1 year to go!!!

It's so weird to look at the countdown above and see there is only one year to go!  These last 11 months since we got engaged have flown by, I can only imagine how the next year is going to go. 

Good thing I have been busy with in the last year to get a lot of things off the to do list:
Venue - √
Photographer - √
Band - √
Dress - √
Florist - √
Save the dates - √

The save the dates were ordered on Tuesday and we hope to have them in the next week or so.  I am so excited for them, they turned out great.  A HUGE thank you goes to Michele, you know the bridesmaid who is a Yankees fan, (we won't even comment how the World Series ended - she and I will be friends again soon!)  When Marcin and I were up in New York for her birthday she took some awesome pictures of us in Central Park.  We are going to have engagement pictures taken with Sarah but we didnt want to do that until next spring at the beach.  So we started thinking about the save the dates and realized we didnt have any pictures we liked for them.  I knew Michele loves taking pictures, so it made perfect sense!  Here is a teaser of our photoshoot

A BIG thank you goes to my parents who have been a huge help through this entire process and will continue to be so throughout the next year!

Marcin, I can't wait to be your wife!  I hope the weather is as nice as it is today next year :-)

The day we got engaged...

Marcin proposed to me on December 22, 2008.  We had our friends, John and Melanie, over (You see that time it was easy for me to say "our" instead of "my", I am assuming that's because they were Marcin's friends first!) Sorry I diverted again - ok starting again

John and Melanie came over for a Christmas dinner, where we drank lots and lots of wine, at least I did!  Melanie brought her fabulous home-made pierogies for Marcin and we had a great time.  They left around 10:00 and Marcin asked if we could exchange an early Christmas present.  I only got him one big thing, so I didnt have anything little to give him.  So I told him I would give him his card, and I would take a gift! haha

My gift was perfume, Ralph Lauren Romance and he loved his card, because of course I wrote a long, sappy note in it.  He quickly closed it and told me to get my coat and dress warm, he had something to show me.  He gave me some line about the city having this cool Christmas thing.  After some arguing on my part, because it was FREEZING, we headed out on a little adventure and ended up on the steps of the Art Museum. 

You see, one night way back in the beginning of our relationship, Marcin and I went for a walk and stopped at the top of the Art Museum steps.  I told him this was my favorite place in the city because of the view and then we never mentioned it again.  HE REMEMBERED!!!!

It was perfect - he got down on one knee and I felt the urge to cry, but couldn't because my tearducts were frozen!  There is one thing you have to realize about the art museum - it is always crowded, no matter what time of day.  There are at least a million people running up the steps like Rocky or at least 2 million cars driving in front of it.  But not at that moment - there was literally NO ONE around but he and I with the Christmas Lights from the Cira Center.

It was a moment I will remember forever.  Here is me with a red nose from the cold.

Here is the Cira Center and my beautiful ring

I started a blog!!!!

So this my first post and I am completely new to this whole blogging thing.  Marcin and I went out to dinner with friends back in June, when I was unemployed, and our friend Shannon suggested I start blogging about my our wedding planning.  I was going to call it "The Unemployed Bride".  I started looking around at wedding blogs and quickly came to realize that there are MILLIONS of them out there and why would anyone care what I had to say about my wedding planning?  So I didn't do it. 

But over the last couple weeks I have been inspired by other brides, aka "Knotties", as girls on theknot.com refer to themselves (I cannot get used to the lingo, it's all kind of weird to me).  So I decided to start one. 

Coming up with a name was challenging for me, as I am not creative at all in that area, so I would like to thank my our friend Sarah for this one!  I really am trying not to be a bridezilla, although my mom told me last week that I was being a crazy bride, and I took offense to it - A LOT!  So while I don't necessarily think the name is fitting for me, I thought it was fun!

Since Marcin and I have been engaged for almost a year - holy crap, I just realized that!!! I can't believe it's been a year!!!!  Ok sorry, i diverted - since we have been engaged for almost a year a lot of the bigger decisions have already been made.  So my first few posts will be about things that have already happened.  But we still have over a year to the wedding, so there is still lots of planning to be done! 

My Our wedding is November 6, 2010!

PS Yes at times, I still say my wedding, and Marcin is always quick to point it out :)