Weddingbee Blog

I have to admit, I knew it was coming at some point. We had been ring shopping a few times and I had picked out the design I wanted, but I didn’t know when it was actually going to happen. He did a fantastic job surprising me.

I came home from work the Friday night before Memorial Day weekend. He came out of the house and asked if I’d be willing to go to Crate & Barrel with him to buy his friend a wedding gift for the following weekend. We hopped in the car and he was super chatty the whole way, which I commented on. But he brushed it off. We got there, parked the car, and had to walk a few blocks to the store. As we approached the corner, I commented on how it was where we had our first kiss. He turned around and said, “Yeah, we have good memories here. Do you want to make another?”

He proceeded to get down on his knee right there, pulled out the most gorgeous ring I could have ever dreamt of, and told me that he loved me and asked me to marry him.

Of course I said yes and we both got teary (actually I’m getting a little teary writing this and recalling the flood of emotions that went through me at that moment!), and wouldn’t you know it… a guy just happened to be coming around the corner as I was saying yes. He looked at Mr. Nachos on his knee and said a kind of confused, “Um, congratulations?” and kept on walking. It was rather humorous. And awesome.

Did you get engaged in an unconventional locale? Where were you?