I created a Wedding website! If you want to check it out the address is: www.theknot.com/ourwedding/JessieCaldwell&BradGriffitts
At the moment it is missing lots of details, but it has basic information about me and Brad and the wedding date.
Well, after reading my last blog I realized that I skipped straight from finals to getting engaged! I guess I should recap on all the things that have happened besides meeting an amazing, brilliant, sweet, and extremely wonderful person to marry :D But first I am going to talk about Brad and the wedding plans just for an update...
The wedding is going to be August 9th and we are getting married in the Salt Lake City Temple. We are having a nice dinner after the wedding for close family and friends at the Joseph Smith Building. Brad needs to finish up his summer classes and finals so we will just be in Provo for a few days until he is done and then we will go to Georgia for a reception on the 16th. We are having it at a friend's neighborhood clubhouse that is really cute and that is nestled back in some woods. We are going to make it really pretty with tables and lights on the back deck area. Then me and Brad will be off on our honeymoon in Charleston, North Carolina! We are staying in a condo on an island off the coast. It is so beautiful and we are looking forward to having some delicious seafood and enjoying the beautiful beaches. At the end of our week-long honeymoon we will fly back to Coeur d'alene, Idaho for a small reception there with his family and friends.This past weekend me and Brad, and my sister and brother-in-law went to St. George to go to my cousin's reception and to see our friends Mike and Danielle DeMottte. I also got to try on my wedding dress and it was beautiful. My aunt is going to alter it for me because it was a little too big. She designs wedding gowns and formal dresses and is an amazing seamstress so I know she will do a good job.
So anyways.....
After finals me and my roommates, Becca and Jess, went on a road trip to Wisconsin. The drive is about 24 hours and we had a great time the entire ride there with great music, great food, and great stops along the way! We stayed overnight at a hotel...which was kind of creepy and ghetto much to our surprise. We thought it was a nicer hotel that Becca's mom had mentioned, but turns out it was a different one. But it was tons of fun and we got a good night's rest. We stopped at Little America along the way and got 50 cent ice cream cones which was fun and we got to see lots of open country in Nebraska, Wyoming, Iowa, and Minnesota. Once in Wisconsin we went to an awesome Cheese factory and we went to the Mall of America. The mall is SOO huge and is basically a one-stop for anything you could possibly need...it would take multiple days to visit the stores in the entire mall. We ate at the Rainforest Cafe while we were there and we got to sit under singing monkeys which was quite an experience.
After visiting with Becca's family in Wisconsin for a few days we flew to Georgia to visit my mom and siblings. Jess got to experience a true southern town and she is even now sporting redneck gear via a confederate pride t-shirt. We visited all sorts of places...gone with the wind museum, stone mountain, downtown Kennesaw, and a civil war locomotive museum...it was tons of fun! Amy, my sister, was also in a musical called Lil' Abner and we went to see her perform while we were home. She did a really good job and the musical was really funny. I got to see my old choir teacher Mrs. Gunter, who was one of the directors for the musical. It was perfect weather while we were there and one day we went to the lake where we got extremely burnt...i guess we should have put on more sunscreen, but I have a nice tan now :D
Sunday, the day after I got home from Georgia, Brad proposed to me. It caught completely by surprise! He can be very mischevious...haha...But anyways, we went to church and he told me that the day before he had bought everything for a picnic. I thought that was so sweet :D So, we went on a picnic after church under one of the gazebos up on the pretty pathways by the duck pond on campus. We had some delicious turkey sandwiches, potato salad, chips, and some interesting banana pudding for dessert..haha...it was so beautiful outside and it was all very tasty. Then, we went and laid down on the grass and Brad got a text from our good friend Tiffany who wanted to know if we wanted to come over to eat some cupcakes they just made. Brad had mentioned many times how full he was so I was surprised at how much he wanted to go over and eat the cupcakes, but he is a guy and I knew he could eat more...haha...but I told him we should wait a half hour since we just laid down and we were both full. But then Tiffany said that they were leaving to go to the fireside so Brad said we should go visit Tiffany and get some cupcakes before they left. So, we went over to Tiffany's apartment and Brad knocked and then let us in and that is when I noticed the rose petals on the ground and I was like, "What? Are they throwing a party or something?" But then I noticed the candles, teddy bear, Christmas lights, and fire (a recording of a real fire playing on the TV) and I couldn't believe it! I just stood there dumbstruck and in shock realizing what was about to occur. Brad came over to where I was standing in front of the table with the candles, with my mouth still hanging open, and he told me to look at the bear. I was thinking that maybe the ring was on the bear since he was telling me to look at it so I picked it up and was looking around at it, but found nothing on it. It is a really cute bear he built at Build-a-Bear and it is in a tux with red roses in it's hand. And then Brad told me to look at the birth certificate that came with the bear so I set down the bear (on top of a candle...yeah I was really out of it) and then I picked up the certificate and saw that the bear's name was Will U. Marime. I looked over at Brad who told me that he loved me and that he wanted to be with me forever and make me happy forever and to see my smiling face everyday. Then he got down on one knee, pulled out the ring, and asked me to marry him. I quickly grabbed the ring, without really looking at it, and jumped on Brad to give him a big hug and say yes. Then we both looked at the ring, which is extremely beautiful :D It was so sweet and perfect...I love him so much and I cannot wait to get married in August.
