Jason proposed to me one year ago today. I'd like to say that time flies, and it some ways it does, but I also feel like we've just always been married...I suppose that's probably a good thing :)
Anyway, I wanted to post our proposal story, because it's awesome of course. I was going to just repost the blog that I wrote about it, but then I realized that I never posted a blog about it. I did however, post the story on our wedding website. Since September 23rd marked the day that I never did anything wedding related again, our wedding website is still up. So, here's our proposal story
(complete with awesome photos), one year later.
Enjoy!
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Jason proposed on February 4, 2012. I have known Jason was very
romantic all along, but I this night he was on a whole new playing
field.
So...here it goes:
Jason told me that he wanted to take me on a date Saturday night. He
said that earlier in the week, but he never really said anything else
about it. So Friday night I asked him if he still wanted to go out
Saturday night, and he said, "Yes, be ready at 5:30."
Well, I was ready, but the bottom dropped out of the sky at about 5:20
that night. So we made a run to the car with my somewhat functional
(but
usually broken), leopard-print umbrella. We barely got out of my
apartment complex and he pulled out a blindfold and told me that there
were 5 parts to our date, and I had
to be blindfolded in between every part. Honestly, I wasn't as shocked
as I probably should have been when he handed me the blindfold. He did
the same thing when he asked me to be his girlfriend on September 22,
2010....it's kind of his trademark :)
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| Me with my awesome blindfold. |
So the first two parts of our date he basically took me on our first
date again. We went to Rojo for dinner in Highlands area. He didn't let
me take off the blindfold until we were literally walking in the door,
so I felt silly, but that's okay because I knew something special was
coming. We ate, and I honestly can't even remember what we talked about
because I was so giddy/excited/nervous.
After dinner, he took me to Morris Ave. downtown. On our first date,
Jason took me to a place there to hear one of our friends from church
play. On our first date, we walked around the unique area of Morris Ave.
before the show. February 4th, he walked his blindfolded girlfriend
through the same street. He guided me all the way down the cobblestone
road to this random chair sitting in the middle of the sidewalk. Then he
told me to sit down, and he got out his backpack (I asked if we were going to school).
Our "song" is called Goodnight Moon, and a while back I bought him the children's book with the same name because he'd never read
it before. So while I was sitting in the random chair in the middle of
Morris Ave., he told me that he had a story to read to me and he read me
Goodnight Moon (the book). Then he told me that he had
something for me to read, and he got out this beautiful custom made
hardback book that had all of these pictures of us in it. He'd written
the book to be like Goodnight Moon, except everything was
"Hello [fill in the blank]". I started crying about three pages in. Then
on the last page it said, "Do you want a new last name? Will you marry
me?" And when I finished reading he was on one knee with the ring out.
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| It looks like a scene from a movie. Good job Kyle (aka our spy photographer) |
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| On one knee. Love this. |
After that, we went to Homewood Park. The first time we went there was
some sort of pilates class going on or something so Jason and I made fun
of them by dancing on the tables trying to immitate them. So Saturday
when we went to the park he got out his iPod and we danced on the
table...sounds silly, but it was really sweet and cute...and let's face
it, Jason and I are a pretty silly couple.
Fourth stop was O'Henry's coffee shop in Downtown Homewood. Jason took me in (still blindfolded)
and set up his computer and he had my family on the other end of it so
we could video chat. That was probably one of the best parts of the
night because all of them were just sitting there waiting and SO excited
for us! We talked for almost an hour, which I later found out was good
because Jason wasn't sure how he was going to delay us for the fifth and
final part of the night (he totally underestimated how much four girls can talk).
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| Video chatting with my family |
Last stop of the night was at our friends' apartment. Our small group
from church and a couple of our other good friends had thrown us a
little engagement party, which was so wonderful and sweet of them. We
got to celebrate and text all of our friends and family. We also got to
eat some yummy ice cream cake and just share our story and fellowship
with the people we share life with here in Birmingham. Before we left,
our friends prayed over us and our engagement and our future marriage.
It reminded me how truly blessed we are to have each other, our friends,
and our families who are all so encouraging and supportive!
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| Our engagement party! |
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| Dun-dun-dun-duuhhhhhh...THE RING...or should I say, THE BLING! |
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