Pre Proposal 1

First post. I'm not much of a blogger, but I wanted to start getting my ideas down in something of an order. My idea are, obviously, about my dream wedding. Now, I'm fully aware that I'm not engaged yet, but that is just a technicality.

You see, a year ago, my boyfriend Joshua and I, went to a mall for some 'blow your money' shopping. We had both just received rather large paychecks and wanted to have some fun. So we stopped at Rogers and Hollands to goof around and give him some ideas about what I wanted; you know, in a ring. So I ended up sitting down with one of their very nice sales men and we went over what I dreamed about. It had to be an emerald cut, and no larger than 1 carrot. There needed to be a stone on each side and it had to be in white gold or a similar shade. Now this was pretty average for an engagement ring, but then I dropped the bomb on them.

The two other stones needed to be my birth stone. I'm a June baby, so they thought 'pearl or moonstone?' Wrong. I know what my real birth stone is, alexandrite. This is the stone that, even when it is created, costs 40% more than a diamond. The most expensive gemstone on the market. For those of you who don't know, the alexandrite is a dual color stone. In the sunlight it is an emerald green, while in candle or artificial light, it is a purple or red. This is completely beautiful to me, and fits me and my lifestyle perfectly.

Even with how expensive it was going to be, Joshua sat down right then and there and had them order my perfect ring. I have no idea what the prongs look like, no idea what the wedding band looks like, and no one gets to see the ring, besides him, until its on my hand. But I'm perfectly happy.

Gosh, this may be a long first blog. I hadn't intended to explain this much but now you understand why not being engaged is a technicality. I'm not willing to be engaged until the ring is on my finger, but I know we will be married within the next two, hopefully just the next, year.

Now, a year later I found out that the ring is paid off and he is paying for the alexandrite. It couldn't be put in the stone until he had paid for the ring, and now I found out he had a picture of it sent to his phone. He didn't let me see it and deleted it before I found out. Well, all of this gave me wedding fever. So I started planning my dream wedding and finally figured out my main colors. I'm designing my wedding after my birth stone...or at least most of it.