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Sky Greenwalt Engagement Story

2/8/2017

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This may be a mushy love story, but I promise it's been one crazy ride! So let's start from the beginning... We had mutual friends at the beginning of high school so even though our towns were five minutes apart and our schools were rivals we always ended up hanging out on weekends doing teenager stuff. We never got to far from each others radar, nor did we hit it off right away. I thought he was a gentle teddy bear, my knight in shining armor, but we just stayed distant friends until after high school. We still ran into each other often, but never had a moment to really make a connection. A year out of high school I found myself in a crazy, horrifying life changing moment, but this time Jason did turn in to the knight who saved my life. I was confronted with a man and a gun.... but luckily Jason manged to show up in my life again at exactly the right moment. Small town or not he was the one who kept the trigger from being pulled and here we are over 6 years later. After that night we stayed in close contact and started spending time together. That quickly led to holding hands, a few dates, and our first kiss. After one date I found a note he had wrote explaining how much he adored me and his feelings for me. Jason is extremely shy and I thought this was about the sweetest thing anyone could do. He never pushed and we slowly made our way to relationship status. We started dating January 26, 2011. In the fall of that year we talked about moving in together. Jason showed up with an Australian Shepard and after that I had to move in for our puppy child's sake! We spent the next four years in and out of rental houses, working on college, trying to find adult jobs and get on the right track for life. We ended up with a roommate at one point who ended up being a criminal and we had to work with the FBI and got a trip to Alaska to testify in a federal case. We also spent time living in a barn (with heat) but in Michigan during the winter so I could be closer to school. We were young, crazy and in love, but that sure brought some fun into our lives. In 2014 a big farm house opened up to rent. The house is actually the house I grew up boarding & riding horses in. So the meaning of having it hit my heart hard. Jason help me fight to pull the money together and finally have a forever home of our own by the age of 24. Now that we had a beautiful home, stable jobs, and a tiny little family with a fur child; we decided we needed a new car. So we bought a Jeep. In January of '16 we celebrated 5 years together. By August we had the Jeep. We decided since we have lived in Michigan our whole lives and have barely seen it we planned on a 3 day weekend trip up north. With the Jeep loaded, living out of backpacks & a tent, and dog in tow we headed north. We started out taking a fall cruise route. The route ran along the coast of Lake Michigan and it was beautiful. We continued north and decided lets try out the extremely popular M-119 Tunnel of Trees. We drove through and I haven't seen so many jaw dropping views. Over Lake Michigan; high up off cliffs or right on the white sandy beaches. This drive is phenomenal. It took us all day to get to Mackinaw City we wanted to set up our camp in the daylight, but that never works. We arrived to our campsite at 10 pm and enjoyed a fire and sleeping only 25 feet away from the crashing waves of the lake. Temperatures dropped to 45 degrees that night with wind speeds 35 to 45 mph. I thought our tent was going to fly away, but Jason and our pup snuggled up and kept me safe. The next morning we wanted to cross the bridge and visit the U.P., but the wind was still blowing and I couldn't muster up the courage to drive across it. So Jason said "lets go back down the Tunnel of Trees and find some seasonal roads or two tracks and play in the Jeep. We drove back 1 hour to Harbor Springs, Mi stopped had a few drinks, and a bite to eat. We jumped back in the Jeep and started back to camp. We stopped along the Tunnel of Trees at a pull off to grab a few pictures. I jumped out quickly and raced to the edge of the cliff over looking trees and the beach where waves were crashing. The sun was shining, but big fluffy white fall clouds filled the sky. The wind was blowing making big waves the the leafs rustling. Next thing I noticed was Jason standing next to me. You could tell something was up he was so emotional, but he was to fast for me to even think of it. He looked me straight in the eyes, while I had camping/Jeep hair, comfy (not so pretty) clothes on and popped the question. I can barley remember the rest. I just remember him pulling out this beautiful ring his grandmother once wore, asking that ever so memorable question and that ever so lasting kiss. This proposal was spontaneous, ever so intimate and romantic. We enjoyed a few weeks of engagement to ourselves then screamed it to the world. We are planning a destination wedding (somewhere warm, not wintry Michigan) on January 26, 2018. Our seven year anniversary. I do love all love stories, but OURS if my absolute favorite! Forever Jason & Sky 

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Nicole Alevizos Engagement Story

2/8/2017

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Four years ago, I moved to miami after grad school ready to focus on my newjob At Burger King corporation. I thought I would gain a couple pounds from my love of Whoppers but what I gained was the love of my life. On our first date, we bonded over our love of Boston sports, family, and chandler bing. Fast forward through our ups, downs, and endless nights falling asleep to friends episodes. It was a long week of work and to top it off my Friday was spent mopping floors and working the restaurant at a nearby Burger King restaurants. Which was task that is required by the corporation to do annually. That day I chose to work there happened to be the day I got engaged. I opened the door to our apartment smelling like fries and found our living room decked out in flowers, melted candles and my Burger King on one knee. After saying yes and freaking out that I was in a bk uniform polo with champagne, I noticed my phone was missing in action. He let me know my phone would be gone for the rest of the night and it would just be us two going to a surprise dinner. That "surprise" dinner was my family and best friends who had flown from all parts of the US to be there with us. He thought of everything from a set menu of our favorite foods, picture collages, and even a photographer to capture the moment. The rest of the weekend was spent celebrating - it felt like a whopper of an engagement! 

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Kayla Albert Engagement Story

1/28/2017

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In one early text message conversation, before discovering each other’s quirks or taking a deep dive past surface-level conversations, Branon sent me a picture of his extensive movie collection. Spanning three book cases and multiple genres, I gawked at the dedication. He promised I could still borrow his movies even if future dates were no longer on the table. (A claim I still don’t believe.)

So during our first year of dating, we established a ritual. We would pull every blanket, pillow, and comforter together, make the most spectacular bed we could, and spend the day meandering through movie after movie. We even muscled through particularly bad ones just to improve our count for the day. 

On October 14th we had planned for one of our movie days. I promised I would swallow my fear of scary movies to stick with the Halloween theme. He said there was one movie in particular he wanted me to watch. 

After struggling for the first part of the day to turn off my computer and work emails for the day, he asked me to sit by him so we could watch the next movie -- the one he picked. 

The previews started. We talked about which ones looked good and which ones didn’t. He fidgeted. 

Then, the Match.com sign-in screen popped up on the television, my favorite Ron Pope song playing in the background. Our names began typing in the blank sign-in fields. He appeared next, recounting the first time we had met after connecting on Match. How he had called moments before to jokingly tell me he couldn’t make it. Partly to break the ice, partly to make sure I was a real person. How he felt from the very beginning of our relationship. How he knew from the beginning this one was different.

From that point forward, the movie -- nearly half an hour long -- documented all of the seasons we had spent together. The trips we went on, the weddings we attended, how it felt to bring our families together for the first time. He had filmed a segment every few months, over two and a half years, in order to document our history as it was happening. At the end he was on his way to ask my parents for my hand in marriage. 

Then, he got down on one knee and asked. And, in between sobs, I said yes.

About three months into the relationship, I remember him looking at me and saying, “I want you to remember this moment. I can’t tell you why, but just remember it.” 

After the proposal, I asked him about that moment. He explained, “It was one of the times I just knew. People always say they had a feeling early on that their partner was ‘the one.’ I didn’t want you to ever question just how sure of us I was from the very beginning. I wanted you to see that I acted on it. So I started filming.” 

It was a proposal two and a half years in the making. And I can say it was well worth the wait. ​
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Melika Butcher Engagement Story

1/28/2017

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“Thin love ain’t love at all.” My favorite writer of all time, Toni Morrison, wrote this in her novel Beloved in 1987. This is a line that I have contemplated getting tattooed on my arm multiple times after a cocktail or two on West 4th street, and a statement that I know has to be true now that I am preparing for marriage. I met my fiancé, Ian, when I was just 17 and a freshman in college. I wasn’t the typical bright-eyed bushy-tailed, nervous and naïve freshman. I was a 17-year-old young woman dealing with grief and loads of it. My father had passed almost exactly a year before I moved into my dorm room, and I was confused, hurt, completely out of balance and disillusioned. I was broken. But as Leonard Cohen said in his song, “There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” And my heart was shattered, so I suppose it was ready for some light. And that light came. It came in loudly, dancing, smiling and attracting all of the girls on campus. And that light, Ian, asked me to be his girlfriend our freshman year. We continued our relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend for eight years. 

Our relationship had been filled with highs and lows, just like life. And a week before Ian proposed was a week when we were experiencing one of our “it-can’t-get-any-worse-than-this” lows. I was consciously trying to practice patience and gratitude but failing as I was fighting the urge to be jealous and impatient. Two of my best friends were already engaged, and I was seeing our anniversary plowing toward me along with the expectations others had for us to be “engaged already.” I saw that 8-year mark as THE year—the year that I needed to release the “girlfriend” medal and grab that “fiancé” trophy. This had to be the year that people would finally stop asking us “When are you guys getting married?” And let’s just say, that pressure made me a pretty unpleasant partner that week. The day of our anniversary passed, and Ian asked for us to hang out at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden the following day. I reluctantly said yes since it was an uncharacteristically warm day for November in New York City, and this garden also had and still has a special place in my soul. It was one of the final places my father got to see alive. Ian and I walked around the park for about thirty minutes when he said that he needed to use the bathroom—urgently. He seemed jittery so I assumed it was a genuine emergency. I sat down on a nearby bench and swiped up on Instagram waiting, and waiting and waiting. After getting lost in the latest celebrity feud I was reading about, one of Ian’s friends walked up to me with a picture of Ian and me from our freshman year of college. I was completely confused when he said that he found this picture of us laying in the park. He then asked me to walk with him so that he could show me where he found it. As we were walking, he put ear buds in my ears, and I began to listen to a recording of Ian reminiscing on our relationship and what it meant to him. He went on to talk about important elements in the environment and connecting it to our relationship (he studied biology so this was his version of clever and romantic), but I couldn’t focus due to the sobbing that immediately ensued. Ian’s friend and I continued walking through the garden, and at different sections of the garden another one of Ian’s childhood friends was holding a different picture of us from college. With each friendly face and each picture, I cried more. I knew what was happening, but what made it even more special was knowing that the friends he grew up with were present and ushering us into this next stage of our lives. And this was the final place my father saw before he passed. I finally got to the coy pond, and there Ian was, fully changed and on one knee. He asked me to marry him and I said yes before he could even finish.

Once Ian and I got home, I was surprised by all of our family and friends. I’m not one for surprises, but this one got me to my core. I cried, and cried, found my mom and cried some more. We ate, drank, prayed and did toasts. Everyone around the room shared some loving words for me and Ian and the journey we were getting ready to embark upon, and then it was finally my turn to speak. I can’t remember what I said, but I remember looking at Ian, looking at our family and friends, and feeling different. I felt genuinely happy, seriously joyful, perfectly at peace. There wasn’t a shadow of sadness or sensing that something or someone was missing. I felt put back together again. And one of my friends could feel that energy too. She told me that as I was speaking, the sun came out from the clouds and a thick ray of light rested on my shoulders, and she knew that my dad was there. I guess the cracks in my heart were finally filled with the light that was let in that day.

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Brittney Smith Engagement Story

1/11/2017

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My fiancé planned a whole day scavenger hunt leading me to some of our favorite spots in San Diego. He arranged with my coworkers to get me the day off work, but had them set up a fake meeting the morning of the engagement. I showed up to work, and received my first clue. He had our friends and family meet me at every stop with a card and flowers. Finally, the last clue led me to him, where he was standing on a cliff in La Jolla Cove! After the long day, he wasted no time, got down on one knee and asked me to spend the rest of my life with him. Of course, I said yes!

See more: http://howheasked.com/brittney-and-brent/

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Katrina Sagun Engagement Story

1/11/2017

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My fiancee and I have been together for a little over 11 years so we've always know that we'd get engaged and get married. Nate always joked that I wouldn't see the proposal coming and I would just brush it off because he was the worst secret/surprise keeper ever. We moved from New York City to San Diego in the fall of 2014 and had planned on a return trip the next spring for my grandmother's 80th birthday party. I was super excited to see my entire family come together as it's been years since we were all under the same roof! Needless to say we were missing all of family and friends. I've never been a good flyer and always had trouble falling asleep on flights so I was hoping that Nate would be up and keep me company. He was awake, but spent the entire flight reading a book and completely ignoring me. Nate also chose to keep an empty seat between us (in retrospect, he was probably super nervous and didn't know how to act so of course he acted the weirdest way he could). I recorded my boredom on Snapchat. All 6 hours of it. When we landed at JFK International, Nate mentioned that his cousin and my best friend would be picking us up since his parents couldn't get out of work early. I thought, "fine, it's Wednesday, that's totally understandable." They met us at the baggage claim area with a 'Welcome Home' sign a dozen of our favorite Dunkin Donuts. I was a very happy girl! Nate excused himself to go to the bathroom and I didn't even bat an eye, I was too busy scarfing down a donut. All of a sudden I hear, "Oh sh*t! I'm sorry, Lupe!" Nate's best friend just knocked down my dog's bag and he went rolling across the room. As I'm trying to chase the dog bag, I hear a guitar playing one of my favorite songs and group of high school kids saying, "SHH! SHH! He's coming through. Let the man come through!" then I see Nate behind the sea of people with guitar in hand. I stood there with my mouth open and a donut in my hand, in complete and total surprise. After the song ended, Nate asked me to to be his wife and spend the rest of our lives together and of course I responded with a hell yes (followed by a lot of ugly-crying)! The whole baggage claim area erupted with applause! I whispered in his ear, "is this an April Fool's joke?!" SERIOUSLY, WHO PROPOSES ON APRIL FOOL'S DAY?! I found out later that everyone knew. Literally, everyone. His parents were waiting for us at home with our favorite food: Friend chicken wings + NY pizza! Nate knew how important it was for me that he asked my dad's permission and he did (cue more ugly-crying). Our friends and other family knew and he asked to keep it a secret. He did it, he finally surprised me and it was the best possible surprise!

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Robyn Foster Engagement Story

1/11/2017

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Alex and Robyn were on vacation in the Caribbean, celebrating their second anniversary on a cruise. The couple spent their first three days relaxing at sea, getting acquainted with the layout of the ship and trying out some of the fun activities that were available. On that third day, December 1st of 2015, Alex and Robyn went to the gym after lunch, got in a nice workout, then returned to their room. There was a little bit of time to relax before their next activity, wine tasting in the main dining room. Robyn, still in her gym clothes with her hair tied back, settled onto the bed for a few moments to read. She was in the middle of an excellent book, and liked to steal any available moment to read a page or two. Alex tinkered around the room, as was his way, and she thought nothing of it. "Honey," Alex called, from across the room. Robyn didn't look up. "Mm?" She flipped another page. "Before we go wine tasting..." "Uh huh...?" Her nose remained decidedly stuck in her book. Did he want the shower before her? Was he wondering what clothes to change into? "Will you marry me?" Robyn dropped her book and looked up. Had she heard him correctly? She looked around for clues. Stateroom, gym clothes, fluorescent lighting, Alex standing in the middle of the room looking down at her. It didn't necessarily LOOK like a proposal... Robyn wanted a little clarification. It came out elegantly: "WHAT?!" Alex nodded and smiled. He said, "Yeah," very simply, and dug through his luggage for a small box. He lightly tossed it to her from several feet away, ever the romantic. She opened the box, and inside was a silver ring embellished with small diamonds. She knew she was intended to wear it until they chose her engagement ring. She had MANY questions. "Really?" "Yep." "Seriously?" "Uh huh." "Are you doing this because YOU want to do this?" "YES." "I mean... I thought... Didn't you tell me this wasn't going to happen for a while still?" "I changed my mind." While all of this went on, Robyn had slipped the ring onto her left ring finger. While it wasn't the proposal she had expected, all of her questioning probably wasn't the answer that Alex had expected, either. She continued on with it, anyway. She couldn't help it! "Did you talk to my parents?" He detailed the exchange he'd had with Robyn's father, and the texts he'd gotten from her mother. That information, somehow, finally gave Robyn the context she'd been looking for. It was real. She cried. They hugged. And at some point, she did actually say yes.

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Lindsey Gideon Engagement Story

1/9/2017

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We would walk and talk in a park by his house and sit on this bench for our relationship talks before deployments and other big moments in our relationship. Often times they were challenging conversations and weren't always happy. Whenever we would walk by after that for random things, I told Conor after those talks that I wanted to make a purely happy memory in that park. Conor always insisted on pushing off Lindsey’s attempts to make that happen, knowing inside that he wanted it to be the happiest memory he could possibly think of. On a Saturday afternoon, surrounded by good friends either tucked into the background or hiding in the grass with a camera, Conor got down on one knee and asked Lindsey to marry him! Definitely counts as a happy memory there. They are so excited to spend their lives together.

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Andrea Swift Engagement Story

1/1/2017

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My college campus has a little lake with an island in the middle. There is this tradition that if you walk across the bridge holding hands onto the island and carve your initials into a tree then you'll get married. My senior year of college, my boyfriend and I did just that. Flash forward two years and I'm visiting him in law school and I ask if we can visit my college campus across the street. I really wanted to visit the bookstore since the last time I visited it was closed. We had plans to go out to dinner afterwards but we had some time between our reservation and when the bookstore closed so I suggested we walk around campus and go look at our tree. We walk around before finally getting to the island. I see our tree covered in lights and roses on the ground. I thought they were for someone else but he suggests we walk over and check it out. He bends down to turn on the lights and all I can think is "what are you doing? those are for someone else, you can't touch them!" He hands me a bouquet of roses and tells me its all for me. He got down on one knee and said "you are my best friend and the love of my life, will you marry me?" I was so surprised and happy I shouted "of course!" It was absolutely perfect, he even had some of our friends hiding in the bushes to capture the moment! ​

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Tiffany Mijailovic Engagement Story

1/1/2017

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I was home with my family for Christmas this year and could not convince my now fiancé to take off work so that he could make it home with me for the holidays. I was pretty bummed that he wasn't going to make it. On the day of Christmas Eve, my sister, trying to cheer me up, asked if I wanted to go on her friends' boat on the lake in our home town. Of course I would never pass up a boat ride with my sister! Then, to my surprise, my two best friends (Steffany & Saira who are both bridesmaids) and my mom were able to join us at last minute! As I approached the dock I noticed there were two guys on the boat. From a distance I couldn't tell who they were. As I got closer my heart skipped a beat..it was my dad and...Zack! At first I said "what are you doing here ??!" Then, the slow motion moment occurred ..que our song ( the infamous John legends "all of me" ) began playing ..I looked at the boat and there was a bottle of wine which was a special bottle that we had saved for some time now. Then he walked towards me with a nervous demeanor and grabbed the bouquet of flowers. My heart stopped ..at that point I realized what was going on. I immediately started crying ..like the full blown ugly " Carrie Matheson (homeland)" cry (as seen from the very candid picture attached that my sister captured) I couldn't believe it, he said " Tiffany ..you are the most beautiful ..." Then I completely blacked out and just kept saying yes! He couldn't really finish his adorable speech he had planned due to my overwhelming blubbering, but it was beyond perfect. He got down on one knee with the beautiful lake in the background, the music, the flowers, the wine, and the best part, all of my family and best friends were there. (They were all in on this little secret of course) To top off this beautiful moment, a lovely joy ride on the boat complete with champagne and chocolate, face-time with Stacey (my other bestie), tears of joy, the perfect ring and everyone I love. Best. Day. Ever!

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