We finally did it! We actually got around to picking out a ring for me! It's so gorgeous and I can't wait to get to wear it. But we're kind of doing things a little bit backwards and I'll get the wedding band before I get the engagement ring but I honestly don't care. I really just want to be married to my best friend already! At least we're actually finally on our way to getting married.

We spent way too much time doing nothing and just talking about it every once in a while and now that it's snuck up on us we are going to have to hurry to get everything done before he deploys. I feel better now that we've actually done something though. DBF is kind of a procrastinator and I never want to seem like a nag, especially about him spending thousands of dollars on a ring for me. It just seems selfish. And so here we are with only a few months left to get everything done.

I think I'm more worried about planning a wedding by myself. He'll be gone and possibly out of contact for a while so I may not even get to ask his opinion on too much of anything. I've never planned a wedding before, or even been part of planning a wedding. It makes me nervous. I really hate not knowing what I'm doing.

I'm one of those people that's naturally good at things and doing something where I have no clue what to do just makes me nervous. And of course, once I'm nervous about it, I tend to get frustrated with it easily. But this is one of those things that I can't really quit doing because I get mad. We really want to have a wedding so that all of our families can be there to see us get married.

My grandmother might not see another wedding for any of her other grandchildren. Not because she's old and dying or something but because one of my cousins is already married and she just went to the courthouse. My younger sister really isn't the type to do the whole big wedding either. And my younger cousin is a guy so he probably won't have a choice someday, but he's still in high school. So I'm kind of the only hope of having a big wedding with the dress and the cake and all that.

DBF seems to be the favorite in his family so of course, every single one of them wants to see him get married. I thing they'll all be sort of disappointed when we actually sign our marriage lisence before he leaves and they don't all get to be there.

I'm not even sure who will be there when we sign the papers. I'm hoping that all of our families can at least come out to dinner with us or something that day. I have no clue how many people they'll let you have at a little ceremony preformed by a judge at the courthouse. It's all so nerve-wracking!

But here's my bridal set!

It'll have another band on top as well but this is the set. We're adding another band because this comes as a set though you can order another wedding band separately but not the engagement ring part. DBF doesn't have very good credit due to AT&T screwing him last deployment by not putting his account in suspension like they were supposed to and sending an almost $2,000 bill to collections. We did try to get it solved but the guy who was going to do it is a total asshole and apparently sent a claim in but didn't follow up so if we do another claim is goes to fraud. But anyway, DBF can't afford to buy the whole set outright right now but he'll be able to after his deployment so he's just going to buy a separate band now so I'll have a ring. I actually like it better with the second band anyway. We just stopped looking after we tried this one on. I guess that's how you know you've found the one.