Anxiously engaged

I've been back from Spain for almost a month. um crazy! time flies!

So for all those who need some wedding details and maybe a few pictures this is probably a good place to see them :)

Anyways.. Jessica Davies is my cousin. and she is one AMAZING photographer. We took our engagements at the U (of course!) and we love them!

You can check out more of her work at http://jessicadaviesphotography.com/

We're getting married on October 8th and we're pretty excited! We are also having a reception somewhere in California on October 17th. It's during UEA which is perfect because if you live in Utah, lets be honest, you'll probably be there anyways.. 

Speaking of receptions. we are registered at Target and Bed Bath and Be 

Jesus and I have seen a ton of tender mercies and small miracles in wedding planning It's been such a cool experience. I remember when I started this blog I talked about how we were moving forward with faith and Yeah! Faith takes work for sure. I read an article that one of the Sister missionaries in Spain actually sent me recently that I absolutely love. Moving forward in young adult years can be scary and often times you just want to feel 100% sure with Heavenly Fathers approval on everything you do. But He trusts us enough sometimes to make our own decisions and then later we receive the witness we want after we prove our Faith.

If you need some guidance in your life with the big decisions that may lay ahead I encourage you to read this talk

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/anthony-d-perkins_nevertheless-went-forth/

Corie's version. 3:43 am

Let's startat JFK. My flight landed at 1:45 and my connecting flight to Salt Lake was supposed to take off at 7:40. 
I waited in JFK for a while, 7:40 rolls around and my flight isn't ready to leave yet. Minor mechanical problems. but we finally took off like an hour later. I was really excited to get home and see my family and Jesus and start this new chapter of our life.
Pause! side note. Jesus and I had talked about getting married for a while. One morning while right after I had hung up the phone with him before I had to go to school I decided to check my emails and I had an appointment reservation at the Salt Lake Temple on October 8th. I was like hmmmmm... Jesus... ha ha. I texted him and said Babe... It looks like you made a reservation for us.. He responded with "surprise!" He was hoping it would be a surprise to share with my a little later, but the temple is quick with reservation emails. :)
Anyways. So. My flight. After a few hours the pilot tells us there was a slight mechanical problem with the radar that the pilot had never experienced before. So we had to take "a quick stop" in Minnesota. So. an hour later we finally were ready to take off again.
I thought It would be easy to sleep, but I was so excited to get home. I couldn't sleep. our plane didn't have TV's for each seat so I couldn't see where we were or what time it was. It took FOREVER!! 
So I was wearing nothing super cute, I had jeans in my carry on and all day I thought about how I should put them on, but when i finally got off the plane, I was like nah.. I'll just go out like this. 
I got down to my family and it was just my parents. It was great to see them, but I wondered where Jesus was, he wasn't there. My mom said she had no idea where he was, and I thought that was a little odd because I thought they were together earlier in the day. So I called him and he was almost there, but I just told him to meet me at home. 
So when I got home there was chalk all down the sidewalk that said welcome home, love you, cute things. 
and honestly I was wide awake. 3 am Utah time is 11am Spain time, so i was wide awake and told Jesus to take me on a walk. he agreed, but instead of going on a walk we got in the car and he drove me to the Union at The U. I figured something good was going to happen. So we got out of the car and started walking down the stairs. There was a lot of chalk and a letter I was supposed to read. 
We walked down to the block U where there was another letter I read it and then he blindfolded me and we walked towards the waterfall (which happens to be one of our favorite places). I could tell someone was taking pictures. I could see a flash. 
He took off my blindfold and we were inside this heart that was lit up with lights and sparklers, he gave me one last card that at the end said marry me! He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him and Of course I said Yes! 
He then signaled a bunch of people to come down from behind the fountain to congratulate us. I was soooo surprised to see some brighton friends and ward friends, school friends and lots of Jesus' friends and my heart melted a lot knowing that they had probably been there since 11 or 12 when my plane was supposed to land and it was 3:45 in the morning. They are the best friends anyone could ever ask for! 
I am so excited to marry Jesus! He is my best friend and I can't wait to start a new life with him :) 

July 2, 2015 3:43am

Hey, everyone  this is Jesus! 

Well. um.. lets see. I've been planning this engagement for a while. First you need to know a couple of things. 

1. I decided that it needed to be in a place that had meaning to both of us.

2. It needed to be a memorable proposal.

3. It needed to be a surprise.

So about the time that Corie left for Spain in mid May, I began to think of places that were both memorable for both of us. I thought about the Rice Eccles stadium field, but it didn't work out, So I decided that I would involve some of our closest friends and plan out something memorable at the U waterfall at the U right behind the Marriot Library. 

I got 10 of some of her close friends and some ward friends to help me set up, of course I had them there at the original time and then when I told everyone that she was going to be about 3 hours late and that we could do it another day,our friends were so supportive that they wanted to wait it out, some slept in the grass, some prepared, some took pictures, and some chalked the sidewalk by the union.  

The original plan was to have proposed at around midnight- Corie's flight was supposed to land around 11:40pm on July 1st. 

But upon further notice, (what Corie and I like to call Plan B, or, not the original plan, which usually seems to happen.) Corie's flight was delayed 3 hours due to mechanical problems. 1 and a half hours at JFK and 1 hour in Minnesota. Instead of landing at 11:40, her flight finally landed at 2:30am. I was almost halfway to the airport when she called me wondering where I was, and told me she would just meet me at her house. 

So when she got home I was really excited to see her and to my surprise she was wide awake because of the 8 hour time difference of Spain. It was very beneficial to me. 

So I took her to the Union Building at the U of U, we went on a little scavengar hunt, she found a card she had to read that told her how much I loved her, Then arrows pointed the way to the next clue which was at the block U. I blindfolded her so she couldn't see the rest of the way to the fountain. 

When we arrived to the fountain our friends lit up sparklers in a heart shape and I took off the blindfold. we walked together to the center of the heart where she found her last letter, and then I asked her to marry me. :) She said Yes "...at 3:43 am, July 2nd, under the full moon" - Kirsten Morrise. and then all of our friends surrounded us with sparklers and flowers and gave both of us lots of hugs and congratulations.

 

We are so grateful for our friends that stayed out till 4 am to help plan this special day for Corie and I. They are the BEST!

We can't wait for October 8th!