

Garett is now home from his mission. He returned home last September 2010, and we started dating right away. We did push back the wedding to February 12th, but now that is suddenly just around the corner. We were a success story!!!!

How we met....

We met a while back in the ward at College Terrace apartments. One night there was this guy who had gotten evicted from College terrace, that he got upset and came back to try and stir up some trouble. All the boys in the ward was asked to stay with a girls apartment. Well I was at my friend's apartment, where Garett and his roommate Jeff were asked to go. I met Garett that night in my friends apartment and he was so shy and so quiet. I don't think I heard one word really come out of his mouth. He would just shake his head yes or no when I asked him a question. And for all of you who know me, know that I can talk up a storm especially when its an awkward silence. Well I talked for four hours straight, sense no one else would really say anything! At about 3 or 4 in the morning we all departed and I really truly though that I would never see him again.

Well a few months passed, and my friend Kyla and I were pretty much the social butterflys of the ward. We would go around College Terrace and just knock on doors for people to come out and play games with us. One night, we went to Garetts apartment and knocked on his door to ask him and his roommates to come out and play some night games with us. We were shocked that they did. Garett and I after that started to hang out all the time, and we pretty much became best friends. Garett and I started talking about everything and doing pretty much everything together, you could say we were inseperable. I remember I had started to like him, but was still coming out of a bad relationship, that I wanted to take things really slow. Garett kept asking me if I was dating yet, and I would always reply with "no not right now, still taking my time..." I didn't think much of it.

Well a few months later, he started dating this other girl, who I really was not a big fan of. He was always ditching me for her, and it started to really bug me, but I did not know why. Garett and I stopped talking for about two months, and he came back to me after two months had passed and told me that he had ended things with that girl, and that he had missed me. We talked about everything that had happened with that girl and him, and we agreed to start over with a fresh slate. After that whole situation, Garett and my friendship started growing even more then before. We hung out everyday, every night, and every second. He really truly did become one of my best friends.

A few weeks had passed and my best friend had come to town, I was trying to hook her up with Garett, because I believed that Garett deserved someone special. Well they were both pretty stubborn about hooking up, and it drove me crazy. In the couple of weeks she was here we went on many double dates, Garett and Amanda and then me and Austin. He also recieved his mission call in that amount of time, and at his opening that's when things started hitting me that he was leaving and I started to cry. I thought it was weird I was crying over that, if we were just friends. After Amanda had left back to California, Garett and my relationship started to get more serious, but neither of us wanted to admitt that we both liked each othere quite a bit. Garett and I call this our "denial" phase of the relationship. Everyone in the ward thought we were dating, so we thought we would pull a prank on them, so we changed our facebook status to in a relationship with each other. The very next day, we were officially in a relationship with each other. The joke was on us!

Garett had admitted when we got engaged that he had liked me from the beginning, when I was oblivious to it all! I can say though that having someone to love that was your best friend at first is way better then not knowing someone at all!