Lets just say that September 29th was one of the most exciting days of my life. I am going to marry my high school sweetheart and my best friend. :) I am beyond blessed!
I’m guessing most of you want to hear the story about how Paul proposed. :) Well here you go…
London has had the most amazing weather of the season. There was a week where it was in the low 80’s and high 70’s. Knowing that we probably won’t get weather like this in autumn, we decided to plan a day to have a picnic. We bought some white wine, bread with oil and parmesan cheese and strawberry’s with nutella.
The next day it was absolutely gorgeous out with a light breeze and high 70’s. We decided to pack lunches and go to Hyde Park. As I was finishing up getting ready, Paul came in and was complimenting me on everything from my hair to the little bird dress I was wearing. This didn’t really catch me off guard since he normally compliments me a lot. :) (He also told me later that he wanted to make sure I felt beautiful on the day he proposed.) Which was probably why he complimented me a lot and was trying to get me to say I look good. haha When he complimented me on my hair and outfit I said, “Thanks, I do look kind of cute today.” For those of you who have never heard of Hyde Park, it is one of London’s largest parks and it is also one of the Royal Parks of London. When we got to Hyde Park we went down a road that had trees on both sides that swept across the top. Autumn is coming so all the leaves were changing and blowing across the ground. If you didn’t know before, fall is my favorite season. Anyways, we found the best spot for our picnic, which was under these really tall trees that had tons of leaves covering the ground. We sat down, opened our bottle of wine and toasted to being in London together. We enjoyed our sandwiches, our bread with oil and parmesan cheese and just talked about life. When we started eating our strawberries with nutella we started reminiscing about our past and how far we have come along. In the middle of our conversation a squirrel came along and Paul almost got the squirrel to grab a piece of bread from his hand! Anyways, we continued our conversation and talked about high school and laughed about how we met and also how the years just went by so fast. Then we went into talking about the future and that’s when Paul said, “How about we start the next chapter of our lives in London.” I look at him smiling and probably a little confused and asked, “what do you mean?” Paul reached into his backpack and pulled out a little blue box and went down on one knee and asked me to marry him!!! I immediately gave him a hug and said yes! I was just so happy that I forgot about the ring and Paul was like, “will you put the ring on already?” The ring is so beautiful. I am so in love with it. I look at it probably 50 times a day. Also I didn’t notice, but Paul said there was a bunch of girls in the park that saw and took our pictures.
After that we stayed at the park for a while and talked about everything and kept saying, “I can’t believe we are finally getting married!!!” Later on we went back to Roehampton, got dressed and went to a romantic dinner in central that overlooked Big Ben. That was also the first time we went to central at night and saw all the buildings lit up. It is so pretty!
I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day. He really did an amazing job and I am so blessed to have him in my life and to have him as my future husband. Wow that’s crazy to say! Well here is my fiancé’s story about getting the ring to London! I hope you enjoyed this blog post. :)
Hi everyone!
SHE SAID YES!!!
So now I will tell you how I managed to get Emma’s engagement ring to London…
Well I knew I wanted to propose to Emma but I wasn’t sure how or when but I knew I needed a job to be able to support us as a family before I could even begin to think about getting married. This summer, as many of you know I was incredibly blessed get this great summer internship with Merrill Lynch in Chicago and was even more blessed to receive a full-time offer starting July 2012. I received my job offer on September 1st and we were flying to London on September 13th. This did not give me a lot of time to go ring shopping and for those of you who don’t know how I am with shopping, I am always trying to get the perfect item for the perfect price and it takes me forever haha so picking out an engagement ring was not an easy task to do two weeks before heading to London. Once I had the ring I still had to figure out how I was planning to get it to London without Emma knowing I had it. Thankfully, my wonderful mom and Christie combined forces and thought of a plan to tape the ring inside one of the pockets in my wallet. You could only imagine how nervous I was to have this ring that is wrapped in tissue paper and tapped in my wallet while going through security haha. Everything went well while flying out of O’hare. My next obstacle was how I was planning on going through customs. After we picked up our luggage I had Emma go ahead of me then I told her I “forgot” to claim my iPad and to wait here while I talked to them. So while Emma was roughly 10 feet away I had to quickly and quietly tell the customs agent my situation and how to claim it. Luckily, he played along answered my question and started to ask me questions about the iPad because he wanted one, and just like that I successfully made it into London without Emma knowing her engagement ring was in my pocket the whole time.
I just wanted to say how excited I am to be starting this next chapter of my life here in London with Emma and I hope you all enjoyed the story. I don’t remember the last time I was that nervous haha but I made it though! So keep us in your prayers as we finish up school and begin planning a wedding! :D
-Paul
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