My first entry!!

Hello everyone! How exciting it is to join the blogging world. I figured this would be a great thing to look back on once our wedding has come and surely much more after. Since this is supposed to be a blog about Brian & I, I suppose I should give the basics as this point. I'd love to insert pictures, but I'm so completely new to this and I'd hate to look like a fool. So someone please tell me how to do so! Ha ha. Without further adu, I tell you the story of Brian and Candice...

Brian and I have been together for almost seven years. We're an amazing couple. Best friends. We've been through more than many people our age, but we're fortunate enough to have been through it together. We met in 2002, when we worked together at Lone Star Steakhouse. He was a cook, and I was a server. It wasn't necessarily love at first sight, but I knew I really liked him when he offered to take me to my senior prom. (remind me to add pictures from that!) Officially dating only about a week, he was my first boyfriend to come with me to prom. As time went on, we became closer than we ever thought possible. We attended each other's high school graduation, we support each other on a constant basis, and we love each other so very much. Christmas day 2006, Brian gave me a single envelope. I was highly confused, as I thought this thin envelope couldn't possibly hold this gift he was so ecstatic about! I opened it and first saw a passport application. Confusion grew high as I looked at the next paper. It was a letter written in Italian. WHAT?? I knew something was going on as his grandparents were videotaping the entire thing. I looked at Brian with wrinkled eyebrows and his mom yelled "you're going to Italy!" Wow! What a gift!! We ventured to Italy in May of 2007. This was by far, the best time of my life. It was the night of June 1, 2007 that Brian asked me to be his wife.
We got to Venice on Friday June 1st and it was POURING and I was a little upset because I wanted to go on a Gondola ride so bad. That's what I had been looking forward to forever. So when it got dark out the rain let up and we had some trouble finding a Gondola because the waters were so high. Needless to say, we found one and I was so happy. The gondolier took us on this canal that he claimed was the "most romantic in Venice" and apparently his uncle already told the guy he was going to propose, so he knew what was going on. We get back into this quiet canal.. so quiet Brian had to whisper when he was asking me. He put his arm around me and whispered "Babe, you know I love you right?" and I said "Yes, I love you too" and he said "Good, I have to take this off now" and he began to take off my promise ring. I thought it was a joke at first and I was not happy. Ha ha. Then I asked why and he said "So I can put this on" and he put on my ring. I felt his hand shaking and then I noticed his heart pounding in his sweatshirt. I looked at him and asked him "Really?" about eight times and he said "Will you marry me baby?" and I of course said yes and cried even more. I was so freaking happy. He was too. When we got on land he picked me up, spun me around said "Its us babe! I'm so happy! Its us forever!" He never stopped smiling. Ah, it was the greatest night in my entire life. Our heads were in the clouds after that, we went out to dinner and couldn't stop smiling at each other. Now, in October of 2008, Brian is working two jobs and saving money, as I study harder than ever before, in the quest of the wedding we are so yearning for.

As of now, nothing much is planned. We know the colors we'd like, we know the date, we have an idea about the bridal party & we know we are meant for each other and that's probably the most important thing, right?

I must stop rambling now. Truth is, I could talk about my relationship with Brian forever. Sure, there are always some bumps along the road, but it makes us so much stronger. The bond we have is completely amazing and I simply cant imagine how it will be when we're man and wife.