Jamie and John's Blog

Here's my first attempt at using Adobe Illustrator to design our own wedding monogram for the invitations, napkins, etc. I saw in a magazine that only 20% of couples design their own monogram... Leave some comments, let me know what you think and any other ideas you might have... THANKS!

This year was our fifth Valentines day together. I have never made John celebrate because I don't really care, but this year we had a romantic dinner. John made a fire in the fire place and I cooked dinner. Valentines Day fell on a Thursday which meant John had just finished some prints in his photo-lab. (John has a new hobby-photography. He is taking a photography class where you take and develop pictures and learn about perspective and art etc. ) After dinner, John handed me a stack of photos to sort through so he could show me what he has learned. I looked through a few and everything looked great until I saw a picture of John playing Scrabble. I laughed because it obviously didn't fit in with the rest, but I finally understood when I saw the next picture. It was a picture of his Scrabble board with the words "Jamie will you marry me". By the time I gasped and looked up, John was on one knee. He said the sweetest proposal and asked me again, "wil...

We got engaged on Feb 14, 2008, which was on Valentine's Day ...completely by coincidence. The ring just happened to be ready on the 13th, and Jamie was working for the following few days, so the timing was right, Valentine's or not. Look for the proposal story to come soon, and be sure to ask Jamie to see the ring...it's blingin if I do say so myself.