Home Sweet Home

Last week Tyler and I put a deposit on an apartment.  Woo hoo!  We got the last two bedroom in the complex, crazy.  We are going to live in the village, but in a different complex than I live right now.  I'm moving at the end of October and Tyler will move in after we get married.  I'm so excited to start decorating our new place.  And once Tyler moves in he'll get to make me breakfast in bed every morning!!  YES!

There's a First Time for Everything

This week was such a fun week for Tyler and I.  We started out the week designing our invitations.  I can't wait to see the final design next week.  Gabe, a friend of Tyler and I's, has custom designed the whole thing.  He has done such an amazing job so far and I can't wait to see the final product.  We feel so incredibly blessed to have him helping us with this.

We also went to our first cake tasting!  Wedding cake has always been one of my favorite things at weddings so I've been looking forward to this since we got engaged.  I really loved the ideas that they had for our cake.  I'm excited to try a few other places to see which one we will actually use.

I also met with our first florist this week.  Tyler knew her because he worked with her husband when he was at Apple.  I loved all her photos and her ideas.  I still have to meet with a few more florists but I really enjoyed meeting with her.

The most exciting thing that happened this week is...drum roll please...we got our first gift off our registry!!!!! When I got home from work and saw the box I was like a little kid at Christmas.  Luckily Tyler was with me so I could open it immediately and didn't have to wait.  Yay!

-Meghan

Magnets & more...

So by now most of you should have received our save the date magnet!  We ordered them through magnetstreet.com and are really happy with what they did.  I find it surreal to walk to my own refrigerator and see Tyler and I with our wedding date.  It's like, oh yeah I'm getting married.  Hahah...anyways.

We have also been working on getting our wedding website ready for everyone to see.  If you have not been able to check it out I've included a link below.  It has everything from how he proposed, where we're registered, and who is in our wedding party.  Hopefully it will give you all the information you need for our wedding day.  And if you have time you should leave us a little note on our guest book!

http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/MeghanHale&TylerGatewood

-Meghan

The honeymoon is booked!

It's official, we booked our honeymoon!  I'm thrilled to share that we will be going to, drum roll please....Ocho Rios, Jamaica!!!  

We have gone back and forth on this but finally decided Jamaica was the perfect place for us to spend our honeymoon.  Big thanks are in order to everyone who gave input on where we should go.  Thanks to your recommendations and guidance we were able to choose what place was the best fit for us.  We will stay six nights in paradise at the Sandals Resort in Ocho Rios. 

I am so excited that Jamaica will be the first vacation that Tyler and I take as husband and wife!  I seriously can't wait to sit under one of these umbrellas.  This picture will now be my computer background...really.  I'm serious.    

Until next time, love you guys!

- Meghan

149 Days...

Hey look at that, I have not updated my portion of our wedding blog in a long time. Silly me for nothing keeping my end of the bargain.

It's amazing for me to see how close the wedding is, only 149 days away. You may say that the wedding is still a long ways off, but in all reality it is not at all. When I first purposed in March and we decided the wedding would be in January, it seemed like that was forever away. I wanted to marry Meghan right then and there (note: I still do), and since I am ordained I began to wonder if I could officiate my own ceremony, Yeah, just think about how crazy that would be.

Minister (Me): "Tyler do you take Meghan..."
Me: Walking to hold Meghan's hand..."I do..."
Then back and forth several times....

Ok I know that kind of sounds weird and dumb and whatnot, but hey it would be exciting. I may become winded though. Yeah, Meghan make me delete this section. Anyways back to what I was saying...

It has been amazing so far through our engagement to see God bring us closer together through joys and difficulties. It is so great to see where God has brought us in over 2 1/2 years. We are beginning an amazing journey together and I look forward to 80 more years together. It amazing to see God love us so much individually and as a couple. He has blessed us immensely and one thing I am reminded of is that God's love does not change, His love remains. He has been there for us in the past, in the present, and will be in the future. He will never leave us and that is so comforting to know. He really does love us like He says He does in the Bible.

My prayer is that I continue to love my God first but secondly love Meghan as He has called me to do so. To daily sacrifice and give myself up. I need to always work on that. I pray that husbands love their wives, the same way Christ loves the church. I challenge you men to do this and work at it, be a student of her.

I know I need to always work on it, especially because like I said earlier, 149 days is closer than you think.

Give Grace, Live Truth, Reflect Jesus
Ty

Here we are, four months in...

It's hard to believe that Tyler and I have been engaged for four months.  The time has flown.  We're almost half way through our engagement...CRAZY!

We have gotten so many things done since our last post.  We got our save the dates in!  They should be arriving in everyone's mailboxes over the next few weeks.  Tyler and I have also started looking at apartments!  I know it's a little early, but we want to look everywhere we can and see what location works best for us.  My office moved downtown and Tyler works in Arlington so we're working on finding a great place in-between that we can call home.  We also have been interviewing DJ's.  I've learned that hiring a DJ is much harder than I anticipated.  They are in charge of the whole feel of the reception.  If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them!

We also have chosen our colors.  The colors are navy, champaign and a splash of pink.  I'm so excited that we are incorporating pink in the color palate.  I always thought I'd get married in the fall and had my heart set on pink, but when we chose a winter wedding I thought there was no chance we could have pink.  I love pink and navy together though so I'm super pumped!!

Only 160 days to go!

- Meghan

Engagement Entertainment

Check out this video of Tyler and I...we're REALLY excited about getting married.  It makes us want to break out into dance...

- Meghan