Category — Wedding

Today I’ll take that Felipe is still sleeping and that my anxiety wakes me up at 6 in the morning, even on a rainy Sunday, to tell you something. Many of you already know it, and who’s read the page “Cris&Felipe” down to the end has probably noticed already.

The Brazilian part of this trip is a very important part. Not only because we miss a lot our country, families, friends and everything else. But also because at the end of two months there, it will be our wedding.

The idea of doing all this now began during Christmas last year, when we realized how we miss our loved ones and decided that for next Christmas we would be in Brazil. It will be the perfect opportunity for the wedding. When we come back to New Zealand next year we want to live in a house only both of us (no flatmates) and start a new life. Moreover, it will be wonderful to reunite families and friends after spending so much time away, and also because we don’t know when we’ll return to Brazil, with time enough to make this.

It was a few days before we went to Samoa. There was no celebration or engagement ring, but there was a video conference with my parents via MSN that was pretty emotional. Then it was my turn to ask permission to Felipe’s mom. I’ve never dreamed to marry like most girls, but suddenly I was sure, I was willing to celebrate, and I did the proposal. Each conversation with our families, was like a click inside and I thought “so it’s true, we will really get married!”. And the butterflies in my stomach were getting more and more intense.

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