Engaged!

Amanda Pedone and Ryan Clarke's Wedding Blog

Well, after almost seven years together, me and Ryan are actually getting married. I'm setting up this blog to kind of document all the stuff we will be going through from now till the actual wedding in November of 2006. Kind of an internet scrapbook.

We got in engaged on August 20, 2005 on Sunset Beach in Cape May. We were down there for the weekend visiting Mikey with Lawrence and Chrissy, and they were actually all there when he asked me.

Mikey knew someone who would make an announcement over the loud speaker on the beach, so Ryan told the women to say I was beautiful and that my hand looked like it was meant to be held (cheesey line from our first date). Then, Ryan got down on one knee and asked. Lawrence actually videotaped the whole thing! They were planning this the whole weekend. I like to joke how my whole vacation was a lie!

About two weeks later Ryan, Mikey, Lawrence, and I went to the Feast of San Gennaro's on Long Island to ask my cousin, who is a priest, if he would perform the ceremony (and to get some real Italian food!) He said yes, so now we made an appointment to talk to the priest at Ryan's church and confirm our date and start really planning this thing.