My name is Sarah Haman and I am so excited to be having my wedding reception at Bella Sala next June 19th. Melissa and Lyndsie have been amazing to work with.
My fiancee Phil Cooling and I have known each other since high school. We never dated then, but were friends. He was a senior when I was a freshman, so there are a few years between us. Actually there are three years exactly between our birthdays. We share October 10th for our birthdays. He was born in 1983 and myself in 1986. We never really kept in touch after he graduated since he was in college and I was still in high school. We always dated other people and never really thought about dating each other.
After my Sophomore year of college I was moving in with a friend and got a text message from a number I didn't recognize. It said something about going out boating that weekend with them. Well I just ignored it because I didn't know the number at the time. They then sent another message saying something about well if you don't want to just tell me. So I texted the number back saying that I didn't know who it was. Well he then told me that it was him (Phil). I couldn't go boating that weekend, but he said that he would be going next weekend and that I could go if I wanted it. Well the next weekend my friend and I went home that next weekend and went boating with Phil and some of our other friends. I guess at this point I could just say that the rest is history, but not quite yet.
January of 2008 brought a point in our relationship that caused us to split for a few months. I think we were both pretty heart broken about it, but with the situation we needed to know that we were suppose to be together. We still talked every now and then while we weren't together and as time went by we started talking more and more. We ended up going to a few wedding together in March and April together and just ended up back together.
We have been together ever since and we have now been engaged for four months. Back in May I graduated from UNI and for my graduation present we planned a weekend at the end of May to go to Chicago for two Chicago Cubs games. We went to May 29th and 30th games against the LA Dodgers.
We got up at 4:00 a.m. that Friday morning to leave for Chicago. Our tickets were in the stand behind the Cubs dugout (which were awesome). The Dodgers scored a run in the top of the 7th inning and then came the 7th inning stretch. We sang "Take me out to the ballgame" and then Phil asked a lady in the row in front of us to take our picture. She took the picture and then he asked her to take one more. I didn't think much about it, but then when I looked at him he was getting down on one knee. I was like "what are doing?" and then he asked me to marry him. I just stood there with my hand out and he was like "well..." and then I finally answered "YES!!!". Everyone around us that saw what was going on started cheering. I was so surprised!! The Cubs come up in the bottom of the 7th and the first batter up, Koyie Hill, hit a homerun to tie it up. The Cubs ended up winning on both Friday and Saturday!! The funny part was that the ring box was too big to fit in Phil pocket and he was!
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carrying around an engagement ring loose in his pocket. He told me he was so nervous that we was going to throw into some bums cups with his loose change.
Since then we have been trying to get all the big items planned and booked for our big date June 19, 2010.
Thanks,
Sarah Haman & Phil Cooling
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