April 28th is a day that will be printed in my memory as one of the greatest and most memorable days of my life. It was on that evening that Chris, my boyfriend of almost 3 years, asked me to spend the rest of my life with him. I've been asked to tell this story numerous times, so I figured it was worthy of putting on here...I'm generally a horrible storyteller, but I'll do my best. Also, the words I use won't do justice to the actually event, but it's what I have for now :)
Chris led a Bible study on campus during college. It always met in the Sullivan builidng, so he told me that he ws going to have his last one and he really wanted me to be there...of course I wasn't going to miss it because I knew it was really important to him. So...I got dressed in my usual comfy clothes, holey jeans and plain white T with a long scarf and flip flops and headed over to campus. When I got there I walked in and there were rose petals all over the floor that led into the main room. By then, I was pretty sure what was going on... :) So I walked into the main room where the "bible study" was supposed to be. I walked in to find Chris sitting on the stage with his guitar. He asked me to sit in a chair that he had put in front of the stage. There was a table beside the chair with a box of tissues (just incase) and a huge bouquet of daisies (my favorite!). I jokingly told him that he lied to me and that this wasn't the typical bible study...although I wasn't complaining! ;) So I sat down with this huge grin on my face...he has put together a slide show. It ended up being around 90 slides from the first picture we had ever taken together all the way up to pictures of us dancing at Beth's (one of my best friends) wedding three days before. While the slideshow was playing he played 3 songs on his guitar, "Tangled up in you" by Stained..."Steady As We Go" (which is pretty much the best song ever at describing our relationship) by Dave Matthews Band, and "God of this City", which we both absolutely LOVE! So he sang those songs, the slideshow ended...he walked down from the stage to where I was and said "and there's one more thing..." and he dropped down to one knee, told me he loved me very much and asked me to marry him! :) :) :) :) :) of course i gave him a huge hug and a kiss...after which he looked at me and was like...."so....?"...so then i realized that i never technically answered his question! so I said yes as he was still holding my GORGEOUS ring...which he reminded me he bought for me and that yes, i could have it....haha...i just got so caught up in the question and the moment that i forgot about the ring and the answer...after all of the hugs and kisses we packed his stuff up and met my parents and his at Sullivan's downtown....it certainly was an amazing night!!
the ring is amazing...he worked with a jeweler and had it built...the center stone was his great grandmother's and is over 200 years old...special touches and all of his sneaky but special planning made it the most amazing proposal i could have ever dreamed of...the text of this message can't really express how awesome it was, but hopefully it'll give you so sort of an idea...
i'm in love with the most amazing man i've ever met...and one day, i'll get to call him my husband! :)
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