The Wedding, Part I

Actually this post is the prequel to the wedding. Before I jump into the wedding, I need to start off with a little back story. (Mike Twilleager you are rubbing off on me.)

The Proposal

Mike "Proposed" to go ring shopping on February 12, 2013. When I got home from work his car was parked in the garage. It was a Tuesday so he should have been at school. When I went inside he cleaned the house, got wine and flowers, and put Tucker in his tuxedo. Mike said sweet things about us and our future and then asked to go ring shopping together. I never told him that I wanted to pick out my own ring or design one. But he knew that I was picky about what I liked. A woman wears this ring every single day, it should be perfect and something that she loves. I had a nightmare that Mike proposed with a ring pop size ring. It was expensive and I loved that he gave it to me...but it was awful and I hated it. Can you exchange an engagement ring? Mike's proposal to go ring shopping was perfect. I still got the surprise of a "proposal", and I got to pick out my ring. We meet with a ring designer and three months later it was ready. Three months was a long time to wait but in the end it was worth it.

Our reenactement of the proposal 

I also found out later that he asked my parents permission to marry me the prior June (8 months earlier). He asked during a race, because he knew that might be the only time he saw them without me around. Because I was ahead of him in the race. I'm not very traditional and never expected him to ask permission, but it was very sweet and I'm glad he did.

The Original Plan

When we got engaged we knew nothing about Switzerland. We had plans to have a big party in Austin before we left to get married in Zihuatanejo.  We had venue in Austin picked out, we were narrowing down our cupcake bakeries and I had a hand drawn photo booth artist lined up.  The "Save the Date's" were even mailed. But in late November when Switzerland came into the picture, we knew it wasn't practical to fly from Switzerland to Austin for the party and then to Mexico for the wedding. We didn't have the time or money to do everything. So we cancelled the Austin party but continued on with all of our Mexico plans.

The First Ceremony

We were always going to get married at the JP before our Mexico wedding. But instead of going to the JP the week before our May 15th wedding, we decided to go a little earlier. We decided that it would make the move to Switzerland easier if we were already married. I needed to get my last name changed before we moved.

We went to the JP on December 10th, 2013. My friend Amber and MOH joined us and took a video.

That's the back story, next up will be the Wedding week.