Wedding Blog

The proposal happened in the beautiful city of Paris on May 13th. It was right after a horrible dinner at a tourist oriented French bistro. Mr. Violet suggested we take a stroll to Notre Dame. We spent some time inside and then Mr. Violet lured me towards the garden. Sadly for him, the “gated” garden was closed for the evening! He seemed very disappointed and at the time I didn’t understand why. (We came here on the first day of arrival.) We proceeded to loiter in front of Notre Dame for a good 15 minutes. At this time, I started to wonder if something fishy was going on.

After 7.5 years of being with him, I knew this day would come, but I really didn’t expect it to happen in Paris (then again, why not Paris?) so I was a bit delusional trying to figure out if he really was planning on proposing, or if I was just imagining things. It took Mr. Violet another 15 minutes to finally find a spot on a bridge behind the Notre Dame. Unfortunately, by the time he actually proposed, I was in a bit of a daze. He did go down on one knee, but I made him get up right away (I get embarrassed easily.) The last thing I saw was my rock, I eventually said “yes” and that was that. It was truly perfect.

In retrospect, he almost had to propose at the Eurostar rail station 2 days prior because he hid my ring in his back pack. The security guard thoroughly searched his bags and almost pulled out the ring (stored in a PSP plastic holder) while I was there standing next to him. So… although I had to wait for the proposal, I’m glad it didn’t happen at a rail station!

(images via larscapes & culturalgeneral)