Scott and I would like to thank you all for sharing in our joy and visiting our wedding registry.  For those of you who are coming from our of town, we want to thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to celebrate with us. We can't wait to see you all!! 

We met in 1972, 40 years ago this very year. It was the first day of 3rd grade and we were both 7 years old. If I had been a cartoon character, my eyes would have bugged out of my head the minute I saw Scott......I was smitten!  As luck would have it, Scott must have seen something in me, as well, because it didn't take him too long to ask me to go ride bikes.  I was SO excited, I couldn't believe it!! I remember that day very well!  For the next couple of years, Scott and I would go climb trees, walk through the woods, ride bikes and just "hang out"...it was our first long-term relationship LOL. I was totally and utterly infatuated with Scott.  I kept a diary back then and Scott was apparently a little smitten with me as well, because in my diary I wrote on Jan 10, 1973...  "Scott said he loved me, I love Scott because he's nice to me and cute". 

One day in March of 1974, I was over at Scott's house and we were sitting on the edge of his bed (door open of course.......we were 9 years old) and Scott gave me a polished rock out of his rock collection, he had just gotten a rock tumbler for Christmas and he asked me if I would like one.  I knew exactly which rock I was going to pick because it was flat and small and would fit perfectly in my little diary......which is where I taped it. (we'll get back to the diary and "the rock" in a bit).  That same night Scott's mother asked Scott if he "wanted his little friend to stay for dinner"......well, we might as well have sent the wedding invitations out right then and there as far as I was concerned.  Scott had just given me this precious stone AND I was having dinner with his family!!!

Then my family moved to CA in July of 1974.  Since I was over 2,000 miles away, I figured it was safe to profess my undying love in a letter......yes I did!!  On pink paper and spritzed it with perfume!....ahhhh girls!!  We had kept in touch, wrote letters and talked on the phone occasionally. I sent Scott a Christmas present one year, Scott wrote as well and would send Christmas cards and the occasional school picture was exchanged. You have to remember, this was before internet and e-mails so it took a little effort for kids to keep in touch. About 5 years after that, I came back to New Jersey for a visit (we were 14 or 15 then) and we saw each other at the local McDonalds. Scott was with his friends and I was with mine, both feeling a little awkward. We had a brief exchange but that was it, I was disappointed we didn't have much of a chance to catch up. It wasn't long after that we lost track of each other.

In 2003, I relocated back to New Jersey. Scott moved back to Pennsylvania in 2006. In August of 2010, Scott saw my name on www.classmates.com and e-mailed me..... after so many years!!  I couldn't believe it....Scott McMoran!!...my little love!?!?  I was SO excited to hear from him, I think I let out a little "yelp". Scott started out by saying........"What's this I see you never married?" and for about a month and a half we were writing long e-mails daily, texting daily and talking when we could.  He was busy with 2 jobs, working day shift and I had 2 night shift jobs so we were having a hard time getting together.  We finally got to meet up on Sept 29, 2010, we hit it off right away and....as crazy as it sounds... the very next day told each other "I love you" which is also the same day that I found my childhood diary.....finally!!  I had been looking for that diary since he had gotten in touch......  "the rock" was still taped in the diary!!

Our first Christmas together in 2010, Scott had "the rock" made into a necklace that I haven't taken off since......ask me to see "the rock", I'll be wearing it today as well.  The following Christmas, Scott gave me a different kind of rock and asked for my hand in marriage......after asking for permission from Sarah and my father.  Both of the rocks are just as priceless to me, but not as priceless as the love I've found in Scott.

We believe that we were always meant to be together, and that if I hadn't moved in 1974, this chapter in our lives would have started a lot sooner. Although with all the broken roads it took to get us here, it makes this union that much sweeter. As fate would have it, we feel so blessed to have found each other after so long and will spend every day cherishing each other.   

Scott and I pretty much knew from the start that we would spend the rest of our lives together.  The big question was whether we would keep the status quo or take the big leap.  Well, on Christmas morning 2011, it was decided!  Scott bought me a large tool box for a Christmas present.....for some reason, all my tools in the house end up in the garage LOL.  It was a perfect present! This way I could keep a set of tools in the house and not have to use a butter knife everytime I want to tighten a screw.  Anyway, inside the toolbox was a jewelry box.  As soon as I saw the jewelry box, Scott got on his knee and proposed. I found out later that he had already asked "for my hand in marriage" and got permission from Sarah and my father.....he is such a gentleman :). Sarh had the ring hidden in her room and kept it a secret....she's very good at that. Scott didn't hear me say "yes" right away and asked me "well are you going to answer?". Of course, I said "yes" and "yes" again.  Within the next couple of weeks....we chose a date!

Scott and I both decided that Fall would be a nice time to be married.  We both get very hot in the summer and the fall is so very pretty on the east coast.  We decided to marry this year, as the thought of waiting and planning a wedding for almost two years just seemed excessive and we just wanted to get this chapter of our lives started. I said we could go to City Hall, it didn't really matter, it was the comittment that mattered.  Scott wanted a ceremony as I had never been married before and he wanted me to experience a real wedding. So....it started out rather small, and now we are having a string quartet for the ceremony, a pianist during cocktail hour, butlered hour d'ourves etc. It is still rather small in the wedding world...about 75-100 guests, but definitely not as small as we had thought in the beginning.

With so much going on in our lives right now, and the expense of a wedding, we haven't really even thought too much about where we want to go on our honeymoon.  Scott has a big project that will be instituted towards the end of September so we thought we would take our honeymoon possibly in the spring of next year.  As we both have all the household item we could possibly ever use.....this honeymoon registry site seemed perfect for us.  Scott will be getting his passport soon, and I'm hoping we can either go to Europe for our honeymoon or who knows where. I would love to go to England or Australia and introduce Scott to our relatives there, or maybe Italy....Venice is my favorite and SO romantic.  I had found this registry by asking Royal Carribean if they had any type of registry and they directed me to this site.  So, since we don't really know where and when we will go on our honeymoon this seemed the perfect solution.