Marriage talk

So once Perm was home our relationship started to take off. We sat at my parents house on a Sunday night and started talking about our future. It threw me for a loop! I was so surprised that only after two weeks we would be talking about marriage.. I didn't expect it, nor did he! We talked about when our wedding date would be and if we would wait till the summer or get married during the winter. Both of us felt if we knew it was right and that it was supposed to happen then why post pone it even more?

I went home that night and quickly texted my cousin Gabrielle. I told her "well.. Perm and I just had our first official marriage talk." Then she responded quickly with, "Jordan and I have had it too..." I was shocked! Gabrielle and Jordan had been dating for about a year or so and I knew it was getting serious but I knew Gabrielle all too well and she wasn't one to hop on the marriage band waggon. So I thought she meant we've talked about it but not any details. I soon find out I'm very wrong! They were looking at getting married around the same time as well! Which blew my mind! Once we both realized what was happening we both laughed and thought of course, we are like sisters(3 months apart age wise and lived a street away most our lives) why woulndn't we get married around the same time? Heck, we will probably die around the same time too!

So that of course got my all excited. I loved the fact I was in the process of getting married but the fact that I would have my cousin by my side made it that much better :)

That Saturday I told Perm we should go look for rings, because I don't know what I really like. Plus, I didn't know what looked good on my finger. So he hesitantly said yes...little did he know what he was getting himself into! Hahaha! We decided to go to Jared, I had done some research and I really liked one of the rings I saw on their website. That day we learned about the four C's of a diamond. Cut, Color, Clarity and Carat. I knew I hated the three stone look, yes Perm and I have the past, present and future thing goin for us in our relationship but I didn't want that on a ring. So I had this idea of having a center stone with little diamonds all around it. I couldn't find anything like that! Finally, the sales lady asked me the vision I had in my head. Once I told her, her eyes lite up and she went and got a ring. She told me I was a very vintage girl(uhhh...me? Seriously? Little did I know the whole vintage look would play into more than just my ring!) She put this ring on my finger and placed the center stone so I could get the full affect of what it would look like. I instantly had a huge grin on my face! Oh my gosh! It was gorgeous! (As a side note; I've always told Perm he's not allowed to pick out my ring with out me, I'm the one wearing it so I want to make sure I'm absolutely in love with it.. Thankfully he was more than ok with that!)

Perm couldn't believe we had found a ring that I was so in love with. He kept asking me, "Are you sure? This is only the first store we've been to! We need to look around". So I told him that would be fine, but I won't find one that out weights this ring. Sure enough, we went and looked around and he was the one that turned up his nose to other rings.

This all was happening while my parents were on a Scandanavian Cruise and I was happy about that. I still felt it was too soon from him coming off his mission. But at the same time I was so torn because I knew what I wanted and why wait at that point?

So a few weeks go by, he started school which stressed him out and threw him for a curve ball all on it's on. He was so used to the mission rules and schedule so when he had to change it up and focus on school it took him awhile to get adjusted. I was anxious, I liked that ring and I wanted it on my finger!