Start as you mean to go on???

WoooHooo!!!!
He did it...I'm Engaged!!!

So I think its only fair you get some background.
I have been a smidge obsessed about weddings ever since (birth!) my baby sister did the very un-decent thing of getting married before me. I know right....how dare she!! I knew you'd be on my side! (Yes it is about sides...we're sisters...Its ALWAYS about sides).
So there it is. Toni (the sis) is getting married and there I am in the very first flushes of romance. Sooo far removed from marriage talk of my own that the fact I have decided already exactly which wedding cake im having seems maybe a bit inappropriate. But anyway, its fine....I truely believe that as soon as Toni has her wedding ill calm down. Its just the whirlwind of her wedding thats sweeping me up with all the romance right??

Fast forward a year, Toni had her wedding. It was beautiful. And suprisingly so, the tears shed by me on the day were not jealousy tears, but tears that my un-cooperative son wouldnt remove his dummy for any of the photos! (As you'll no doubt also discover later on I also have a small obsession with photography, aswell as weddings....which makes the dream of wedding photographer a compleatly plausable one).

So its all over..Toni can bask in the glow of new bride and ill go back to allowing my boyfriend to have a conversation with me about something other than weddings, right?....WRONG!! Now im not usually the sister who is known for her "opinionated view's" but something inside me had changed. I had become (in the words of my new brother in law) a bunny boiler. Personally, I think his words are harsh! I have to admit I was wedding crazy, so coupled with the fact that EVERYONE seemed to be getting engaged made not a very happy Kelly! Needless to say the subsequent romantic trips we went on were mainly spent, by me, waiting for him to get down on one knee! This did not happen. So like the mature, dignified adult I am...I sulked. And sulked and sulked some more. I think the turning point was when some close friends got engaged and I threw an almighty strop. At this point I knew not only had I lost the plot, but something needed doing about my wedding attitude.
But then because Matt is the superstar that he is (or I eventually wore him down...the minor details are not relevent) I got my proposal!!! WooHoo!!

So after the mandatory phoning of the parents and close family, I did what any sain person of our time does...and notified the world through Facebook!!!!
Kelly Marsh is now Engaged!!
comments: (I wont name the friend who commented, I dont do confrontation!!) Congratulations Kelly, My marriage broke down today!
.............(pause)...............Oh!

So...start as you mean to go on is the turn of phrase....Lets hope not eh, or I may drive poor Matt to distraction with my new found oppinionated view's.