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After Mr. Starfish proposed, the real fun began—the pictures!

I happen to love pictures. I take way too many photos, and I’m known for my quick Facebook photo updates—as in they are up the next morning—before you are. I scrapbook. I stalk photo blogs. I’m pretty obsessed. I thinks it’s my obsession with capturing a memory of a second of time that you can never get back. With a photo you get to hold on to that moment forever. Some people are content with their memory, I on the other hand, am much more visual.

Surprisingly, after our proposal Mr. Starfish was the one to initiate “the photo shoot”. I was so caught up in my happiness that I didn’t really think to take pictures.

After some time basking in our newly fiancee’d status, the camera started clicking.

First came some photos of the ring…

Then some photos of us…

Then a Facebook special, in which Mr. Starfish tagged all of our coupled friends (Oh yes he did!)…

After the photo fun, came the mandatory calls. We actually didn’t do too many right away, just our parents and siblings. My family saw it coming, but his were a little surprised. This shocked me because the diamond he proposed with was the same diamond his father proposed to his mother with 30 years ago! He said they gave him the diamond, and he just never told them when he was officially doing it. So needless to say, my future mother in-law had the best reaction—she was speechless. I would be, too! I would have assumed he’d told her, but he said he only told my father prior to doing so to ask for his permission.

After the calls to family, we headed to our alma mater, Salve Regina University, to reminisce. We walked through campus stopping at all the places that hold special meaning to us, including Hunt Hall, which was our freshman dorm where we met.

Later in the evening, we had celebratory drinks on the deck at Bannister’s Wharf and made the rest of the calls. The woman at Bannister’s saw us sitting on the deck and told us we were about to miss a beautiful sunset and recommended we move to the deck on the other side. Gladly, we did. We saw the most beautiful sunset while calling all our closest family and friends to tell them the happy news.

Then… the next day was more Newport fun and of course, photo taking. We headed to an apple orchard in nearby Middletown, went for a ride on Ocean Drive and spent a little more time on the beach and at Salve. Perfect fall activities.

At the end of day two of our proposal adventure, we headed back home and were greeted by decorations, friends and family. It was absolutely perfect.

Was your proposal more than a one day affair? How did you celebrate?