Wedding Sexism

I just started filling out information for my bridal registry at Amazon.com and Target, but I noticed that I always write "Chris and Briana's Wedding Registry," instead of "Briana and Chris' Registry". Is it weird that I find this weird? I even tried to write it the second way, but I felt well... presumptuous and narcissistic. Then I felt mad that I felt that way..because, well, why shouldn't I be able to write it whatever way that I want!?

I'm Engaged!!

My dearest boyfriend, Christopher Meade, asked me to marry him on November 27, 2009. Since then, it has been a flurry of crazy wedding plans and people congratulating us. I have been intimidated by blogging because I don't know how to do justice to the day we got engaged--it was so perfect! Apparently, my two friends Mykal, Kendra, and my sister, Mikella, knew about the plan the whole time. We had planned to go watch a movie with Chris on Friday, after he finished working at his valet job. He called me and told me that he would be late, so while we waited for him to arrive, they all convinced me to dress up nice. I felt so wonderful and girly. Hint to all guys who are going to ask a girl to marry them: do it when they feel nice & pretty--I promise you it'll go over so much better! Anyways, Chris took me to his apartment and then he opened the door of his car and stood there outside of his apartment. I had no idea it was coming, but when I put my hand on his shoulder, he was hot and shaking! I think I knew for a split second, but it didn't really matter because suddenly...he was down on one knee with a sparkling diamond ring in a beautiful black box. Then, when we walked into his apartment, there was fifty tealights placed all over the living room, roses everywhere, and these beautiful scrolls tied with silver ribbon placed all over the room. A poster on the wall said "Fourteen beautiful things I love about Briana" and on the scrolls he had written all the things he loved about me!
Later, after Chris took our first home video (which was basically shots of me crying and balling my eyes out and saying really gushy stuff like "we're going to be in love forever!"), we went to a Tapas restaurant in Naperville, where, little did I know, my friends were all waiting for me to arrive, the newly engaged Briana-soon-to-be Meade! We had a wonderful dinner. The restaurant also had these walls where you could write with Sharpie your names--so we made a big heart that said "Chris and Briana Meade" and underneath we wrote "always and forever."