Hello! How’s everyone doing? Well, we hope! Billiam and I have decided to (try to) create a Wedding Blog to store “important info” prior to (& possibly after) our bliss-filled day of matrimony. We will continuously update it with hotel/inn suggestions, directions, stuff-to-do-s, and various other random things. You can also leave any comments and/or questions on the blog & we will appreciate/answer them ASAP.
[Note: PLEASE forgive us – we have no clue what we are doing…in general… & especially with this blog.]
Now, where to start? Intro first and then more to follow? Sounds like a plan!
This is OUR STORY…& we’re sticking to it!!
The story of Bill & Jenni is one cloaked with mystery and ice cream. Essentially this means that we can’t remember how or when it was that we met exactly. There is no real cutely-romantic story behind it all. I could try to make one up for you using actual events/facts but i can’t say that it would be the one particular occasion that set the stage for this coming wedding. So here’s the 1st date story…
Bill is a friend of Mike Swindell’s from school (Winthrop University) and was slowly introduced into Mike’s group of friends – of which Jenni had been a part for about 5 years. After hanging out casually as friends for who knows how long, Jenni started dropping VERY subtle hints to Bill that she was interested in him. As you all probably are aware subtlety just doesn’t work for Jenni very well and she is not one to stand around waiting patiently for fate or Cupid to intervene on her behalf.
Two weeks of playing coy and being “all girlie” was quite enough for Jenni. Before Bill left on his family trip to Austria that summer, Jenni wrote Bill an email advising him that she would very much like it if he stopped dragging his feet already and asked her out on a date. Upon his return Bill did just that! Their first date was the Webster’s Dictionary definition of “perfection.” Jenni drove to Rock Hill, met Bill’s best friend/roommate (Mike Smith) and Bill’s kids (Artemis and Porter) and then she hopped on the back of Bill’s motorcycle. They rode to a park where they sat in a field of clover, ate pints of Ben & Jerry’s with the fireflies and the rain, and talked about everything and nothing…and fell in love.
Bill & Jenni
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1year anniversary)
