HOW WE MET
Well Jamie and I met at a little place called Arrowhead Regional Medical Center. You see, Jamie and I are both nurses and while she already worked in th I.C.U., I had just started in that department so that I could get further training. Jamie and I first started as friends, talking occasioniall and in passing. One day Jamie and I started talking ( in a patients room) and never really stopped. We would talk about the way we were brought up, our families and the foods that our mothers cooked for us. In fact, shortly after,Jamie had brought in some homemade mexican food,it smelled so good that I just had to try it; I then found myself looking for dinner in her lunch pale instead of the cafeteria. Well, long story short, we hit it off and started dating and after a small set back I realized that I had found the girl of my dreams and the rest as they say is history...
THE PROPOSAL
The proposal came about a year and a half after we started dating. I sat down with Mr.and Mrs.Delgado, relayed my intentions, and asked for their daughters hand in marrige. Her parents both said YES. Now came the hard part, I needed to plan a proposal that would not be picked up by Jamies natural curiosity. So here's what I came up with. I decided to do it on Valentines Day and stick to a pretty traditional " V- day" date; dinner with some friends and maybe a box of chocolates. Reservations were made at local french restaurant with about eight of our friends and family. Dinner would consist of seven courses and wines of our choice. The tricky part was coordinating the plans at her parents house while we were at dinner and she was sitting right next to me so needless to say there were countless trips to the mens room for sneaky phone calls. After dinner, we left to her parents house were my parents and her parents were conviniently sitting around having desert and coffee. The tension was high during the drive home, so high that my hands were sweating so bad; we even got home in record time, I think I was speeding the hole time. ( because I was nervous of course). We all walked into the house and oddly enough Jamie asked "what are your parents doing here?" I said "I don't know". Everyone sat around and started making small talk.I nervously poured a cup of coffee almost as if to just fit in and decided that i couldn't wait anymore so I broke out the box....no, not the ring box, the box of chocolates.( You see, earlier that day I had bought a two pound box of chocolates, took out the center chocolate and replaced with a diamond ring). I presented the box of chocolates while she sat next to her family and told her " Babe, I almost forgot,but I got you a box of chocolates...Oh yeah, I ate the middle chocolate, but I replaced it with someting else".She gave me this weird look and opened the box.Yeah, she started crying along with everyone in the room and before she even turned to look at me I took a knee and asked her to marry me.( don't ask what I said to her because to this day I cannont remember,told you I was nervous). SHE SAID YES. I felt like the luckiest guy in the world.
THE WEDDING
The wedding will be held at Castawat Restaurant on Sept,27th 2008 at 5:30 p.m. The address is included in the invitations you will be recieving in a couple of weeks.We did not in clude directions only because of the ease of having Mapquest.com now a days.Please try to be at least a half hour early so that the ceremony can begin on time. We hope that everyone can attend and help us to celebrate the day of our union.
THE RECEPTION
The reception will immediately follow the ceremony there at the restaurant with music and houres d'ourves for about an hour. The grand enterance will follow along with all of the traditional dances,dinner and dessert. Our D.j.promises to make this an awesome event so we hope you all bring your dancing shoes.
TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS
Our local guest shouldn't have any troubles locating the restaurant but if you do, you can use MapQuest.com to personalize your route from your specific location to the restaurant. Our out of town guests can also do the same for directions. As for lodging, we will have a list of local hotels you can stay at with a blocked out rooms so that it might be less expensive.Check our blog for a list of the hotels. If the hotel isn't your style then try to contact local family and make arrangments. We think that with all the family we have locally, everyone should have a place to stay.
OUR MESSAGE TO YOU
We would simply like to thank each and everyone who has supported our relationship. Our hopes are that everyone,even those who are far away and especially those with special circumstances,can attended. We feel blessed to have been brought together and will continue to strive to be our best for eachother. We'd also like to thank our parents for proving an amazing example of what a marriage should be, we hope to draw from this example in our daily lives. Thank you to our bridal party for being a part of our special day.A special thanks to Gabriel Ryan Photography for capturing those moments that will last a lifetime, and to Petals by Xavi for putting an amazing touch on something already beautiful. For those who helped financially with our wedding, WE THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS, WE COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU! We pray that the lord will be everpresent in our daily encounters with eachother and that he bless our marriage.
