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    Sunnyday278    September 21, 2013   Carlisle, PA

    Hello bees! I have been a lurker for about a year now, because I just had this thing about not joining any websites until I was ACTUALLY engaged. In the meantime, I have fallen in like with you all Smile. I think you ladies are wonderful, supportive, genuine, honest, and caring!

    I wanted to share my proposal story! A bit of background. My FIANCE (first time in type!) and I have been dating since May 2009. The first time he asked me out, I said no! I had not long before been through a horrible breakup, and I was leaving for a semester studying abroad in Rome at the end of August. Don't get me wrong, I believe in LDR's, just wasnt so sure my own could survive being apart as long as we would have had time to be together.

    Fast forward a month, and he's completely won me over anyway! We dated the whole summer, and decided to let things fall as they may while I was in Rome. We found it was so easy for us. And while I was there, we fell in love. We've been lovin' and laughin' and growing together as a couple ever since! We are currently in a little bit of an LDR, because he is still attending school and I have moved back home (2 hours apart.)

    This summer several of his friends got married/engaged, and we started getting the... "when are you two going to take the plunge?!" awkward questions. He reacted by joking about NEVER getting married! (Cue my worried face here.) Deep down I knew he was kidding because we had truly talked about our wants for the future, but still. Girls hate to hear that kind of stuff.

    Turns out, he was just trying to throw me off the scent. (Especially because I had friends predicting "I'd be next"...). This past saturday, the fourth, he took me out to dinner for my "birthday". (tomorrow!) He said let's dress up, it would be nice. After dinner, he pulled out a little silver wrapped package. It was a book of our love letters to each other while we were in Rome! We wrote our love story to each other in the third person from our perspectives. He had used shutterfly to make a book with pictures. Then he pulled out a letter. It was the next "chapter", and he told me to read it right there. The last sentences say "every time he drove away from her, he gets choked up. And he keeps realizing, not for the first time, that she is the girl he is going to marry. That is why they are here tonight, in this restaurant, not for her birthday, but so he can ask for her hand in marriage." He waited for my reaction (tears) and when he saw it, got down on one knee and simply asked "Will you marry me?" I said yes yes yes yes yes and the whole restaurant was clapping! 

    Well thank you ladies for letting me share, and now for the ring!!!!

    Pleased to meet you! (With a side of engagement story/ring porn) :  wedding Ring

     
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    FutureMsVW    August 4, 2012  

    congrats!!! i LOVE your ring!

     
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    couawilou    October 20, 2012   Toronto, Ontario

    Awww such a cute story, congratulations and welcome to the Hive! Gorgeous ring!

     
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    marita    September 22, 2012  

    Wonderful story, so romantic... <3

     Congratulations!!

     
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    theredhead    January 4, 2014   Orlando, Florida

    Your ring is amazing! Congratulations! :) 

     
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    cwat12    October 21, 2012   Texas

    Congrats!!!

     
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    squeak    August 10, 2013  

    Congratulations! That is the sweetest proposal ever!! And I love that you will have all of your letters to keep forever! Such a wonderful idea! Happy planning!

     
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    windcriesamy    April 6, 2013   North Carolina

    This story made my heart flutter. Such a sweet proposal and a gorgeous ring. Congrats!

     
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    asscherlover    August 17, 2013  

    @Sunnyday278:  Thats a beautiful ring! And happy birthday!

     
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    misschickpea    October 26, 2013   Austin, TX

    Aww, such a sweet story!! Beautiful ring as well! Happy planning lady and WELCOME!

     
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    phoenixandstars    October 13, 2012   Mid-Michigan

    *SWOON* Love it and congrats! Your ring is gorgeous and he did great on the proposal! My fiance made me a book about our love story too and it's such an amazing thing to have to cherish for years to come!!!!!!!

     
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    Sunnyday278    September 21, 2013   Carlisle, PA

    Thank you ladies!

     
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    maudemaisha       Montreal

    Congratulations !! Hows planning going ? :) 

     
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    ChefDori    October 24, 2012   Virginia

    Congratulations!!! What a beautiful proposal. That brought tears to my eyes. I know, I am a hopeless romantic. I wish you many many years of happiness.

     
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    PoeticDoveInLA    December 8, 2012   Acadia Parish, Louisiana

    Congrats! And what a ring, so pretty!  Your story made me tear up, such a beautiful story!

     
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    MissTX    May 17, 2013   Texas

    Ummmm HUGE brownie points to your guys for that proposal...VERY sweet and thoughtful and he had to put a lot of time into that. How adorable :) Glad you joined the bee and now you get all the help in the world with your concerns and questions with planning etc. You will love it! And congrats!

     
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    Sunnyday278    September 21, 2013   Carlisle, PA

    Thank you ladies! You're all so nice :)

     
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    thinzman    March 24, 2009  

    congats!!! I absolutely love your ring

     
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    Ms.Ninja    August 17, 2013   The South

    your ring is so unique, I love it!  And your proposal story was so cute, welcome to the hive! Happy Planning!

     
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    WestCoast    May 2013   Canada

    Aw! Congrats! And welcome!!

     
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    shirasagi    May 25, 2013   GA

    That is so sweet! What a thoughtful way to propose! Oh and to have old fashioned love letters like that, how romantic! Congratualtions and your guy picked out one gorgeous ring!! 

     
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    upallnight    September 21, 2012  

    wow, great proposala and i love your ringa i think we may actually be ring twins 

     
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    Unconditionallove    February 28, 2015   New York

    @Sunnyday278:  oh my god, that story idea is super cute!!!! props to your fiance for thinking that one up!!! almost made me cry! LOL..love the ring..congrats!!

     
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    Sweet.  I may or may not be tearing up here.   Congratulations!

     
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    BayStateBride    September 1, 2012   Cow Hampshire (wedding in MA)

    Seriously, my heart just melted.  What an amazingly intimate proposal.  Congratulations!

     
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    Sunnyday278    September 21, 2013   Carlisle, PA

    Ya'll are making me blush :) I'm so happy to be a bee! Thank you!

     
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    PookyShoes    June 15, 2013  

    @Sunnyday278:  wow! that is the best proposal story I have heard yet! It seriously gave me goosebumps!! Congratulations, you have definitely got a keeper there!

     
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    MissEdamame    July 2009  

    Beautiful ring! Welcome to the Hive!

     
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    Merlisea    October 19, 2012  

    Oh my gosh I started tearing up when I read: "every time he drove away from her, he gets choked up. And he keeps realizing, not for the first time, that she is the girl he is going to marry. That is why they are here tonight, in this restaurant, not for her birthday, but so he can ask for her hand in marriage." 

    You proposal story is just as GORGEOUS as that ring on your finger! Congratulations! That is one of the sweetest stories I've ever heard :)

     
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    Jenlon    September 3, 2011   Warsaw, NY

    Alright... that made me tear up too! Soo sweet :) And beautiful ring! Congrats!

     

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