samkongado
Rough_Rock
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Yikes I've got like 4 threads now right near the top of the board. I swear I'll stop the monopoly soon!
Ok, so... here's how it all went down (I already have a description of my original plan on the thread "my proposal thursday"). I had everything set up in the apartment ahead of time (but hidden away because I knew she'd be coming home first and I didn't want her to know she'd end up getting proposed to in the apartment!). Candles hidden under the bed, rose petals stashed away in the cupboard, all my props set up around town. I had called her at 4 and told her to call me when she was driving home because I was hungry for pizza- she thought we were going on a pizza date last night. I know she was getting out of work at 5, and at 5:20 I still hadn't heard from her, and was getting a little worried because if she got held up too long at work, sunlight might become a factor. Well, then her car pulled up and I breathed a sigh of relief (and heartrate increased tenfold). All this time I was hiding just down the way spying on her.
So she walks up to the door and a single red rose is on the doorstep. Inside I had my mp3 player and it told her to play it. The messages told her she was going on a quest and to get ready. I told her she has STRICTLY 5 minutes, not a second more, to get ready (I didn't want her dilly-dallying). Well, TWENTY-FIVE minutes later she emerges out of the apartment and heads to her first location. I was worried maybe she didn't know how to play the message, or just ignored it, or something like that. But she came through, and went to the b-ball courts where I had hidden a puzzle with answers about our relationship. She had to call my friend to get the answer key- she later told me that she was super nervous to call him and tried to play it cool. I was able to sneak around the court and get a quick glimpse of her completing her puzzle!
So then she was off to a friend's house for the next clue. This was when my action started. I ran like a madman inside the house to get the hundreds of candles set up, sheets put up on the windows to make it darker, rose petals strewn across the apartment, etc. I was wearing my suit so I started sweating bullets! The hard part was I really didn't know how much time I had and my nightmare was that she would walk in while I was still setting up! Luckily that didn't happen.
Anyway, she went to my friend's house where a note was there for her to listen again to another track on the mp3 player. I put my message two minutes into the track in between some music to throw her off and ensure she didn't cheat ahead of time and listen to all the tracks on the mp3 player to get clues. That message told her to drive to an outdoors location where I had hidden a package for her. She drove there, and I had left her a photo album with about 100 photos from our relationship. Also, in order to find the album she had to listen to yet ANOTHER track on the mp3 player, which was a song I had written for her and had a lot of significance. She absolutely LOVED the album, and said she was crying when she looked through it. She was super paranoid somebody was watching her at this point because she was really emotional. The clue was for her to return home.
At home, she ran into the room where I had the whole shebang ready to go. She ran up and almost wouldn't let me do my thing, she tried to hug me and kiss me before I said a single word! So I stopped her, gave my little speech, and asked her to marry me. She wouldn't even let me put on the ring before she grabbed me and hugged and kissed me!
And the great news... I was able to film the whole thing on my digital camera! It's a little grainy and a little dark but it's awesome that we have it because she didn't remember a single word I said to her. LUCKILY, she had ALMOST taken the camera with her on her trek, she actually had it in her purse, but then she decided not too at the very last second because my STRICT INSTRUCTIONS gave her a list of items she was supposed to take, and the camera was not one of them. She thought it might be nice to have the camera with her, but I'm so glad she didn't!
She loves the ring too! We didn't get many good photos yet because we want to get natural light- diamonds dont' look as good with a flash. I'll probably post those tonight or tomorrow.
We had a beautiful romantic dinner at a fancy restaurant and brought with us a bottle of wine I special ordered from our old favorite winery back in California. The wine is EROS which is fitting since EROS is the God of love.
And that's my story! Hope you enjoyed it, and thank you all SO much for all the support and suggestions and comments along the way. I promise I will get photos up soon. Now back to work...
Ok, so... here's how it all went down (I already have a description of my original plan on the thread "my proposal thursday"). I had everything set up in the apartment ahead of time (but hidden away because I knew she'd be coming home first and I didn't want her to know she'd end up getting proposed to in the apartment!). Candles hidden under the bed, rose petals stashed away in the cupboard, all my props set up around town. I had called her at 4 and told her to call me when she was driving home because I was hungry for pizza- she thought we were going on a pizza date last night. I know she was getting out of work at 5, and at 5:20 I still hadn't heard from her, and was getting a little worried because if she got held up too long at work, sunlight might become a factor. Well, then her car pulled up and I breathed a sigh of relief (and heartrate increased tenfold). All this time I was hiding just down the way spying on her.
So she walks up to the door and a single red rose is on the doorstep. Inside I had my mp3 player and it told her to play it. The messages told her she was going on a quest and to get ready. I told her she has STRICTLY 5 minutes, not a second more, to get ready (I didn't want her dilly-dallying). Well, TWENTY-FIVE minutes later she emerges out of the apartment and heads to her first location. I was worried maybe she didn't know how to play the message, or just ignored it, or something like that. But she came through, and went to the b-ball courts where I had hidden a puzzle with answers about our relationship. She had to call my friend to get the answer key- she later told me that she was super nervous to call him and tried to play it cool. I was able to sneak around the court and get a quick glimpse of her completing her puzzle!
So then she was off to a friend's house for the next clue. This was when my action started. I ran like a madman inside the house to get the hundreds of candles set up, sheets put up on the windows to make it darker, rose petals strewn across the apartment, etc. I was wearing my suit so I started sweating bullets! The hard part was I really didn't know how much time I had and my nightmare was that she would walk in while I was still setting up! Luckily that didn't happen.
Anyway, she went to my friend's house where a note was there for her to listen again to another track on the mp3 player. I put my message two minutes into the track in between some music to throw her off and ensure she didn't cheat ahead of time and listen to all the tracks on the mp3 player to get clues. That message told her to drive to an outdoors location where I had hidden a package for her. She drove there, and I had left her a photo album with about 100 photos from our relationship. Also, in order to find the album she had to listen to yet ANOTHER track on the mp3 player, which was a song I had written for her and had a lot of significance. She absolutely LOVED the album, and said she was crying when she looked through it. She was super paranoid somebody was watching her at this point because she was really emotional. The clue was for her to return home.
At home, she ran into the room where I had the whole shebang ready to go. She ran up and almost wouldn't let me do my thing, she tried to hug me and kiss me before I said a single word! So I stopped her, gave my little speech, and asked her to marry me. She wouldn't even let me put on the ring before she grabbed me and hugged and kissed me!
And the great news... I was able to film the whole thing on my digital camera! It's a little grainy and a little dark but it's awesome that we have it because she didn't remember a single word I said to her. LUCKILY, she had ALMOST taken the camera with her on her trek, she actually had it in her purse, but then she decided not too at the very last second because my STRICT INSTRUCTIONS gave her a list of items she was supposed to take, and the camera was not one of them. She thought it might be nice to have the camera with her, but I'm so glad she didn't!
She loves the ring too! We didn't get many good photos yet because we want to get natural light- diamonds dont' look as good with a flash. I'll probably post those tonight or tomorrow.
We had a beautiful romantic dinner at a fancy restaurant and brought with us a bottle of wine I special ordered from our old favorite winery back in California. The wine is EROS which is fitting since EROS is the God of love.
And that's my story! Hope you enjoyed it, and thank you all SO much for all the support and suggestions and comments along the way. I promise I will get photos up soon. Now back to work...
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