Engagement Story
For those who do not know already, I am engaged to the beautiful Kimberly. Some of you may wonder how I proposed. Well, here is the story…
If you know Kim, you know she is very creative and will make just about anything for her friends, just to make them smile if they are sick or for their birthday. So I knew I had to do something that was as creative as she is. The typical ideas that people use propose really just would not cut it with her, so that eliminated a sunset walk on the beach and a ring on a desert plate at a restaurant. I got the feeling that she was expecting a proposal soon because her birthday, Christmas, New Years, and our 2 year anniversary of being together were all within a month.
For Kim’s birthday, all she asked from me is to take her shopping. So I did just that, on the 17 of December, the day after her birthday, I arrived at her house with 2 dozen red roses which she assumed were for her birthday. I informed Kim that I was making her a birthday present and she had no idea what it was. I put about 15 hours into making a homemade scrapbook of our past and present. Some of the images were from winter camps, weddings, birthdays, and our travels. I kept telling her that my gift really wasn’t all that special or great so we needed to do something to make it that much better. She suggested that we set the ambiance. So with that in mind we decided to wait until later in the day to open the gift. So we had lunch at Red Robin and went to Brea Mall for her birthday shopping spree. Around 4:00 pm, we finally left the mall and decided that it was time for her to open the gift. We were off to set the ambiance, I asked her to direct me to a park that we had been to in the past, though I know exactly how to get to the park. This made it seem more spontaneous even though it was planned. If you have ever been to Summit House in Brea, there is a small park on the corner off of Bastanchury Rd & State College Blvd. The mood had been set, sunset over looking the city of Brea. We walked over to a park bench, sat down, and Kim opened the gift.
As she went through the scrapbook we laughed at all of the inside jokes and when she turned to the last page she expected it to say, “will you marry me?” , but it was not there and she was a little let down. She then noticed that there was a small envelop on the back of the scrapbook that was all folded up. So as she opened it, I got on my knee, pulled out the ring box out of my sweatshirt pocket and told her how much I love her and that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. I then asked, “Will You Marry Me?” And of course she said yes or else I wouldn’t be engaged.
If you look at the pictures, the image of the ring is the one that I got here. The setting of the diamonds is called Past, Present, & Future. So the scrapbook represented our past, our present, and our future. I know it’s a little sappy but was perfect for Kim.
