Kevin & Reina are engaged!

Excited – I picked my flower girl! It was pretty easy actually; it turns out that I don’t know that many young girls so Elise was a natural choice. Her father and grandparents work with my parents, and my father is her godfather, which makes me her godsister! I’ve noticed that the god-relationship isn’t very strong in America, but in the Philippines your godparents and god-siblings are supposed to be a very important part of your life.

Anyway I went to see her grandmother (I’m closest to her) to run the idea by her and she thought it would be great so I went to Elise, who is three, with a pretty little note asking her to be my flower girl. She immediately said yes, albeit a bit shyly because everyone was kind of standing around her waiting for her response but I can tell she’s super excited, as I am.

She’s quite pretty, with sweet big brown eyes and a pretty spunky personality. Best of all, she’s a fashion addict like me – starting off at an early age! So I’m sure she’ll lend a very sassy start to my procession. Just need to go on a shopping spree to find a pretty dress for her! I think I’d like to go with something extremely poufy, à la Cinderella, with lots and lots of tulle. Something mainly white with perhaps a green ribbon and flowers for her hair!

I’ve been emailing about booking the Chapel at Seton Hall University, and I think depending on law school we’ll try to book something for early summer 2010. It’s a little frustrating because it seems quite easy to book the Chapel (the woman who does the bookings is extremely responsive and helpful), but everything pretty much depends on where I’m going to law school, which determines when we can get married. Basically all that matters to us is that we are able to actually be together once we’re married; that is, I’m not in law school in Jersey while he’s in DC. So I have to wait to hear back from all the schools I applied to before we can set a more concrete date. But so far I’m really hoping for Spring 2010!

Anyway, I really love the Chapel and I think it’s really special because we’re both SHU graduates. It’s quite small actually; I haven’t been to Mass there for a while but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t hold more than 150 people. I love that though, since I’m hoping that we can keep the entire affair more intimate. I didn’t really look around anywhere else but it seems quite inexpensive too: it’s $1000 for the cantor, organist, and sacristan fee, but you have to provide your own priest. I think I’ll ask a priest at my home parish, St. Agnes in Clark, but we’ll see!

Also the Chapel is totally new! It was under renovation for the good part of last year and just re-opened a few months ago. I think it’s lovely and I highly praise it whenever I give campus tours.

On Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 12:01AM, Kevin proposed to me with a beautiful diamond ring! And I said yes! We created this blog to keep our family & friends updated on everything that’s going on with us. We haven’t set a date yet but we expect to narrow it down as soon as we’re sure of our plans after graduation!

Note: That ring in the photo isn’t the one he gave me… I’ll post photos soon!