We've set the date!

As of Tuesday afternoon, we officially have a date for our wedding! Prior to this, the great question was where we were going to get married. One option would be at a church here in Grapevine with the recption nearby. The second option (and my dream option) was to get married at the church that my parents married in. This church also looks like it just walked out of a Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tale. The only problem with option 2 was that as a non-member, I can only book 4 months out, which would be an insane risk to take. Well, my mom found out that the pastor who married them still works at the church so she decided to send him and email and call him to see if there was any loophole since they used to be members and I was baptized there. We hadn't heard back so I was getting discouraged. I mean, he must get questions like this all the time, right? Well, Tuesday afternoon, the phone call comes in! He completely remembered my parents and my aunt and uncle (he married them as well) and he said that he would love to marry her daughter (me!). When my mom told me, I was litereally screaming and jumping up and down in my cubicle at work. Not only do I get to be married in the beautiful church that my parents got married in, I also get to be married by the same pastor! How romantic is that?! So, we are now officially on the books at Highland Park Methodist Church for Saturday, January 29th, 2011!!! The funny thing is, this date is almost 30 years to the day that my parents married (January 24th, 1981). My parents fly in tomorrow and Casey and I are going with my parents on Saturday to meet the pastor and tour the church. Here is a pic of the church...