Happy New Year!!!!!

What a year it has been and what a year to come!!! 2010 was the best year ever!!! This year has been a whirlwind of love and romance and I just know that the rest of my years will be the same!
I wish you all a very happy new year, may it be filled with love, happiness and time with family! I’m grateful to God for filling my heart so much this year. I’m ready for whatever is next, but I am very happy right here!

All the best in 2011!!!

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

I have SO many things to be thankful for, especially this year. My life is extraodinary. Thank you God for all of my blessings!!!! Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!



J'adore this tree...can you imagine???



Everything's coming up roses

What is so nice about being close(r) to the wedding date is that things are really starting to come to fruition....in the beginning it was quite overwhelming with SO MANY different ideas and visions dancing in my head.

As we get closer, it is so nice that things are being finalized and don't seem so scattered any more...the HUNDREDS (and yes, when I say hundreds, I literally mean hundreds) of magazine clippings I had ripped out, all of the pictures I had saved on my laptop for inspiration are wittled down to our FINAL desicions and I LOVE that!!!

Flower Girl and Bridesmaid dresses!!!

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have chosen our delicious flower girl dresses!!! I found an AMAZING designer in Florida and designed EVERY bit of these dresses with her! These are sample pictures from the designer's website...it's not the exact dress but the style that the dresses are based on. I chose 1o layers of tulle (Yes! 10!!!) and the overlay will be all silk. The girls will also have a huge big pink bow in their hair. I got to choose the exact flower for the back and went with a big bow with a huge flower over top of the bow!

These are the BEAUTIFUL Bridesmaid dresses!!! The shorter one is what all 7 of my Bridesmaids will be wearing and the longer style is what my Maids of Honour will wear!

This is the headpiece we chose! My Maids of Honour will have a bigger flower/feather hair piece...
The swatch that you see is the dress colour!

Bridal Canvas, Picture OUR Wedding!!!

Bridal Canvas, Picture Your Dream Wedding

Sign in to see our wedding canvas!!! EVERY SINGLE thing included are actually things that we have purchased, ordered or put the down payments on for our wedding!!!

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Love Sweet Love

I CANNOT believe that our wedding is officially 6 and a half months away. After ALL this planning, our day will soon be here! What is even more crazy to me is that in 6 months I will be Ryan's WIFE!!!!!! Sometimes I just feel so overwhelmed with love and excitement, it's just too much! Sometimes I feel like I may burst with love! I don't know why I have been given such a gift. God has truly blessed me. I have found my soul mate and it is such an incredible feeling. EVERY single day I feel overwhelmed with love for Ryan. It takes my breath away! I think that I love him as much as I possibly can but it continues to grow each and every day. It is amazing. He makes me so happy. I am in stitches every day because of something he says or does. I can be myself and as silly as I want and he accepts every part of me. He actually sings with me and acts crazy right along with me, which fills our days with such happiness and laughter! We have had our own private raves, (dancing on the window sill with our phones as glow sticks)....this may have been the moment I knew he truly was the one for me! Actually, I called my sister after our first date and told her that he was "it". I just knew I found my one.....so I actually knew after our first date!!!!! You hear about that happening but I never believed it!
Ryan is gorgeous on the outside but also gorgeous on the inside. He is the most amazing person. He truly takes care of me. He is so loving and so caring and  he is constantly trying to make sure I am ok and happy. He makes me feel like I am number one, always. No one could care for me like he does and that is such an amazing feeling. I never thought I'd find someone who dotes on me more than my Mom!
I never dreamt I would find love like this. I always knew I would get married, but I really did not think I would EVER be lucky enough to meet my soul mate. I didn't think it was possible or that it even existed in real life. He is heaven to me. I love him so deeply. I am on a high EVERY day because of him. I literally feel like I am floating on a cloud. He is everything I could have ever wanted in a husband and I CANNOT believe that I get to be married to him!!!!! He truly is my happily ever after.

"You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you…and then you meet one person, and your life is changed forever."

Ring-a-ding BLING! Ice, ice baby!

This post is inspired by one of my favourite Blogs. I just had to share it with all of you because it is so true!!!
In the popular adage of life and love – First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes… – they leave out one big piece of the puzzle, without which none of the rest would be possible: the ENGAGEMENT RING. Sure, an engagement ring, no matter how pretty (ahem, big), does not a happy marriage make. There are other, far more important things that pave the road to marital bliss: trust, compatibility, friendship, TV remote sharing, and so on. But a ring’s certainly not a bad start. If for no other reason than an engagement ring is often a gent’s first big purchase for his future wife, and ideally is one in which he invests not only a lot of money but, more importantly, time and thought, the shiny token of a groom’s affection reveals a lot about the buyer, the wearer, and their past and future together.

Ryan and I often reminisce about the engagement. I love going over EVERY single detail of that night! It takes us back to that magical night and makes us feel those emotions all over again. Mushy, mushy! We will go over how the room looked, what he said, (he has to remind me because that night was a TOTAL blur for me!!!)! I find when we do this it all comes flooding back and I get all emotional EVERY time!

I love that Ryan and I designed my ring together. It makes it that much more special. We literally searched high and low for the perfect ring but to no avail. I think it was meant to be because now when I look down at this perfect sparkler, it reminds me of how we designed it together. No one else will have my ring because it was our vision. He so wanted the perfect ring for me and now I have it! My engagement ring is not only a symbol of Ryan’s love for me (all together now: aww!) but also a reflection of my love for all things big + sparkly!!!
Here's to the engagement ring!!!