Big announcements need to be made sooner or later. In this case we chose later but later is now. Sarah and I are getting married on Sunday May 22nd. Sarah and I are also very excited to be having a baby together. The baby is expected to be born on October 31st 2005, Halloween. To simplify the math Sarah is now 13 weeks pregnant. At the moment she is out with her mother looking for a wedding dress. The wedding isn’t going to be a very large affair but it is proving complex enough for the month that we have allocated to plan and organize it. There are a lot of moving parts to weddings but even more moving parts in a developing fetus.

Things have been very condensed for us because we have been announcing everything in person to people where possible up until now since we wanted to let our families and closest friends know in person. This has been further complicated because Sarah was very sick with morning sickness that led to her getting a sinus infection that had her pretty much knocked out until last Monday.



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We had a romantic plan where Jeremy would arrive with appropriate rings in hand that I had selected and commissioned with him when we went down to New York to the jewelry district. Sarah and I would fly to a wedding of one of Sarah’s close friends in Los Angeles leaving at six AM on Saturday. We would then announce our plans to her friends at the wedding there. We were also going to have a more formal proposal somewhere on the trip at a romantic location by the ocean or in a spectacular natural setting.

Since Sarah was so sick and in a delicate state we cancelled the trip at the last minute to give her time to recover from the sinus infection and stop regurgitating everything she ate. When Jeremy arrived on Friday night we had already postponed the flight.

I kneeled in front of Sarah as she lay sick on the couch with the nicely polished ring that Jeremy hand delivered to me and asked her to marry me in the traditional begging fashion as is required. She wasn’t that surprised with the proposal since she knew that the rings were being delivered but she was very happy. She accepted the proposal and made a miraculous recovery over the course of the next 48 hours. In sickness and in health, eh? Who ever said that you needed to propose at a fancy meal with a beautiful view?

At that point we had actually announced to many people because we wanted to invite them to the wedding. So technically I should say that we had decided to get married earlier than the proposal when the pregnancy test came back positive. But even that would be too late in the story to make sense. We agreed to get married when Sarah stopped taking birth control in October if she were to get pregnant. Maybe when she moved in with me last summer we had already decided what our plans were going to be.

We had always said that if Sarah got pregnant then that would be when we would get married. We were both working hard and doing our allotted parts to get her pregnant so we didn’t have a punctuated proposal like some people have. We have been happy together but experienced enough in life to avoid signing documents and making big commitments until we had the real impetus to do so. This feels right to Sarah and me and a fitting way for us to jump headfirst into committing to a life together.

We are so excited and are happy that our families and friends are so supportive and share our excitement. We are both very anxious and hopeful to meet the little person growing inside of Sarah – a subject that dominates our thoughts and dreams lately.