propose to my girlfriend

It was pretty elaborate. When I woke Katy up this morning, I took her in the kitchen where there were two boxes from Mike’s Pastries (best Italian bakery in Boston located in the North End), a bouquet of roses, a bowl with 3 eggs in it, 4 cups of dye, a new book for her, and breakfast for us both. We ate breakfast, and I opened the first bakery box. It was filled with her favorite pastries. The second box was a customized heart-shaped Boston Creme cake with roses all over it and the words I Love You written on it. After breakfast we dyed the eggs. The first one had Under written on it, the second, The, and the third, Cake. Telling her where the first clue was. After several clues she was led to a book we both love, Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlen and from which we frequently write little 4 line poems that start out Over the Sword…
Inside was such a poem and a cue to turn around, where she found me on one knee with ring in hand.

I said, “Katy, I’ve loved you so long that I couldn’t imagine life without you, and hopefully I will never have to. Will you marry me?”

She said yes!!!

We’re celbrating with 4th row seats to see Wicked tonight and dinner at a super fancy restaurant. Yayayayayayayayayay!!!

we have an action-packed day today, and I’ll be proposing somewhere in there. i think it’s creative and sweet. katy reads this religiously, so I’ll wait til after it’s done to get into the gory details. wish me luck!

She was SO suprized by it!
i’d spent quite some time planning, but it was all worth it.

Fancy dinner, i fumbled and was nervous but pop’d the question, she cried a little, limo ride with our friends, movie (they displayed and congradulations slide for us!)...

it was great.

the best part, by far, was just the fact that we’re finally engaged!

*Started dating in Junior high, been together 8 1/2 years straight!

on vacation, katy received a call from the ring company for a last minute check-in before they created the ring. That is now happening and I just have to wait for the ring and continue plotting the proposal.

waiting for the damn ring. it looks like i may not have it until september. i’m getting married in october. i’m also kind of freaking out about the proposal. we know a few couples who’ve recently gotten engaged and/or marriage and I feel a lot of pressure to top their proposals and at the same time come up with something surprising and original.

A debacle of epic proportions.

The setup was as follows:

Each stop on the “treasure hunt” was a place that meant something to our relationship (where we first met, etc.). At each place would be a friend of ours waiting for her to show up, give her something, and a notecard with the next clue. The end result was to culminate at our local art gallery, where I had purchased her favorite painting for her. Then she was to go to a little meadow with a bell, which is where we first kissed. And then, proposal. Oh, it was also our first anniversary, so there was the whole cover of just giving her a painting for our anniversary; she thought I’d be proposing in June.

Anyways, the plan was to get going and have her in town by 11:40 (we’re 40 minutes away).

The alarm didn’t go off, and she took her time with her morning routine, so we didn’t get out the damn door until 12:30.

First stop went fine, but then on the second stop she ended up talking to the friend for something like a half hour.

Third stop was cancelled as a result, partly because of tme, and partly because the friend was at the wrong place.

And downhill from there… the final “culmination” didn’t even work right, because the art gallery ladies didn’t know that THEY were supposed to give her the painting, not me; so they just ended up hanging out with her and feeding her for 30 minutes.

The bell proposing also was a bit marred, because I realized (too late) that it was private Catholic nun property, and we were awesomely trespassing. Also, it started to sleet. On us.

Anyways, it ended up with my properly-worded speech going out the window as soon as I got down on one knee, and just stammered out “I love you… w… will you please marry me?”

She just nodded.

So we know we’re getting married, but I can’t formally propose until I meet with her dad to ask for his blessing and I can’t get the ring until Katy designs it through a custom building site, and she can’t send that in until she gets the diamond from her grandmother’s ring. we’ve decided to start using the term fiancee and are well into wedding planning though.

Katy’s just about finished designing the ring she wants, and I will order it to be created. On our next break, I plan to ask her father for his permission to ask her. Then it’s a matter of waiting for the ring to come. We’ve been discussing a lot of wedding plans recently and I’m overly anxious to finally get married.

Totally worth it. Takes the relationship to the next level!

Katy and I are in the process of having a ring specially designed and crafted for us. The process may take a few months, but there is definitely progress on this goal.

She wants a reverse cradle design (the wedding band interlocks with the engagement ring) made of platinum with flowery filigree (stil working out which flower) and the bands will be celtic knotwork with a viny or leafy design (to go with the flowers on her engagement ring).