The Wedding Plans for Peter Plott and Amy Roberts

Friday, September 26, 2008

Peter and I are a very casual couple. Laid back and easy going is our mantra. We both work 40 hour a week technical position. I am an instructional designer and he is a contracted programmer. But when we leave the office… we leave the office. We don’t even have a computer set up at “home.” (Wow it is exciting to know that will be home for me in just a number of months) Home is a 20 acre ranch with cat, dog, grass to cut, 5 horses (one pregnant) and a lot of tires to manage. (Tractors, trucks, cars, motorcycle, bikes, 4 wheelers and anything else that creates an added responsibility.) So it is not odd to come home to him on a set of those tires doing any number of things. We often daydream by driving around the property and talking about where fixed or new fence needs our attention, where the house will eventually go in relations to the barn house he lives in now, or which pasture will have cows and which is more suited for additional stalls. So pulling in the drive way to find him on the four-wheeler saying, “hop on… let’s daydream a bit before we decide on dinner” was nothing new.  I got on the 4 wheeler and we went to the front of the property.  We have cleared everything but the live oaks and hard woods recently, so there is lots of space to be creative. We talked about the cows, the grass, and DHEC’s approval of the septic tank… all things that seemed very normal... Then we got romantic and talked about the bedroom and the front porch and the excitement of planning our future… also, all very normal. As a matter of fact, the only thing that seem out of place was that the four-wheeler was acting up and he had to get off of it to hand crank the battery. At which point I asked… “So, exactly where will the front porch be?” and he drove about 20 feet ahead and the four-wheeler cut off again. But this time, when he got off, he took both of my hands and turned me toward him…. pulling me to a standing position. He said the only reason daydreaming is exciting is that he is dreaming with me.  I believe is his exact words were, “I love you and want you to be my wife and to spend the rest of your life with me.”As he reached in the heart pocket of the Carhartt jacket, he asked, “Is that okay with you?” As he pulled out a ring, I threw my arms around him and could barely answer when he said … “well, does that mean you want to put it on?” I held out my hand and he slid the heirloom diamond onto my finger and I said, “Yes! Yes to all of the above!!!”

We stood in the moment being the only two in the whole world!! He told me how his biological father, who passed away, passed down the center stone, and that his mother, who passed away about a year and a half ago gave him one of the side stone and that his dad, who raised him and the man I will know and love as father-in-law offered the other side stone. Peter set the three treasures in a platinum band to create an heirloom that will be an honor and a blessing to wear. We looked around and made reference to our future together, on this property, in this very spot. He took two stakes and placed an “X” in the ground to ensure that the spot where we decided to plan together does actually end up the front porch in our plans.  I can see in the years to come that every time we come into or leave this house, we will be reminded of our commitment to each other on this… otherwise ordinary day!

We plan to be married in the spring with a classy Charleston wedding.