Meet the Muirheads

After we got married on June 20th, we decided that we would start a blog. We don't really know what we are doing or how to do it, but we are going to try it.

At little bit about our engagement, wedding, and honeymoon.....

Drew and I got engaged on August 13, 2008, which was a Wednesday. It was a complete shock when Drew proposed....No one expects that they'd get engaged on a Wednesday night. Drew and I planned to meet at my house before going to dinner at his parents house.

Drew beat me to my house and decorated my room with roses and candles. There was so much decoration that my dog was too scared to come in the room. I, as usual, was running 30 minutes later than I thought I would from work.

By the time that I got home, Drew had lit and re-lit the candles three times to keep them from dripping. Unbeknownst to me, He was anxiously awaiting my arrival.

When I walked in the door, I could not find Drew. But Oscar led me to him. I was so shocked that I said 'What's going on here?' Drew murmured some mushy things and asked me to marry him. I obviously said 'Yes!' We called my family and some of our friends.

Oh, and we were having dinner at his parents house. They had no clue what was in store for them! We decided to surprise them, too. And we did.

After August 13th, we spent the next 10 months planning our wedding. We decided to get married in the Methodist church on West End Avenue that we had been attending. The perfect setting for a traditional wedding, with a couple of elegant lagniappes. We set our reception location for the Embassy Suites in Franklin.

The wedding colors were black and white. We were thorough with all of the details down to the black and white dots on the cake that coordinated with the flower girl's dress.

The weekend of the wedding came and went, and it was definitely a whirlwind. We had the best time and are so glad that we had the big, traditional wedding. Our families travelled from near and far to celebrate with us, as did our friends. We are so blessed to have such supportive friends and family!

There were not any major disasters, only anecdotes that will be fun to remember and talk about for the next 50 years. Especially some of our more whitty friends and one of the groomsmen's sunglasses. We think that there is an entire roll of film dedicated to said sunglasses. More on that later, which should include pictures.

The honeymoon was better than we ever imagined it would or could be. We went to Riviera Maya (aka Cancun). We stayed in the all inclusive Excellence Resort, which was fantastic. We ate, drank, and spent some R&R time with each other.

We did meet some very fun couples on the trip, and are trying to keep in touch with them.

We brought home some fat Mexicans (tiny, fat statues) that are displayed on our outside patio.

Oh, and we did go to a tequila tasting and for a short snorkeling trip. The tequila tasting, while the snorkeling was terrifying for me. Drew was fascinated with all of the pretty fish, while I was on the lookout for Jaws.

Now we are settling into married life. Its great! And we couldn't be happier....Well, um, ok, so slight correction. We could be happier, if our house was a little bigger.

More to come.....

love, brittany and drew .... the muirheads