Proposal Stories!!

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I wanna know! Who proposed to whom? Where? When? Reactions? Ring or no ring? 

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I will preface this by saying that a) we decided to get married before we got *engaged* and had loosely been planning our tiny wedding but I had no idea when dh would officially pop the question and b) my jeweler had me discreetly try on some rings when i was in to have a ring fixed, so I inadvertently got to pick out my engagement ring.

The night DH proposed, we had been out to dinner with some of my family, then drinks with friends.. it was such a great night. When we got home, he took the dog out but air pressure jammed the door and he had to kick it in to get back in my ancient Brooklyn apartment. I was in the kitchen getting a glass of water and turned around to a box about 2" in front of my face. DH HEAVILY dropped to one knee on the kitchen floor and popped the box open and asked me to marry him. OF COURSE I said yes! Since you know, it would have been weird since we were already getting married, and then we danced and sang around the apartment to Stevie Wonder - Once in My Life and then Bernadette Peters & Steve Martin - Tonight You Belong to Me; which became our first dance.

Then we passed out. In the morning, sending a picture of the ring on my hand to my mom I accidentally included me wearing my underwear in the photo because I was still in bed.

[kittyriot]

Ours is kinda generic but oh so dorky.

We had been together what felt like forever at that point. Six years. I thought he was afraid to propose but of course my slow and steady had been planning and prepping.

We had booked our first beach vacation, headed to Cuba, arrived at our resort, settled in and went for a walk. Wandered down to "almost" the water. It was dark and I didn't think it was safe to walk on the beach when it was soooooo dark. So as he tried to lead me down the path to the beach, I started walking in the other direction saying I didn't feel safe. He tried to gently pull me where he wanted me to go, I wiggled away, he laughed and said you're ruining my surprise and stuck my hand in his pocket. At which point I was really effing confused. Until I felt the ring box.

I started to do this weird little laugh/cry - he sat me down on a bench and asked me to marry him. He also surprised me with a very large wedding fund. He had been saving for the last two years so we could have the wedding we wanted to throw.

So we used that money to pay for our entire immediate families to go toSt. Lucia with us, then threw a great party for the extended family and friends.

ETA: cause it's too early for coherence.

[haykay13]

I will share my full story with you guys! Everyone I know assumes it is because of my BFP and I don't bother defending myself lol

DH and I started dating in Aug 2008 and decided early on that we were going to get married. We just wanted to finish college first, get "real" jobs etc. So fast forward to August 2013 I've been out of school for a year and getting pretty impatient, I want my pretty ring damnit!! We already planned on a May 2014 wedding, but hadn't started officially planning yet. Our anniversary (August 1) comes and goes and still no ring, I am a little annoyed. DH then goes on a family reunion trip, I couldn't go so I house sit for his family, while house sitting a box from a jeweler comes in the mail! It takes all my self control to not open it and find out if it's what I think it is. I decide not to mention it to him so he can still feel like he is surprising me a little.
He comes home, DS is conceived (oops). I pee on a stick a couple days before our trip to Tampa we had planned for Labor Day weekend. We go on our trip, come home and still no ring, WTH I know you bought it just give it to me! Haha
So the next weekend we are walking around downtown, walk down to the pier and he finally proposes. It was perfect and weird just like us haha there were 2 guys fishing awkwardly close to us and a Jewish dancing festival (??) going on at the shore. So they congratulated us and it was really sweet.
With DS being due in May we decided that wasn't going to work & we could either get married sooner or later, we opted for sooner. We were going to do a courthouse wedding but I guess that would just kill my mom so we had our wedding in December.

ETA turns out he was planning on proposing on our anniversary but the ring took longer to ship than it was supposed to. Then he was planning to on our trip to Tampa, had a spot picked out and everything and realized he forgot the ring when we were like an hour away from home and couldn't think of a good reason to go back because he was panicking lol

[kendy20]

DH and I had been dating for about 5-6 months but had a fling going on prior to becoming "offical" (you know the whole friends with benefits type of thing) for I wanna say 3 months. Anywho, My birthday is in May and DH and I were working at the same place. All of a sudden about a month before my birthday (April 2008) co-workers kept making comments saying I was going to have an amazing birthday and it will be one to remember. So I asked DH what was up and he kept claiming he had no idea what they were talking about. Well, he left his phone in our room next to the computer, which I was on and his dad texted him. The text said "engagement coming up soon huh?" I freaked and got nervous but didn't want to ruin anything, so I kept my mouth shut. The curious part of me couldn't help but snoop around our room.....and I found the Kay Jewleres receipt! .

Fast forward a few weeks and DH and I had planned a beach date, I ended up having to stay at work to cover someone's shift so I figured the beach was a no go since it was getting dark and windy. DH picked me up with flowers and said we were still going to the beach, I really didn't want to but he insisted. About half way to the beach it hit me that this was the moment! Sad part is he tried so hard to get a fire going but the wind kept blowing it out, we probably moved to 2-3 different spots on the beach to get a fire. He started saying all those romantic things guys say prior to proposing, but I didn't hear any of it! I was too worried about not acting surprised since I knew what was going on. Well.....he popped the question and pulled out the ring, asked if I would marry him. My response......"what's that for?" (atrb_partsz)

I felt so bad, I recovered and acted dumb but it's always something funny for us to look back on. I didn't tell him until a few years later that I knew about the whole thing :-)

edit: forgot to add that he proposed a month before my bday since he thought someone at work would ruin the surprise, only to later find out I already knew :-)

[haykay13]

Matching shirts & sunglasses because that's necessary when you're getting engaged lol

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DH and I had lived together for a year is so, dating for around 5 years or so. We had been fighting that day. When he came home from work that evening he was acting very strange. I kept asking him what his deal was. Finally he came up to me with a shitty grin on his face and got down on one knee. I don't even remember what he said exactly, but I said YES! I had given him the choice of two ring types: solitaire princess cut or three smaller princess cut. He picked the three stones and it was a great choice! I really need to get it cleaned and dipped but here's my AW!

[mary97]

DH and I knew we were going to get married very early in our dating. He "proposed" a few times before the real thing, one time drunk with a ritz cracker, a lug nut another time and even one of my own rings. So when he finally did it for real and I even knew it was coming at some point that weekend, with a ring I helped pick out, I just stood there looking at the ring thinking "omg it's for real this time" and don't remember a word he said to me.

I think I thought he was going to do a fake out and pick another weekend.

[athn64]

DH and I have known each other since preschool. We started dating after I graduated from college. 3 weeks in he told me he loved me, 6 weeks he said he wanted to marry me. I gave him a 6 month guideline, and told him he couldn't propose until after that. He's pretty bad at dates apparently, because 4.5 months in, at Thanksgiving with his Dad's family, two states away from home, he stands up and says, "So I know you've noticed by now that athn is kind of shy, and I'm about to embarrass the crap out of her" Then he got down on one knee.

He says I didn't answer for like 1 minute, it was more like 15 seconds because I was shocked. But I did say yes. And now here we are.

[kittyriot]

Jan 15, 2015 12:43:56 GMT -5 @featheredarrow said:

DH and I had lived together for a year is so, dating for around 5 years or so. We had been fighting that day. When he came home from work that evening he was acting very strange. I kept asking him what his deal was. Finally he came up to me with a shitty grin on his face and got down on one knee. I don't even remember what he said exactly, but I said YES! I had given him the choice of two ring types: solitaire princess cut or three smaller princess cut. He picked the three stones and it was a great choice! I really need to get it cleaned and dipped but here's my AW!



Seriously, could we be more alike?! We name our daughters the same name, our daughters pretty much have the same wardrobe and now we basically have the exact same engagement ring. 

[comicSans]

It was a Friday night and we were both working from our respective homes because of inclement weather. He was living about a mile from me and we decided after our workdays ended to go to dinner at the restaurant where we had our first date. The restaurant was also within a mile radius, so convenient and I didn't think much of it. We had agreed holiday and anniversary proposals were dumb - it was a couple weeks after the anniversary of our first date and about a week before the anniversary of when we decided to officially be a couple.

We were both hungry at the end of the day so we decided we'd go right around 5 - DH ended up being late and seemed to feel really bad about it, which I thought was kind of weird. We reminisced about the year over dinner, and decided to go to a movie. The movie didn't start until 9 or so, so we had time to kill. We got coffee, then walked around a TJ maxx near the theatre. By the jewelry counter I made some comment about picking out a cheap ring so he could propose right there. I seriously had no idea he was intending to propose that night. We had complimentary movie tickets because the sound had gone out at a different movie a couple months before, and they said "not for special engagements." So of course at the theater I said, well I guess it's good we're not getting engaged then.

After the movie it was about midnight. I assumed he'd drop me off at home, but he didn't get in the lane to make the turn to my apartment. I assumed he was just not paying attention and would take the next turn - nope. I finally asked where he was taking me and he just said to his place. Ummm ok. Still no clue and I'm usually very suspicious about these things. At his apartment he had me wait in the hall for a second while he turned the light on. I think I was just in shock or something and was just not processing what was happening. Inside he'd laid out rose petals (why he was late). He also handed me flowers. The rose petals said "Marry me?" But suddenly clueless me didn't even read them and just said, "what's this?" Then he took a knee and presented the ring and I finally figured out what was going on and managed to say yes.

He had been planning to propose the next day, but I ruined that by making plans with friends.

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DH and I met the first day I moved to NYC in the elevator of our apartment building. A few years later we were in the area. He actually broke into the place so that we could ride the elevator again. It was there that he got down on one knee and proposed.

[bazingaa]

DH proposed when we were on vacation in Seattle. Didn't get down on one knee and didn't have a diamond ring, but it was perfect for us. He proposed with a birthstone ring of the month we met. I had always told him I wanted to pick out my own ring. I call the birthstone ring my proposal ring and then the diamond one my engagement ring.

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Jan 15, 2015 14:10:48 GMT -5 kittyriot said:

Jan 15, 2015 12:43:56 GMT -5 @featheredarrow said:

DH and I had lived together for a year is so, dating for around 5 years or so. We had been fighting that day. When he came home from work that evening he was acting very strange. I kept asking him what his deal was. Finally he came up to me with a shitty grin on his face and got down on one knee. I don't even remember what he said exactly, but I said YES! I had given him the choice of two ring types: solitaire princess cut or three smaller princess cut. He picked the three stones and it was a great choice! I really need to get it cleaned and dipped but here's my AW!



Seriously, could we be more alike?! We name our daughters the same name, our daughters pretty much have the same wardrobe and now we basically have the exact same engagement ring. 

Pic please...

[kittyriot]

I am having a tough time getting a good shot in my office but this is my set.

[kittyriot]

Yowzsers my irish skin is wrinkly.

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After being together for a year (a wonderful year!), we planned a trip up to Leavenworth (a beautiful mountain town in Washington State).
We had gone the year before for the Christmas Lighting - it's such a magical place during the holidays.
I had set up the hotel this time around - we staying in an old chapel converted into a room - it was absolutely beautiful.
On our way up there it snowed a bunch so the town was even more beautiful than before. I had an idea that he was thinking of proposing, but wasn't sure when - my friends had some wagers going on as to when he would do it and my best friend EVER said he would do it on this trip.

Anyways, we walked around town and bought some family presents for Christmas. If he was going to propose I fully expected it to happen that evening at dinner or while walking around at night (it gets very quiet there at night). We went back to the room to warm up and rest before dinner. I was watching TV - he was acting weird while getting "ready", but I didn't think much of it. He then came and sat next to me and started talking about how the past year has been so wonderful and he wants to have that for the rest of his life. As soon as I knew what he was doing I jumped to my knees and sat there stunned... I dont' remember what he said, but remember he stopped talking and I just yelled "yes!".

He told me later that he decided months before to propose in leavenworth because that's where he first truly fell in love with me (we had only been together for 3 months at that point).

Life with him is far beyond anything I could've imagined before. As a child I believed in soulmates, but as I grew older I grew cynical and figured that was just in stories. My husband has made me a believer again. I truly feel we were brought together by God and he is my other half.

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Jan 15, 2015 15:34:33 GMT -5 kittyriot said:

Yowzsers my irish skin is wrinkly.

I was trying to take a picture of my ring as well and abandoned ship due to pale wrinkly syndrome haha. 

[jsquaree]

DH proposed years ago, and we just kind of stayed engaged forever. We're lazy.
We had been long distance for the majority of our relationship, and just went back and forth visiting each other. We had a trip planned for me to fly out to Oregon in August 2008. He was going to meet me in Portland, and we would road trip back down to Klamath Falls. The trip wound up being a bit of a disaster. While we were in Portland, it wound up being the hottest week of the year--100°+ most of the time. The day we tried going to the zoo, we were there for maybe 30 minutes before going back to the hotel. And if course, DH accidentally turned the heat ALL THE WAY UP in the room so it was actually hotter in there than it was outside.
From there, we were supposed to go to Umpqua Falls. We stopped in Roseburg for a few days, and DH wound up getting really sick, so we decided to just go home. While packing up the car, I found a book I had left at his place the last time I was out and there was a really sweet letter he had written to me as a page mark. I went back into the room and gave him a kiss and he started acting really weird. He kept asking what I found, so I told him, and he didn't believe me. This should have been a big hint, but I'm probably the least intuitive person ever.
On the drive down, he pulls off at some random Podunk one horse town, Riddle, and starts driving around aimlessly. He pulls onto back roads, logging roads, dead ends, and keeps turning around. After an hour of driving around this town that was literally 6 square blocks, I ask him what the hell he's doing. "Looking for something," is all he'll tell me.
We start driving down some county road into the woods and he pulls off onto the side of the road and tells me to get out of the car.
I'm actually pissed at this point and cussing because it's about 102° and humid and he wants to go trudging through the woods and I'm in a dress and foam flip-flops. We start hiking trough the brush that's filled with thorn bushes and muck. Literally fuming right now, I'm all scratched up and filthy. After maybe 50 yards, we wind up at a rocky bank at a river. Apparently this is what he'd been looking for this entire time, he said he saw it off the highway. It actually was really beautiful. I go and wash my feet off in the river, and when I turn around, he's down on one knee and all I see is this huge gleam in front of him--the sun was so bright I couldn't even see the ring but I knew exactly what was happening. I have no idea what he said, I was taken so off guard I couldn't hear him. It was perfect.
Well didn't I just feel life the biggest ass for complaining and getting so upset. Apparently he wanted to do it at the falls, but I'm glad he didn't.
I'd take a picture of my ring but it still doesn't fit after having LO, so I need to get it resized.

[yvanehtnioj]

We had been together almost 2 years. It wasn't anything elaborate. We decided to spend the weekend at his family's vacation/second house in the woods and it was just the two of us. After a delicious dinner I was puttering around the kitchen cleaning up and he kept being very lovey. Then I turned around and he was down on one knee. I couldn't figure out why, thought his knee had given out! Then he asked me to marry him.

[birdhut]

The day he proposed was my last day as a para before student teaching so I was really sad leaving my work friends and I was about to go to New Zealand to student teach in a couple weeks. I was sad he hadn't asked yet because we lived 2 hours away and I wasn't sure what the job situation would be if I was offered one where I lived. It would be another year of living apart. Anyway it was exactly a month before valentines day so when he said he wanted to celebrate that since id be out of the country I didn't think anything else of it. When I got to my apartment he was already there making dinner for us. He had asked my roommate for her key. I still didn't think anything else of it. We both got each other gifts so I opened my last one and it was a wedding planner.. Well then there was a delay (I later found out the ring got stuck when he went to get it). So during the delay all I could think was seriously he gets me a wedding planner and then doesn't ask. He finally got the box out and asked

[ns1]

DH and I had been together for about 4 years. It was my birthday (New Year's Eve) and DH said when he got home from work he wanted to take me out. That morning I woke up with a terrible sore throat. I went to the walk-in and was diagnosed with strep. I was determined to go out (I kind of was expecting / hoping for a proposal around the holidays, and this was the last day of it, and I was a little miffed I hadn't gotten a proposal yet). I spent the day lying on the couch resting so I could have energy to go out. Right before DH walked in the door I actually got sick.

DH insisted we could not go out, and I insisted we had to. I ended up crying and getting mad, and he got mad too. It was my birthday, I was sick, I wanted to go out, I wanted a proposal, he had all these plans, they were ruined! So, after a pretty decent fight. He pulls the ring out all huffy. Greaaaat. Then we get through it, and he does a real sappy proposal with me lying sick on the couch.

Worst proposal ever! Haha! Oh, and let me add. He didn't get my ring (his mom talked him into letting me pick out my own, thanks MIL!). He proposed with earrings with my birthstone (he got me a ring and bracelet with my birthstone previously, so this was to finish the set)...only problem, I never wear earrings - the holes closed up from when I had them pierced, and he knew this!!

So, he returned the earrings, and I picked out my ring. Come to find out, he did ask my dad (awww, how sweet). He also had planned for us to go to this movie place to see a movie where they serve food and alcohol coughcoughtackycough. So, I guess I'm happy that it ended up the way it did, somehow...

[meggypoo1]

DH and I were together for about a year and a half before he proposed. We talked about it for a while months before it happened. I figured he would do it within the next year. Well I love Christmas time so he decided that he was going to propose on Christmas Eve! We were living in Boston at the time and one of my favorite things to do during Christmas time was walk around Boston looking at all the lights and Christmas Trees! I had to work Christmas Eve but got out at noon! He asked if I wanted to go walking around looking at the lights, trees and go ice skating at a pond in my favorite park! I said sure but I wanted to open our stockings first (we fill each other stockings each year)! He didn't want to because he got me my favorite champagne for us to enjoy when we got home after he proposed! I insisted and we ended up opening them! I didn't think anything of getting the champagne so it worked out for him! So we headed into the city! As we were walking around I was getting cold and started not to feel well so after lunch and looking at one tree and few lights I was like lets go home I'm cold and not feeling well. He was like no let's go to one more park and then go home. I kept saying no now! So he gave me his hat so I would stop saying I was cold! So we walked over to my favorite park and walked through it and over to the tree (and skipped ice skating). He wrapped his arms around me and I said something about the tree being beautiful and how it's so great because it's just starting to get dark! He the said something about me being beautiful and our life being beautiful and then pulled out the ring and got down on one knee and said something about making his life beautiful forever and asked me to marry him! I of course said yes!! It started to snow as soon as he started talking too! It was perfect!

Random thing that happened was there was a guy watching us and took pictures of us. He came over after we had our moment and said he worked for the Boston Globe (he showed us a badge of some sort) and asked if he could run a little story about us in the next edition! We thought it was so cool and said of course! We never did find the story!

I told my mom that night and all she said was "oh." I was so disappointed but when I told my sister she was so excited! She actually cooked dinner that year and I made the mistake of telling her while she was pulling the turkey out of the oven! She nearly dropped in excitement! I never did find out why my mom just oh.

Here is my ring! He didn't want me to just have diamonds because he says that's too original!

[Susan0utLoud]

Jan 15, 2015 14:43:48 GMT -5 bazingaa said:

DH proposed when we were on vacation in Seattle. Didn't get down on one knee and didn't have a diamond ring, but it was perfect for us. He proposed with a birthstone ring of the month we met. I had always told him I wanted to pick out my own ring. I call the birthstone ring my proposal ring and then the diamond one my engagement ring.

Seattle!! Woot woot!! Did he propose at the stereotypical Seattle place? Like the Space Needle or the Market?

[ho11yday]

Was dealing with a crazy fucking cunt of a roommate and I was having a really hard time. I went up to see DH (obviously before DH was my DH) and was crying about the whole thing. We were laying in bed, with me crying about the mess, when DH rolled off the bed and on two knees asked me to marry him. A year later we were married.

I don't wear my engagement ring because the stone is soft and I have chipped it; so I only wear it occasionally. But it is a peridot (my birthstone!) with adjacent diamonds.

[becole]

You mean your DHs didn't take you to Tiffanys and let you pick out what you wanted like in Sweet Home Alabama???

[becole]

My DH was trying to find a park in the new area we were going to live in (first apt. Together). He couldn't find it so eventually just pulled over on the side of the road and proposed in the middle of nowhere. It was kinda spontaneous. I didn't care, this was way more "me" than at a restaurant or in public- I can be shy of that kinda attention.

[britab]

I was working as a camp counselor and DH wasn't there. One night a comedy group was performing and they were looking for leaders for their skit. Well, I was chosen and DH came out in a tux and proposed. There were about 300 screaming and excited high schoolers. 

I was shocked. We had talked about getting engaged that summer (it was the summer after our junior year in college), but DH is the biggest procrastinator, so I figured he hadn't done any planning. We have a great video of it! That was July of 2008; we had been dating for 2 years but were so young, 21. We got married the next summer and five summers after that had DD.

[yogasailmomma]

We weren't even really dating because I lived in ny and he was living in Cali. He came back home to visit for a couple weeks and during this time was trying to convince me to move out with him. Told him I wouldn't go unless we were serious and getting married someday. And he said lets get married then and I said it doesn't just work like that! Then we were both like, well why the hell not?! Haha. We decided we were going to get married and I was moving to Cali! My friends and family all thought I was nuts! This all happened in July. I spent the fall wrapping things up, moving out of my apt and gearing up for a huge change!

While I was out here visiting in October he took me for a hike. In typical fashion it wound up being twice as long as it should have been and we hiked in 11 miles! That night we set up camp and went to sleep at 7. I was so tired and cranky. The next morning we packed up, had freeze dried breakfast food and as we were sitting down re stuffing our packs, he kneeled down across the campsite from me. He asked me to come over to where he was standing to which I replied, "I sat down first, you come over here" I am a princess and had no clue what he was doing! He then comes over to me, gets down on his knee again and proposes with a ring! I was so shocked. Even though we had already told everyone that we were getting married he wanted us to have an "old fashioned" proposal story to tell our kids he's pretty sweet!

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yogasailmomma I love that

Here's my long story, now that I'm inspired!

DH and I had a similar progression.. we had dated successfully years prior but he was moving so I broke things off in a fit of recently unemployed, where is my life going depression. He tried to stay in touch but I shut him down.. until 3 years later when I was updating my LinkedIn I was suggested him as a contact. I searched my inbox for any emails that I may not have deleted and there was ONE.. that he had written me 3 years prior, with a picture of a bottle of wine from a winery with my same last name. Needless to say, I had never responded. So, I wrote back and he responded 15 minutes later! We spent the year with hundreds of emails, phone calls and texts and he came to see me in NY a couple of times. The second time he visited, he took me on a proper date, walked me home and kissed me.. I stopped him cold because, as I said incredulously, "YOU LIVE IN ATLANTA!".. the next day he apologized, back pedaled and said he wasn't looking for anything serious. I told him that was the thing.. I was. I wanted something serious and no more flings.

He faded away for about a month after that, but then, when I saw he was in SF at the same time as me, I gave him a shout and he tried to convince me to stay longer than my work trip so that I could road trip with him down the coast, even offering to pay my way (!!). I had to pass w/ a job and dog to get home to, but as the fall progressed I just kept thinking. At one point I asked if he wanted to drive from NY to MT and back with me and the dog as we trekked out to visit my folks for the holidays, but alas, he hates driving and offered only to fly into MT and drive back with me. I was like a deer in headlights.. I knew what my parents would think if he did that, so I just laughed it off and let it slip away.

2 1/2 weeks and nearly 5000 miles of driving later, I was talking with my therapist on New Years Eve about all that I had thought about during the drive.. and how the one person who was interested in me, who I had feelings for, who was grounded and had goals... was in Atlanta. And how could that be serious if he lives there?

And when my NYE alcohol fueled hangover arrived with bells the following morning, I reached out to him. We talked all day, and continued the chatter through the week.. until I told him I wanted to come to visit him.. to see. But once I booked my trip our talks intensified about us and the feelings for one another that we'd both be keeping mostly quiet. We decided to jump in with both feet. We'd go one month at a time.. and we did. He ended up visiting me 3 weeks later because he couldn't wait for my trip. And we pretty much progressed like that.. ever 2-3 weeks he was in NY or I was down there.. he flew to MT and met my parents, I met his parents in Tennessee.. and we knew what we wanted and we went for it.

I told my friends and family the plan.. and the plan became for me to move to Atlanta in August and that we would get married. We actually started to consider eloping, but I always wanted a wedding and I wanted my family around. My friends were shocked, skeptical.. and a little angry. But DH spent a lot of time getting to know them and now they are his friends too. In May he proposed after meeting and spending an amazing dinner with my aunt and uncle in NY, and then out with friends after (my first story in this thread) and then in August I moved and I got KU and we had our sweet wedding in Sept, closed on our house Nov 1 and here we are! Weeeeee!

When you know, you know!