I'm excited that we have this website to keep everyone updated as to what is going on with us! And thank you so much to everyone for your congratulations! We are so excited and it means a lot to us that our friends and family are as well.
So here is my version of the proposal:
Let me just preface everything by saying that I wasn't expecting a proposal at all until Spring Break. We had talked about the timing of it a lot, and I was getting very anxious trying to get clues from him all the time. But from what he had said and what his attitude seemed to be, I was completely expecting it to happen in March.
So...
I had been shopping with my mom at Bridgestreet and we were in the dressing rooms when my dad called my mom wondering why Gerrit wanted to go out to lunch. Gerrit had already told me that he wanted to go meet with my dad about a website, and so this didn't really alarm me. But my dad wanted to know if this was "it."
After Gerrit had gone to lunch he came to meet up with me and my mom. We saw our friend Lauren and we were talking to her which brought up the conversation about him getting sized for a suit. He needs to get sized for her wedding and I have been bugging him to get this done for awhile now. So I asked him if he had gone that morning like he said he would, to which he responded that he hadn't and that he wanted me to come with him to go to a store over the mountain. I complained (why wasn't the S&K in Bridgestreet good enough?), but then he begged again in a "please don't ask questions or you will ruin this for yourself" kind of way.
So here is my version of the proposal:
Let me just preface everything by saying that I wasn't expecting a proposal at all until Spring Break. We had talked about the timing of it a lot, and I was getting very anxious trying to get clues from him all the time. But from what he had said and what his attitude seemed to be, I was completely expecting it to happen in March.
So...
I had been shopping with my mom at Bridgestreet and we were in the dressing rooms when my dad called my mom wondering why Gerrit wanted to go out to lunch. Gerrit had already told me that he wanted to go meet with my dad about a website, and so this didn't really alarm me. But my dad wanted to know if this was "it."
After Gerrit had gone to lunch he came to meet up with me and my mom. We saw our friend Lauren and we were talking to her which brought up the conversation about him getting sized for a suit. He needs to get sized for her wedding and I have been bugging him to get this done for awhile now. So I asked him if he had gone that morning like he said he would, to which he responded that he hadn't and that he wanted me to come with him to go to a store over the mountain. I complained (why wasn't the S&K in Bridgestreet good enough?), but then he begged again in a "please don't ask questions or you will ruin this for yourself" kind of way.
I'm excited that we have this website to keep everyone updated as to what is going on with us! And thank you so much to everyone for your congratulations! We are so excited and it means a lot to us that our friends and family are as well.
So here is my version of the proposal:
Let me just preface everything by saying that I wasn't expecting a proposal at all until Spring Break. We had talked about the timing of it a lot, and I was getting very anxious trying to get clues from him all the time. But from what he had said and what his attitude seemed to be, I was completely expecting it to happen in March.
So...
I had been shopping with my mom at Bridgestreet and we were in the dressing rooms when my dad called my mom wondering why Gerrit wanted to go out to lunch. Gerrit had already told me that he wanted to go meet with my dad about a website, and so this didn't really alarm me. But my dad wanted to know if this was "it."
After Gerrit had gone to lunch he came to meet up with me and my mom. We saw our friend Lauren and we were talking to her which brought up the conversation about him getting sized for a suit. He needs to get sized for her wedding and I have been bugging him to get this done for awhile now. So I asked him if he had gone that morning like he said he would, to which he responded that he hadn't and that he wanted me to come with him to go to a store over the mountain. I complained (why wasn't the S&K in Bridgestreet good enough?), but then he begged again in a "please don't ask questions or you will ruin this for yourself" kind of way.
This was my first hint that something was up. He also didn't have a very good excuse as to why he hadn't had time to run this errand earlier in the morning.
We left Bridgestreet and started driving and I kept asking questions trying to evaluate the situation. What is this place called? Do you know where it is? All of his answers were sketchy, and this made me more suspicious.
Despite what he says about me playing into his plan perfectly, I knew as soon as he turned to go up the mountain that he was up to something. I knew even more that he kept making different detours. But I was just in denial. As much as I had hoped, I just KNEW that he wasn't going to propose this month.
But he did. We found a pretty view, got out of the car, and after he said something mushy (I really don't even remember) he proposed.
And as wonderful as that moment is, and as much as everyone makes a big deal about the proposal, the best part has been everything afterwards.
That night our families got together for dinner. It was so wonderful to see everyone so excited! Telling our friends has also been so much fun! It seems so surreal to us, but with everyone visibly excited around us it helps it to sink in a bit more.
We feel so loved! And we love all of y'all!
So here is my version of the proposal:
Let me just preface everything by saying that I wasn't expecting a proposal at all until Spring Break. We had talked about the timing of it a lot, and I was getting very anxious trying to get clues from him all the time. But from what he had said and what his attitude seemed to be, I was completely expecting it to happen in March.
So...
I had been shopping with my mom at Bridgestreet and we were in the dressing rooms when my dad called my mom wondering why Gerrit wanted to go out to lunch. Gerrit had already told me that he wanted to go meet with my dad about a website, and so this didn't really alarm me. But my dad wanted to know if this was "it."
After Gerrit had gone to lunch he came to meet up with me and my mom. We saw our friend Lauren and we were talking to her which brought up the conversation about him getting sized for a suit. He needs to get sized for her wedding and I have been bugging him to get this done for awhile now. So I asked him if he had gone that morning like he said he would, to which he responded that he hadn't and that he wanted me to come with him to go to a store over the mountain. I complained (why wasn't the S&K in Bridgestreet good enough?), but then he begged again in a "please don't ask questions or you will ruin this for yourself" kind of way.
This was my first hint that something was up. He also didn't have a very good excuse as to why he hadn't had time to run this errand earlier in the morning.
We left Bridgestreet and started driving and I kept asking questions trying to evaluate the situation. What is this place called? Do you know where it is? All of his answers were sketchy, and this made me more suspicious.
Despite what he says about me playing into his plan perfectly, I knew as soon as he turned to go up the mountain that he was up to something. I knew even more that he kept making different detours. But I was just in denial. As much as I had hoped, I just KNEW that he wasn't going to propose this month.
But he did. We found a pretty view, got out of the car, and after he said something mushy (I really don't even remember) he proposed.
And as wonderful as that moment is, and as much as everyone makes a big deal about the proposal, the best part has been everything afterwards.
That night our families got together for dinner. It was so wonderful to see everyone so excited! Telling our friends has also been so much fun! It seems so surreal to us, but with everyone visibly excited around us it helps it to sink in a bit more.
We feel so loved! And we love all of y'all!
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