R2D(2) - Day 1

I have a wedding to plan.  Like most people, I don't know where to start.  Unlike most women, I haven't had a vision of my perfect wedding since age 9.  The only thing I ever really knew about my wedding was that the details were going to be dependent on the guy I was marrying.  That was all fine and dandy until the right guy popped the question.  Now, I know I can start by looking at designs for engagement rings, but the choices of style, setting, gems, are all overwhelming!

Before I get into that rant, let me start from the beginning.  This is me.  I am a geek.:

 












This is my boyfriend of 5 years, Douglas, who is also a geek:

And this, was my proposal:

Background: Douglas is getting ready to defend his Master's Thesis.  He typically has me proofread sections. 
Yesterday was our 5 year anniversary.  Since everything was up in the air with when Douglas would be headed to DC to defend, we didn't make any solid plans for the day.  We decided that the easiest thing to do was to recreate our first date (which was after we were already dating).  I will share that story in another post.

Story: We dressed up and went to dinner at a decent Chinese restaurant in Charlotte called Shun Lee.  After eating out, we came home to enjoy a small Carvel ice cream cake and a movie.  After deciding to get comfortable, we headed upstairs.  Douglas asked me to sit in his desk chair and pulled out a sheet of paper.  My instructions: read the sheet out loud.  I started reading the acknowledgments page of his thesis - part of which I had helped him edit a few days earlier.  I get to the section dedicated to me, a sweet bit about how far we've come and what the future holds.  As I finished reading, he pulled out an open box with a Violet Lantern Ring in it and asked me to marry him.  I, of course, said yes - and so we were engaged.

Now that we have been introduced and you have a little bit of back story, I want to invite you to stay tuned.  The intent of this blog is to share my anxiety and adventures as I go from engaged to married, or as I'm calling it, the Rattazzi to Davidson transition (R2D(2)).