My Dream Cake

Today when reading a wedding blog called Intimate Weddings, I stumbled upon the cake of my dreams:

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~~Katie

Wedding Planning Weekend

This past weekend I was able to head home to nail down some wedding details. Josh works pretty much every day over the weekend, so he had to entrust the wedding reception venue search to me. I'm realizing it's going to be hard to start planning this wedding while living 2 hours away! The trip home was both successful and unsuccessful. It was successful in that I found my dress :) :) :) :) It's a great story that I will post soon. But it was unsuccessful in that we didn't make any final decisions on our reception location. Our first potential location was the Novi Community Center - they have a huge atrium with beautiful wall length windows and really high ceilings. BUT, the man we toured with (who ironically was my sister's basketball coach from middle school) told us that we cannot be guaranteed our date - for instance, last year a bride had her wedding date picked and payment in, but the mayor decided he was going to have a convection that day, so the bride had to change her wedding day, and all her plans without much of a notice. Needless to say, I don't really want to take a chance and Josh agrees. So onto our next option, the Wixom Community Center - it's definitely pretty and could work (not necessarily with my rustic theme idea tho :( ), but.. (of course there is a but..) they are booked on the day Josh and I were thinking would work best for us and our families. So again, the search continues... But for now, Josh and I are enjoying a relaxing Sunday night:


~~Katie

Mushy Memories: My First Birthday Gift From Josh

To share all of our stories, I'm going to start an ongoing post called, "Mushy Memories." Here's the first one, enjoy!!

About three months into our blossoming relationship my 13th birthday was just around the corner. I remember being really nervous about what Josh would get me for my birthday, but he did great! :) One of our first movies we watched together was A Walk to Remember. I had seen the movie a few times in theaters and had rented it also, but didn't have a copy. So, Josh bought me my very own copy of the movie on VHS! Yes, VHS - and he bought it the day it came out! I still have it today and watch it whenever I can.

Fun Fact: the first movie we watched together in theaters was The Counte of Monte Cristo (which Josh cleverly included in the proposal) and the first movie we watched not in theaters was Brokedown Palace!

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Rustic Reception

Of course as soon as I got a spare minute of time after Josh proposed I was doing wedding 'research' as I like to call it. My sister (who you'll see me refer to as CC) introduced me to Wedding Blogs which I subscribe to from Google Reader (If you follow multiple Blogs, Google Reader makes it SO much easier!). I also am a huge fan of theknot.com and have been secretly getting ideas from there since my freshman year of college! Anyway, one of my first major ideas was to have our wedding reception in a barn. Josh hated the idea at first and asked if, "we'd be shooting our dinner out back?" Once I showed him some of these pictures his eyes were open to my vision:

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But much to my dismay and after hours of online research and phone calls, I cannot find a barn that is big enough for the amount of people we are inviting and close enough to where we plan on having our ceremony. After a few weeks of being discouraged and losing excitement for my vision, I started searching again, and that's kind of where we are now. I have found a few potentional places, and am going to check them out this weekend. I still want to use the elegant rustic theme, but I'm just not sure if it'll fit right in our prospective venues. I'm still a little dissapointed but have come to terms that there are no barns perfect for what we need. My family has even joked about building our own barn.. I know there's somewhere perfect for us, but finding it is the hard part!

~~Katie

Our Story: Josh's Version

Once upon a time in the mid 90s, in a little white church, a 5th grade girl and a 6th grade boy sat in sunday school together. The boy had no idea who this stunning new girl was, but he was determined to find out. He leaned back in his chair and and tried his best to pay attention to the lesson... fail. He couldn't take his eyes off of this 4 foot 6 5th grade beauty. As it turns out, however, she was PART of the sunday school lesson. She was the prophetess Deborah from Judges 4. Because she was acting out the part of Deborah, and the Sunday school teacher kept referring to her with that name, that must have been her name. That day this 6th grade boy knew that he was going to marry this 'Deborah' girl. Turns out though, her name wasn't Deborah, it was Katie, Katie Cain; and his name, well, his name was Josh, and thats me. This really is the first memory I have of Katie. We grew up together in that church, moving from elementary school into junior high where we started our relationship together. Somewhere between nervous conversations and impersonal IMs, we fell in love and on May 18th that year in 8th grade, I asked her if she would "be my girlfriend" in the parking lot of that little white church. Needless to say, she said yes, and that marked the day of my first girlfriend. Being junior highers in the late 90s, AIM was the core communicator for the next six months in our relationship. We talked about our feelings on AIM, we planned our first kiss over AIM, and we decided to call it quits because of AIM (and by decided to call it quits I mean Katie broke up with me because we never talked in person). Over the course of the next 2 and a half years, we became the best of friends. Then, after Katie and I began attending the same school, we started dating again. The official date was March 25th of my Junior year and we have been dating ever since. We stayed strong through the distance of college and have grown even stronger together as a whole. This past July we got engaged and now we are looking forward to 'dating' for the rest of our lives. I love you Katie Cain.

Our Story: Katie's Version

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Josh & I met back when I was in 5th grade and he was in 6th. Our families went to the same church which we still attend today. My first memory of him was in Mr. Speight's Sunday School Class but he had cooties so I didn't really want much to do with him. But things soon changed when I was now in 6th grade and Josh was in 7th. We expressed an interest in liking each other through our friend Stephanie and before I knew it we were talking on AOL Instant Messenger every day. Josh asked me to be his girlfriend and I said, "of course!" We 'dated' (if middle schoolers can even date..) for 6 months and then I broke up with Josh (Yes, I still hear about it to this day..) Josh and I did still stay friends which I think was all Josh's secret ploy to sweep me off my feet again one day. Fast forwarding to when Josh was a junior in highschool and I was a sophomore, we both knew that we wanted to date again. A few months after transferring to Josh's highschool, Southfield Christian, in the middle of my sophomore year, Josh asked me to be his girlfriend again: March 25, 2005! The rest is pretty much history! So we have officially been dating for a little over 4 and half years. But, Josh likes to forget the break up and say we've beend dating for almost 8 years! I love him!