NATCHEZ — Amber Lyles was dreaming of clovers and sangria when The Dart landed on her mother’s Ivy Lane home Saturday.

Lyles, 26, said she’s getting married Sept. 3 at Holy Family Catholic Church, and clover and sangria are her wedding colors.

“I’m just waiting on the day to get here,” she said.

And her fiancé, Jamaal Shannon, 31, doesn’t have to worry about a “bridezilla.”

“I’m excited and looking forward to my wedding,” Lyles said. “I haven’t turned into a bridezilla yet.”

Lyles’ godson, 7-month-old Floyd Johnson, son of Danteria Johnson and Joseph Dunbar Sr., already has his outfit picked out for the wedding.

He spent his Saturday with Lyles’ mother, Deborah.

“I’m crazy about the wedding,” Deborah Lyles said. “I love weddings anyway. Amber is my only daughter, so I’m especially going to support her.”

But one of the things Deborah Lyles said she’s most excited about is seeing Floyd coming down the aisle as the ring bearer.

Since he’s still too young to walk, he’ll be pulled in a wagon.

Amber Lyles said she and Shannon have been dating for nine years and have been engaged for four.

The two first met at a restaurant, when Shannon came over to Lyles and introduced himself. He was 23 and she was 19, she said.

After they’d dated for a while, Lyles said, they decided they wanted to get married, and Shannon proposed one Christmas Eve.

“He surprised me at his mom’s house in front of the family,” she said. “He said ‘will you?’ and a smile.

“I said ‘yes,’ and a smile.”

Deborah Lyles said she supported her daughter from the beginning.

“(Amber) told me she wanted to get married awhile back,” she said. “I told her to try it. Not everyone works out the first time. But you really have to work at it.”

Amber Lyles added that when she says her vows, the words “till death do us part” would be included.

Lyles said she and Shannon hope to go on a cruise for their honeymoon, but it’s still something they’re discussing.

More than the act of getting married, Lyles said, she’s looking forward to being married.

“(I’ll have) married my friend,” she said.