We're getting married on August 6, 2011 in the Dallas, Texas Temple.  We are very excited!  Our reception will be that night from 7-9, and we will have an open house on August 20 in Utah.  We're still working on invitations, but we'll keep you posted!

So, questions have come up about this honeymoon registry thing. Is it in lieu of a wedding gift, or for some reason do we want both?

Basically, we are excited to let you all know about our upcoming wedding and hope that we can share some of that joy with you! We also thought the honeymoon registry site and the ability to make a personalized webpage with it was really cool!

We aren't like many people in this country who feel entitled to receive gifts and money from others. However, we will be very grateful for whatever gifts we do receive. Additionally, we realize that money is short nowadays for many people, so we don't expect anyone to do both a wedding gift and the the honeymoon registry thing, or either one of them for that matter. But, we won't be opposed either if any of you decide to give us a gift in whatever form that you prefer! 

If nothing else, we hope that that you can at least enjoy from the honeymoon registry webpage the pictures and our brief stories of how we met and progressed to being engaged.

"Where are you going?" I asked a pretty young lady who was walking next to me.

"Oh, just to my car," she responded with a bright smile on her face.

Thus went the of the first conversation between Sara and me. She looked familiar from the training I had just finished for the day at my new job as a BYU freshman mentor, but I knew nothing about her. I do remember thinking, however, that she always seemed to have a smile on her face whenever I had seen her.

I quickly found out that Sara was from Texas, which was something that I could not let slide by without at least some playful teasing. Being that I am from Oklahoma, I quickly made some witty comment like "though eveything may be bigger in Texas, everything is better in Oklahoma!" I even promised to wear the shirt pictured below to the next day's training. And I did!

With that, we parted ways: me to my car, and her to keep on walking to her car that was parked FAR away, refusing an offer for a ride there.

My initial impressions were that she was quite fun, very pretty, and she either really liked to walk, or had some aversion for parking anywhere close to campus.

We went on our first date about one month later. We officially started dating about a month after that. Six months later, to the day, I proposed and she said "Yes!"

I will save the juicy details of the proposal for Sara to write about. But let me just say that she was quite surprised, and so was I that she said "yes." When I decided to ask Sara to marry me I only had a wooden ring to propose with, but I wrapped it in aluminium foil to make it shine! Despite that ring, and my playful banter about Texas, she agreed to marry me, and I am so glad that she did! That happened on a Sunday, by that Friday I had a real ring, and I proposed again. This time I did it at the end of my sister's and cousin's graduation to surpise Sara and so that people could get pictures, like the one at the top of this page!

I feel incredibly lucky and blessed to be engaged to Sara. She makes me want to be a better person. I am excited for our wedding on August 6th in the LDS Dallas temple and I look forward to being married to Sara for time and for all eternity! Who knows, I may even grow to like Texas.

I wish I could say that the day I met David I was the perky, put-together girl he knows me as, but the truth is to this day I’ve never been more disoriented…

It was the first day of training for my new job, and lucky for me I was still jetlagged from my return from my summer internship in France. The exhaustion created a haze in my mind to where I couldn’t remember how to speak English or my basic social skills—especially concerning boys. The day wasn’t a gentle way to break back into the Provo scene—with 8 long hours of training, meetings and meeting new people.

The close of this day brings me to my first exchange with David, on the long walk to my parked car. I saw David and another girl I recognized from work walking in front of me, and in an attempt to redeem myself from however disoriented I may have seemed during training, I walked right up to them and introduced myself. David said that he was from Oklahoma, and I made sure to let him know that I was from Texas. This started an endless teasing from David which I now believe was just an excuse to talk to me.  I don't remember anything else we talked about, but in my journal I wrote, "I'm sure our conversation was super awkward because I'm not used to talking to boys in English." 

A month following our awkward introduction, and lots of time spent “studying” at the library we went on our first date. Surprisingly, I wasn't nervous at all like I usually was for first dates. He proved during the date to be a perfect gentleman. I was impressed by his humor, his love for his family, his love for learning, and his love for the gospel.  Through the months that followed my admiration for David continued to grow, until one day, exactly six months after we officially started dating to be precise, we went for a walk at a park in the canyon.  David started telling all the reasons why he loves and needs me, and then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!  I had no idea that was what he was doing until he actually vocalized the question—I was completely surprised! 

I am so blessed to be marrying David.  He always keeps me laughing, and I learn so much from him every day.  He is a great example to me, and I am so excited that I get to marry and be sealed to my best friend!