August 2010 Weddings
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Engagement stories
We're in our wedding month ladies. Some of us have been around since we were August 2010 knotties, some have joined us later on down the way. I stumbled upon this blog entery (won't lie made me cry a little bit) http://mikaelaruthblog.com/2011/06/will-you-marry-me/
So close to our 1 year mark, let's share our engagement stories.
Re: Engagement stories
DH and I had dated from May 2004- August 2005. We broke up because I got bored and he was super smothering. My parents were heartbroken, they totally loved him.
We got back together January 30th of 2007, because after a string of jerks, and DH having calmed down a bit and not being so smother-y I realized that maybe he was my dream guy after all.
Three days after being back together we both knew we were going to get married. We were literally talking out wedding plans on our second date. On that day we agreed, we would be dating for one year before we got engaged (his idea) and engaged one year before getting married (my idea).
So fast forward a year later. We had hit the one year mark, and we had already agreed on August 14th as the date so I knew sometime between January 30th and August 14th I was getting the ring. DH and I talked about it, I would tease him that he better start saving etc. DH agreed back when we got back together that he was going to take my mom to pick out the ring because she used to work at a jewelry store and knew what to look for, and we have similar taste in diamonds.
So on a cold drizzly Wednesday in March (OMG, I forgot the date, don't tell DH), I got home from work and there were candles all around the living room of our apartment. DH had cooked dinner and there was wine. I pretty much knew what was going on, but didn't want to believe it. DH had me sit down and he brought me dinner. I was eating a piece of broccoli when I swear he dove from the kitchen to the floor in front of me. He shoved the ring in my face, and I can't even remember what he said, but I gasped and choked on the broccoli. After clearing the broccoli out of my airway I said yes, I cried a little bit.
Come to find out, my mom and DH had gone to the mall the Saturday before to pick out the ring. He told me he was going to the mall for a Warhammer tournament. I was supposed to work that day but had an uber sinus headache and didn't go in. Thus ruining his plans for proposing that night. We always go to my parents Sundays and it KILLED my mom not to say anything. There were also stories of how petrified DH was to ask my dad to marry my. Even though they love him...
THE END
That blog engagement was amazing! Almost seemed like it was from the movies...so romantic! :-)
DH and I met during our first year of teaching in August 2006. DH can come across as kind of a know it all and a bit arrogant...so when my first impression of him was that he was an arrogant, smart a$$. While, I on the other hand, tend to be very shy in situations where I know no one and/or don't know what to expect (which both were happening when during Teacher work week). So DH's first impressions of me was that I was a stuck up b!tch. (It was pretty funny to find this out when we discovered this fact out a couple months into dating.)
It wasn't until October 2006 at the Fall Social, that we actually got to know one another better and not just judge each other based on first impressions. :-) The next day, DH emailed me asking me if I'd like to go out for dinner and a movie. We went on 3 amazing dates before actually deciding to be a couple. We dated for 3 years, and knew about 1 & 1/2 years in that we were going to get married.
Fastforward to June 12, 2009...the last day of school...only one of the most exciting days for both students and teachers. ;-) I was packing up my room and my students and the students from the classroom across the hall were watching a movie. A student from my DH's class comes into my room and asks if we would like to come to his room to watch a movie. I politely tell her to tell him that we're already watching a movie with another class, but if they would like to come to my room instead that they could. The student gives me a panicked look and says "Mr. Golden says it's not negotiable." I laugh tell her sorry and tell her to go back to class. After she leaves, I go into the hallway to tell the teacher across the hall what had just happened and to discuss how peculiar it was. Just then one of the secretaries comes over the loud speaker paging me to Mr. Golden's room. Again...very peculiar but I didn't know what to make of it. I'm still standing in my doorway...b/c how am I going to leave my room with students in it...when a 5th grade teacher comes jogging down the hallway to tell me that I have to go to his room now and that she'll stay with my class. OOOOK...more confusion. I go up the hallway and around the corner to his room. The door is closed and the windows are have been covered, so I knock on the door. DH's aide opens the door and I see his students standing a semi-circle around the back of the room and DH is standing nervously at the front of the room next to an empty chair. He tells me that his students made have made something and they want to show me and he guides me to the seat at the front of the room. I sit and look at the students who are each holding a large piece of construction paper. DH tells them to show their work and they all turn up their papers. Each student has a different letter on their paper that they've decorated how they wanted too. It takes me a minute to realize that the letters spell "Will you marry Mr. Golden?" and my hands fly up to my mouth and I look over to my DH and he's on one knee in front me saying "So will you?" I was so stunned that I all I could do was shake my head yes. He put the ring on my shaking hand and it wasn't until I was standing and hugging him that I was able to speak again and actually say "Yes".
And the rest is history. :-)
So Fun! You have me sitting here crying! (LOL Pregnancy hormones)
Our story is not romantic at all...
DH was visiting his family in PA and I flew in to meet them. His mom had said we couldn't share a room until we were engaged so DH proposed at the airport as soon as I walked past security so we could go back to his house and share a room.
In all fairness, he had planned to propose that trip just in a more romantic location.
I will say that airport will always hold a special place in my heart.
Me and DH starting dating when I was 15 and he was 17. Our first date was to a little local amusement park, called Oaks Park.
Fast forward 5 years, on our 5 year dating anniversary DH took me back to Oaks Park to go roller skating. During the couples only skate DH pulled me out into the middle of the rink, where we fell, cause I'm utterly uncordinated. After laughing and attemping to stand up in a skirt and roller skates. DH got down on one knee and tell me he loves me and asks if I'll marry him.
After that we went to a super nice French resturant to celebrate.
Pictures taken before proposal:On December 23rd (my birthday), we, along with my parents, sister, and her boyfriend, all went out to eat at my favorite fancy-schmancy restaurant. All the trees and fountains outside the restaruant in the square were lit up and it was so pretty. Mom wanted pictures. DH and I posed for some shots and I began to walk away to take the camera from Mom. DH called out for one more picture. I posed, but DH dropped to his knee and said simply "I love you. Will you marry me?" Hard bawling ensued. I never answered until my dad jokingly asked whether I said yes.
Blurry, but Mom just kept frantically taking pictures:
Back home:
Do the creep.
Such great stories! I included our story on our wedding website, so rather than take up the space here, please check it out! It wasn't what DH had planned, but it was incredible nonetheless!
www.mywedding.com/jodieandbryce
Love this thread
DH and I planned our aniversary at my friend's summer house in Poconos. I asked him if it was OK to invite my parents to join us because it's only a weekend. He said it was OK and all of us packed in the cars, with our dogs and went to Poconos. The first night we got to the house, Dh asks if I want to drive to the car wash with him. On the way there he says: let's drive around and see what's here. And I looked at him like he was crazy because it was already late, and we could have gotten lost. The next day we went to the waterfalls in the Delaware River Park and DH was super irritated that there were so many peple everywhere. He kept complaining and it was getting super annoying so I just told him we should go home. The next day it was pouring and my parents suddenly took the dogs out as soon as it slowed down. And I was so happy that they left, I started pulling DH's arm to go to the bedroom, because parents weren't there... you know
So I lay down on the bed and DH sits on the endge, pulls up his bag and takes something out. His hands closed around it, he starts saying that he was looking for the perfect moment, but none came by and he just wanted to tell me how much I mean to him, and this is our second anniversary... and I think: what is he doing, parents will be back with the dogs in a moment. So I tell him: babe, this is amazing, but my parents will beback in a moment, we have the house to ourselves. and he says: Will you stop trying to have sex with me and let me propose? I am trying to ask you if you will marry me!
I was so shocked. I thought the little thing in his hands was some gift he got me for our anniversary. I started crying and it was just so amazing.
Thank you for making me remember that day again. It was perfect
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Holy cow! That guy put a lot of work into his proposal! Not that it's a bad thing, but that seems like something right out of the movies.
We were engaged on March 13, 2008, which was an unusually cold night for March. We went out for Mexican, so nothing fancy at all, but I really wanted a margarita. He tried to get me to go to somewhere fancier, but I wasn't having it. We got a bottle of wine after dinner, but DH insisted that before we go back to my house to drink it, we needed to go on a walk. It was 31 degrees outside. I did NOT want to go on a walk. But he insisted and started pouting about it, so, bundled up in a million layers, I agreed. He couldn't just walk around the lake by my house, which is what I wanted to do because if it got too cold I could make a run for the house; he wanted to go to the park we went to on our first date.
At this point, I knew something was up; I wasn't sure what, but I knew something was fishy. So we drove the 5 miles to the park and walked around the trails in the dark. When we reached this big fountain, he got down on one knee, and said, "I've loved you since the day I met you. Will you--" And I started jumping up and down screaming, "Yes!!" before he could even finish. I don't have any pictures, which makes me kind of sad, because there wasn't anybody around to take on. We went back to my house afterwards and had a bottle of wine with my parents to celebrate.
Ha, mine is not interesting at all. We had been dating for two years and living together for over a year. We had talked so much about getting married - we knew we would one day.
So we were at home. It was September 28, 2009. Two days before our second anniversary. We were just sitting in our living room watching a rerun of The Office. In the episode we were watching, everyone was at a Diwali celebration and Michael was talking to Kelly's parents about their 30 year marriage. And Darren just kind of slid off the couch and onto one knee.
The funny thing about it was, we had been talking so much about getting engaged recently that we had purchased an engagement ring online just a couple days before that. We kept the news mostly to ourselves for about a week until the ring arrived.
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