Wedding Blog

Almost one year ago, Mr. Gloss bent down on one knee, said some sweet words (which I wish I could remember), and handed me a box with a diamond ring inside.

obligatory ring shot by yours truly

I don’t think I ever shared our engagement story with the hive, so I thought I’d give you a little recap in honor of our almost engage-a-versary.

Setting the scene:

• Mr. Gloss and I had been house hunting for a little while, so each day at work Mr. Gloss would send me links to properties he liked to see what I thought.
• The night before ’E-Day’ he told me we were going out to with some friends downtown (Boston) to celebrate the fact that two of our friends had just finished their first year of graduate school. I work downtown, so I will usually just hang out in the city rather than go back to our apartment and then turn around and head right back in; therefore, I usually wear something work/night appropriate.

How it happened:

At about 3:00 on ’E-Day’ (which was a Friday), I got an email with a link to a property. I clicked on it and while scrolling through the pictures, I recognized a few of them as ones we had taken together at a park we used to work at growing up. The last image had directions to meet him at the end of Long Wharf in Boston. So I walked (maybe a little fast ) to the wharf, and there he was, standing there waiting for me. All I can really remember after that was this:

Me: “Hi”
Him: “Hi… do you want to be embarrassed?”
Me: “Um… no, not really”

At this point he pulled me behind one of the brick pillars so we were hidden from the view of everyone hanging out on the wharf, and proposed. I cried. The ring was huge (note: plastic rings at Target are not good indicators of actual ring size), and my hands were shaking. He had made dinner plans at Mare, an Italian restaurant in the North End, so we walked towards the restaurant. I’m pretty sure I didn’t stop looking at my ring the whole time. So we ate good food, drank good wine, and obviously followed it with gelato. When we arrived back at our apartment, he had a bottle of wine he had been saving since he had come to visit me when I lived in Italy . So we relaxed with more delicious wine and called our parents and told them the good news!

In honor of our ’E-Day’, I want to do something special for Mr. Gloss. Do you have any suggestions?!

Are you planning on celebrating your engage-a-versary?