Mother of the Bride

Jane Anne recently got engaged and now I am "Mother of the Bride-to-be"!!! Imagine my delight at having a chance to go with a beloved daughter and shop for the wedding dress and discuss the plans for her special day. This is something that every mother of a daughter dreams of!!
When Janie and her boyfriend, Colby Neville, decided to get engaged, they only got to go ring shopping once. He goes to school in Logan at Utah State and she is here in Provo at BYU and week-ends are the only time they can see each other. (I think both sets of parents were so glad when these two decided to get married---this long distance relationship meant lots of driving for one or the other or both of them---and most of the commuting was done late at night during the winter months adding worry at least for me!) Anyway, as their schedules worked out, they were not able to see each other for two weeks after the initial trip to a jewelry store. So, Jane Anne asked me to come along and go ring shopping with her! We looked at the mall and didn't find the right one, so we decided to go to the store where Jared and Ryan both had found rings for their wives. Janie carefully looked at all the rings and found one she really liked! It has filligree work up the sides of the ring with a leaf design in tiny diamonds. A round diamond is in the center and it is bordered on either side with two plain silver bands. It is so pretty! Another surprising thing is that the design is similar to my own wedding ring! She officially got engaged Friday, April 17th!


We found the perfect wedding dress! Janie had been several places and tried on some dresses that she liked but we just weren't sure if we had found "the one". The wedding planner that she works for, Kimberly Roy, told her that she should feel like a princess in her wedding dress. So we were looking for that special dress. We were on our way to Salt Lake to check out all the bridal stores, when we decided to stop in Lehi at a shop recommended by some of our friends. It is called the "Bridal Center" and is in a little old building that Bob would describe as "a ruby in the rough". We were met by a wonderful woman, Julie, who asked Jane Anne some questions about what styles she liked, etc... and then Julie picked out four dresses for her to try. She picked her favorite and when she put it on, she knew it was "the dress"! It fit perfectly and is absolutely gorgeous!!! I have pictures of her in the dress but she requested that I not use those on this blog because Colby isn't supposed to see her in the dress until the big day. I feel so lucky and so relieved that we found the dress---what was anticipated as being a long day of shopping in Salt Lake turned out to be a short morning of success in Lehi!