The Proposal

What was your proposal like? Was it a surprise?


a. We had talked about getting married and I had told him what I liked in rings so I knew it was coming. I had pretty much figured out that he had bought the ring over Spring Break and from then on was constantly analyzing every situation for “proposal potential”. I had told him he had to ask my dad first, and knew that that hadn’t happened so until it did he wasn’t allowed to propose. By the time we’d made it to the weekend of my birthday I was sooo hoping he would ask my dad when we went home, and then that he would ask me. I had no idea that he asked my dad that night while I was out on a date with another man (Nick actually dropped me off for a Birthday date with Earl-my birthday buddy). He had plans to go see a movie with my brother, but instead went to the church, found my dad and asked him. My dad only asked Nick 2 questions. Do you love God? and Have you been baptized?... my dad says that’s all that matters.


b. When I got home from my date, I expected Nick to be gone to the movies, but my dad told me he was downstairs working on homework and that he had come to talk to him at the church. (he probably shouldn’t have told me that… but I knew it had to have happened that night at some point if Nick was going to propose on my birthday – which I soooo hoped he would).


c. We had decided that Nick was going to work on homework and then we would go for a walk at Midnight. So close to midnight I IM’d him (because he was in the basement) and asked if we were still planning on going for a walk….. he said Heck Yes. I got sooo excited at that moment. So about 12:02 we said goodnight to my dad and went for a walk. We took a Frisbee, and played a little of that, we played on the kids jungle gyms. I went down a very wet slide, we climbed a short plastic rock climbing wall, we held hands, he wished me a happy birthday and kissed me. We ended up in the parking lot of a church because there was more light there, and we played Frisbee there. I threw the Frisbee and it didn’t go anywhere near him, so we both ran to get it. He got there first and I tackled him. In that moment I didn’t realize he was about to propose, but he put me in front of him, while on one knee he asked me if I would marry him. I said yes of course. I wanted to whisper it in his ear –like we whisper I love you in each others’ ears – because I thought that would be unique – but I just couldn’t wait to get there to say yes. So I just said it!


d. He had the ring in the little purple box, and I was struggling between looking into his gorgeous eyes and stealing a look at the ring. He put it on my finger. The whole moment seemed so real and so wonderful. I wouldn’t have traded it for the world.


e. We took the longest time to walk the few minutes home than we ever will again. We stopped to talk along the way; I sat on an air conditioning box for a while as we talked. We paused to share a kiss or two. I don’t even remember what we talked about the whole night to be honest – I’m sure it was all very romantic… all I knew was I was looking at the man I was going to marry.
f. PS. I got goose bumps all over while writing this and recalling it all!!!