Day 1-11

First off, I would like to thank everyone for being in our lives and helping us through every step.  We are so grateful that God has put you all in our lives.  I will be keeping a blog for anyone who would like to follow all the steps or just curious what we are doing.  I will do my best to update it twice a week for the remaining 164 days until I take Tanya Lynn to be my bride.... and then y'all are on your own.  I may word vomit at times or forget people or things that happened that day, please forgive me.  This is my first time blogging.

This is our story.  I apologize for being so late.  God is amazing and He continues to shine all around us.  As for how we got started you will have to check out our story on the website.  For all that has happened since then I will try to catch you up.  I will tell the story of how I asked her in a later blog so please bare with me.  From day 1 Christ has been guiding us to which venue to pick to colors to invitations.  I will spare all of the long drawn out stories I normally have but we will be married in the Collier Chapel.  The Collier Chapel was built in I believe 1850 ish and has beautiful stain glass windows and heating don't worry ladies.  Debra aka the bomb mom aka my mommy will be doing all decorations for the wedding both the ceremony and the reception.  The color is navy blue.  Any decorating questions or comments should be directed to her.  If you wish to make comments on here I would be more than happy to relay them to her.  From the Collier Chapel we will be heading over to the Schindler Banquet Hall to have to reception.  There will be food for all there, although what exactly is just to be determined.  We will have music so if you have a song you would like played please request it on the wedding website so we can make sure it makes it into the play list (please remember this is a celebration and that songs must be child appropriate).

I have selected my best man and groomsmen,  Chuck will be standing as my best man.  The one who has known me since I was a wee one and we got into more trouble together in those days than I care to admit.  He will stand and fight for my marriage as a brother but also as a brother who knows that Christ is at the  center of the relationship.  Bryan will be standing in as one of my groomsmen.  Bryan started dating Flu Flu aka Megan and I was forced to meet him as it was my duty to make sure anyone that was around her was to treat her the right way.  After the first handshake I would have to call him one of my best friends and can bounce ideas and ideas relating to Christ off of him.  Tim will also be standing up for me.  I met Tim when we were getting ready for football practice in middle school and he has been  by my side ever since.  We lived together for a while and have conquered many things including West Virginia's white waters many football teams and friendships.  Puddy aka Josh will be standing for me.  Josh has been around since the soccer days where I use to call him the kid with red hair and red shoes (I was/am horrible with names)  We have hashed out many things about life and Josh always stood by me.  He is loyal and would stick up for us any day.  I truly am grateful that God has put so many people in my life I can depend on and are amazing friends and brothers. 

Tanya has been shopping, and if you don't know deals go out of their way to find her, and has found a great deal on invitations.  Yes we know we will not be mailing them for another 62-73 days but when they jump in your basket and want to be taken home for a few cents how can you say no.  Kort is going to be photographing Tanya (and me unless I can dodge the camera) for our engagement pictures in two weeks (so keep you eye out on our photo album) and also be doing our wedding pictures.  She is very skilled with the camera and we look forward to working with her.  We are currently working on guests lists, the budget, and odds and ends things right now.  Megan Kamp will be designing our save the dates and as we already have a couple of sample, we grow more and more excited to see where Christ will lead us next in this process.  We have decided to have a wedding planner (or gopher/coordinator/wedding day fixer for all you guys). 

I think that is all I am going to have time for tonight.  We appreciate your prayers, comments, and thoughts as we continue on this journey.  Please pray the Christ can use us as He has planned.  Thank you again for reading and if I do forget anything feel free to, kindly, remind me and I will make sure I give that update on the next post.

Love

Dave and Tanya