My first post

Hi everyone! I decided a little late to start this, but hopefully it will chronicle my wedding planning journey for the next few months!

So, about us, Tony and I met on MySpace back in March of 2006, after a few messages back and forth I decided to give him my AIM screen name, we chatted on AIM for a couple weeks, and the night I was packing to go home for my grandfather's funeral he asked me in an IM if I wanted to go out with him on a date sometime. I gladly accepted but told him it would have to be after I got back, we planned it for a Saturday lunch the weekend I would come back and I gave him my phone number. He called and we talked on the phone every day for about a week before our Saturday lunch date arrived. He came to my apartment and picked me up, we went downtown to have lunch at a Cuban restaurant and all in all had a nice time. I didn't know if there was a future there or not, especially knowing that I would be moving to Orlando in a few short months for grad school and him active duty in the Navy, but we continued on.

Fast forward to July 2008, after dating for over 2 years, surving long distance, a deployment, PCS, and me moving again, we went to visit my family for the 4th of July weekend. Sunday July 6th we decided to go down to Miami Beach and enjoy some of the wonderful Florida summer weather. We were walking along the beach when all of a sudden Tony drops to his knee, pulls out the ring I had been pining over for months, and asked me to marry him! I of course said yes! And so began our wedding planning journey. We set the date for July 4, 2009 soon after, it was important to us as it was the only holiday we had always spent together in our years of dating, and it was my grandparents' anniversary. We then decided to do it in Burlington, Vermont, where Tony is from. So this Florida girl is trading in the beach and opting for the mountains of VT to set the scene of our Independence Day wedding. Hence Florida meets Vermont.