mrs.riley?

i am a walking contradiction. my last post was related to marriage... the appropriate age to do it, if at all. this week, all i can think about is the future. i have weddings on the brain. two of our friends got married over the weekend on the central coast. she posted pics on myspace and she had some really cute ideas. so now everything i look at, i correlate with weddings. for example, crate & barrel has these cute candle centerpiece things that could be arranged nicely if done correctly. not exactly like this one, but similar. in my head, brett & i are getting married in october. i'm not sure what year.... it's not like i haven't dropped major hints.


*one* i made him drive 3 hours out of his way to see this beautiful ring i had found. i wanted him to see it on my finger. this was after a few short months of dating. and after i had already given him the jeweler's card with the skew number on the back, the ring size, the price and the sale price.


*two* i'm sure i've shown him this about five-hundred-thousand times. oh tiffany, i love you!

and i've showed him this one.



and of course a girl needs one for work, right? so this would be the matching band.

i just don't know what to do to actually get him to pop the question. i remember a long time ago he informed me that i'm supposed to propose to him. so instead i think i'll just buy a bunch of wedding-esque stuff to randomly lay around the house until he figures it out. i'll probably have this entire planner, that i'm seriously contemplating buying, filled out before we're ever engaged. even though i'm not martha stewart's biggest fan, the woman does have great taste!

i'm not going to cross my fingers or hold my breath, but i'm hoping this is hanging on our door next christmas, with "the riley's" engraved on it. *sigh* i loves him.

ps remind me to post something about brett's face when he says that. that & he just compared us to britney & k-fed. where do i? how do i? oh my boy is SPECIAL:)