Thanks everyone!
I'm addicted to the forum, I'm sure I'll stick around!
I'll get some pics regular size, just for you Mara.
All those pics were at 19x.
Definitely will post the proposal story, although it isn't a surprise. We met while she was visiting on a tourist visa, she went back to Peru where she is a citizen and has been going to school. We've gone through the fiancee visa process and are currently waiting on the INS or the US government or someone to verify she isn't a terrorist and then they will grant her the visa so she can come here and we can marry. We were told (last week) that will take one to three months. She has been back for 13 months and I haven't been able to hug or kiss her since I visited Peru 9 months ago.
She knows I bought the ring but I haven't shown her any pictures. I want there to be atleast
some sort of surprise! Her only criteria was she wanted a 3 stone ring (she fell for the past-present-future commercial apparently...) and she wanted a squarish band. In the beginning I told her we should go for a solitaire so we could get a bigger stone. Back then my budget was $3000! Who knew I'd spend $8600?
Anyway, so I tell her now I couldn't get exactly what she wanted but that she'd better like it.
And anytime I refer to it I use the word "diamond" (singular), implying that I got her a solitaire.
Of course by saying I didn't get exactly what she wanted I was referring to the squarish band! Just trying to keep her guessing, though I feel kinda bad cause she has to wait one to three months.
As for the actual proposal... I'm not sure how I should go about it... theres the place we first kissed, at a bench in a park near the sea. But its not all
that nice and seems there should be a better place... I'd like it to be really nice and a place we can always come back to. Theres no way to really surprise her cause she really wants to see the ring. She's been trying to convince me to give it to her at the airport when she comes!
So I'm sure she'll be on the lookout whenever I take her somewhere until she gets it.
I could blind fold her and drive her all around, then take her somewhere... thats a pretty good idea I think... but where? Something like the edge of a cliff overlooking a city would be nice... anyone know of any good cliffs?
Plus then if she says "no" I could push her off!
Any ideas?