Introducing the Functional Bride

Hi Everyone!  My name is Karlee Tucker, and you can call me the Functional Bride!

Technically, I am a Functional-Bride-To-Be--hence the web address: “www.thefunctionalbridetobe.blogspot.com” but my hope is that you may place me into that category of “functional” (you will have to decide this on your own because I will be rather biased about this—I am the bride after all.)

The  Functional Bride

I guess you could also place me in the following categories:  Napa/Sonoma County Bride, Rustic Bride, Fall Bride, Innovative Bride, and the most awesome, most spectacular bride (the last one is strictly objective—Ryan thinks I am pretty spectacular—my goal would be to get you on my team in the process).

I bet you want to know what my fiancé looks like too, huh?  Well this is him:

Ryan making a kissy face.

The cliff

He waited, not 1, not 2, but 6 years (yes 6) to ask me to marry him. I had to get my hopes up a few times and dream that he would say those wonderful, magnificent 4 words:  “I lovith you much”—that’s not quite right—“Pochinie, I love you”—nope that’s not right either—“will you marry me?” Yup, that’s right. Except he didn’t say it like that, he said my first, middle and last name: “ Karlee Tucker Tucker will you marry me?”  (there has been some debate about my middle name).

He also asked me those splendid words next to a cliff—it was either a yes or a plunge into the watery depths. It was my choice, and according to Ryan, “I chose right.”

Years previous, he also said the "forbidden 3 words" next to a watery, ocean cliff. “I love you” became an option of survival too. Hmmmm…

Ryan was really clever though; he wouldn't tell me where we where going and he wouldn't tell me why (I had my suspicions after that).

Sappy moment warning:
He took me to Mendocino County and asked me to marry him. We were also in Mendocino County when he told me he loved me. Good job RyRy, good job.

Now back to the story...

I had been taking pictures with Ryan’s newly cleaned camera. Snap. Look. Snap. Look. And then I snapped an awesome photo of Ryan’s silhouette in the sunlight (really romantic stuff, yup).  I went to show him the awesome picture, and that’s when he told me he had a surprise. Awwww…

Ry contemplating life, and I suppose love.