History of our relationship

1. where did you meet your husband?
We met in highschool. I'd known his best friend since the 5th grade but never actually met Dave until I was in highschool in 10th grade. I first saw him at a dance, with his then-girlfriend. I remember feeling jealous that this girl had such a sweet boyfriend, and right off I thought Dave was cute. He doesn't remember meeting me until the next year, when I was in 11th grade and he was in 12th. We ended up sitting right next to each other at the front of the class in Seminary. I liked him right away. I thought he was very attractive and we started talking. I really liked him, and I was pretty sure he liked me, too.

2. what was the first thing said?
I don't know the very first thing, but one of the first things we talked about in Seminary was that dance where I first saw him. I hadn't had the greatest time that night, and he had seen the dance pictures (from his friend, who I went to the dance with) and remembered me from them. He told me he thought I had looked sad in the pictures, and I explained why.

3. what was your first date?
Well, after a LOT of "We should hang out some time" crap, we planned a date and pretty much stood each other up. Yeah. I waited until the last minute to call him and at that point he had already left to go to his friend's house because he thought I wasn't going to call. So it turned out quite badly, and we stopped talking. Months later we saw each other at the grocery store randomly and talked. After that we emailed each other often. BUT...our first REAL date was going to a movie. We picked a different movie at the last moment than the one we had planned on, and knew nothing about the movie. It turned out to be so stupid, we left. He drove us around town and we talked. It turned out that we knew a lot of the same people and had interest in many of the same topics, so we had a lot to talk about. We wanted to get ice cream at Cold Stone, but there was such a huge line that we stopped at McDonald's instead and each got a Fruit and Yogurt Parfait. When he dropped me home, he shook my hand on the doorstep. (?!WTF?!)

4. how long did you date?
We dated for about 3 months before he left on his mission. We started to really care for each other after a month or so of hanging out, but I was not willing to become a "couple" at first because he was about to leave. But we decided to after all just before he left...it still sucked to let him go, either way. :( After he got home, we dated more and were engaged in a month.

5. first kiss?
We were in his backyard, by the side of the house. It was very sweet, even though I was nervous about it. It was just a simple kiss. When I first saw him moving his lips to mine, I laughed. Then we tried again, and it was nice :)

6. where did you get engaged?
We had been spending the evening with some friends and it was late at night. We went to the main street near a park of the city where we had grown up. It was very quiet and empty. When we reached the end of the sidewalk and were alone, he turned to me and asked me to marry him. I said, "Right now?" and he laughed. He asked again, and I said yes. :)


7. where did you get married?
We were married in the timp temple on Dec. 28th.

8. how did the reception go?
Eh. We had both been sick, and were kind of out of it still (we had our reception AFTER the honeymoon, where we had contracted the flu). The decorations were taken care of by some nice ladies from the ward and looked very nice. Some close friends of mine made our beautiful and delicious cake. The food situation was taken care of by my mother and some of her friends. I didn't have to worry about a thing. And yet, it had its share of flaws. The dress slip we had rented for the wedding was forgotten in the bustle of things, so I had to wear my dress without it and, in my opinion, I looked frumpy. I had to stand 90% of the time and was hungry, weak, tired and sick. The music I wanted played at the reception didn't get there, but luckily we arranged to have a girl play the piano for us and she was great. I don't know. I look back at my whole wedding now and wish I could have done just about everything differently. I was too caught up in other things at the time to really plan what I wanted. I was too concerned with spending as little money as possible, not with planning my dream wedding. Still, it worked out alright.

9. where did you go on your honeymoon?
Disneyland! This was my dream honeymoon destination. I was so thrilled that we got to go! We stayed for about a week. Unfortunately, we spent at least half of the time with one or the other of us being sick with the flu. Yeah. Not so romantic. We spent much of our time sleeping and feeling gross in the hotel room. We enjoyed DIsneyland and California adventure for the first few days, though...but unfortunately we missed the New Year's celebration with fireworks. Instead we watched a crappy sci-fi movie from the 50's as we lay miserable on the bed in the hotel.

10. do you have a song?
Yes, we do, but I won't divulge it because I might be judged :)