The Dreyer-Skiles Wedding

OMG WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!!!

The first thought after he proposed! One year later, while we're planning the wedding, I still can't believe I found my soul mate, the person I am meant to spend the rest of my life with.

Fairy-tale come true! But wait, we're moving to Hawaii, how in the hell are we going to plan our Houston wedding??? The thought I had when I got that text message from Chris:

MONDAY, JULY, 20, 2009 7:11:11 PM
It's official! We're going to Hawaii! :)

I was floored, ecstatic and honestly, a little scared. We made it here, and we'll make it through the wonderful (sometimes stressful) experience of planning a wedding.

One year after being engaged. Six months after living here in Maui. We are well on our way:
1. Ceremony site - check
2. Reception site (including food, plates, glasses, cake, fruit table, DJ, Videographer, Photographer if we wanted, but didn't end up using) - check
3. Wedding Dress & Veil - CHECK!
4. Bridesmaids Dresses - check
5. Flowers - check
6. Photographer - check
7. Guest list - near final
8. Invitations - in the process (Chris is designing them, sooooo.... he'll have them ready when it's time :)

Granted, I did get a lot of this done when I went back to Houston over the holidays. Some ask, well since you got so many details done in such little time (I was in Houston for 10 days), why was the wedding pushed back so far?? Good question. 1. Before I went back, I did A LOT of research on everything from reception sites, to DJ's to dresses etc. So I knew what we wanted and knew good deals. 2. Chris and I are still saving as I speak 3. Wedding takes time to plan.

Besides being away from our family and friends, Chris and I are missing out on a lot of things for the wedding while living here. We don't get to go with your wedding party to pick out our dresses and tuxes. We're missing out on registering for our wedding gifts in person (There is no Bed Bath and Beyond here, so we have to register on-line.) Basically, just missing out on some of the things that make preparing for a wedding fun. It's a little hard, but we definitely couldn't be doing it without the support of our friends and family.

Don't get us wrong, we love it here, we love the opportunity and experience we're getting. We just can't wait to get home and have our wedding! See all the hard work that we've been doing, seeing our family and friends, and starting a new chapter of our life.

As if all this wasn't hard enough for us, something else happened, which has made it a lot harder being here. We found out about a month after living here, that my mother Liliana Dreyer, was diagnosed with Uterine Cancer. Ummmm, wow like life wasn't hard enough, we can't even be there to help look after her. As of today, my mother has undergone her second round of intensive chemo and is staying strong and healthy. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers. My mother has always been the strong one of the family, taking care of everyone. So I know it's hard for her to let everyone else take care of her.

We know she has a strong support system at home: my dad has been such a huge support and in my mom's words "a rock that I don't know where I would be without him." I couldn't say it better than myself. My sister and Dave, my brother and Kimberlee have been there whenever they have need anything. My mom couldn't do it without yall, thank you guys for taking care of her since we can't!

I have always been really close to my parents. So hearing this news and not being able to be there has been one of the hardest things I have had to deal with. Thanks to Christopher, things have been, and always are, easier to deal with. But I tell you what: if you ever met my mother you know she has such a zest for life, cares about everything and everyone and likes to say she is always better than she is. Even through all this, my mother always asks me if there is anything else she can do for the wedding, how can she and my dad help etc. Thanks to them, we really will be able to have the wedding of our dreams. On top of all that: we had to leave our little Yorkie, Buster, who will be two on February 14, with my parents. Buster loves my parents, the big backyard and swimming pool he has and not to mention, my parents LOVE him too.

I honestly have the best parents, an amazing family and now I get to spend the rest of my life with the man of my dreams.

Fairy-tale Wedding: 8 MONTHS TO GO!!!!!