Will You Marry Me?

Quite possibly the best question that I have ever been asked!

On December 23, 2010, Jonathan planned a very special date for us.

The proposal story:

We were driving down to Wickes to spend Christmas with his family and we stopped in Hot Springs for "date night." He first pulled off at the Arlington Hotel and we went inside and looked at the very large gingerbread house that they make every year.

He got a very strange phone call and said we had to go outside. Awaiting us outside was this beautiful horse drawn carriage. I have always wanted to ride in a horse drawn carriage and he set it up special just for me.

It was very romantic. The weather was chilly and we rode around downtown Hot Springs under a blanket in this cute carriage.

We ate at Outback Steakhouse and he rushed me through dinner. He said that we had somewhere that we had to be. That place was Garvin Gardens. He researched and found out that they have the 2nd best rated Christmas lights display in Arkansas. For those of you who don't know I LOVE looking at Christmas lights!

We walked around looking at all of the lights. The train was Jonathan's favorite.

Then we got to this super cute bridge and he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!!

That is our first photo as an engaged couple (hence the hand on check action)

And this is my new gorgeous bling! I absolutely love it! It's hard to tell in the picture but it is so shiny that I look at it all the time!

Since I have been at mom and dad's I have gotten a lot of planning done. Definitely more than most people do in their first week of being engaged, but mom is super excited and wants to get to do as much with me as she can. More pictures will come as planning continues.

Wedding checklist so far:

Fiance- check

Dress- check

Date- check -- JULY 30, 2011!