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Re: Everybody ask
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Reply to: #83982 by Ole'Pops
Apr 7, 2007 8:48am
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Quote You are correct, SOME guys don't understand. I understand completely. When you find someone who is that important to you, you would do just about anything for them.


I agree with this wholeheartedly and add a caveat. Some guys understand, but despite their best efforts, simply have difficulty carrying it off because the woman they love is an idiot. The Highlander was thwarted TWICE in the span of a month while trying to propose to me, and mostly through my OWN ineptitude.

The first time, he was buying tickets to go up and duck hunt in NY (we were living in TX at the time) and I was angry that he had money to do that, but didn't seem to have the money to get me an engagement ring. That turned into a big argument that ended with him angrily showing me the receipt he had for having the stone from his grandfather's ring removed to be placed into my engagement ring. "Your DAD knows about it, your MOM knows about it, even your friend ANN knows about it!" he snapped. The ring was in his briefcase under lock and key not a foot from me. I cried and apologized for ever doubting him.

The second time, we had a big fight over going to this place called Screams, which is a haunted park that, during the summer, is Scarborough Faire, a renaissance festival in Waxahatchie, TX (the closest one to us). There was a lovely spot that was cool and shady and overlooked a beautiful brook that we always visited and I kept thinking one day he'd propose to me at. By the time the ring was ready, the faire was over. He decided to get me there by taking me in October to Screams, but I HATE haunted houses. At about the same time, we were getting into swing dancing and I wanted to get into a contest. He refused that because he was too scared, so I made a HUGE fuss about the fact that I was willing to do something that scared ME, but he wasn't willing to make the same sacrifice. In frustration, he told me that he planned to propose to me there and once again, everyone but me knew about it and I cried and apologized, etc. By this point, he was opening up the briefcase where he had hidden the ring and was saying, "I swear, I'm just gonna GIVE it to you and that'll be THAT!" and I was BEGGING him not to do it. He was so disappointed that all his best plans were getting trashed that I told him it didn't have to be a special place or a special way, it just had to be the right time.

So, later that month, he decided to actually ask my father for my hand in marriage. The two of them went off into my dad's study for over an HOUR and my mother wouldn't let me go in with them or even eavesdrop. When they came out, I was a nervous wreck, but they were smiling and talking like old friends (apparently, only about 20 minutes of the conversation was about marrying me, the rest was playing Castle Wolfenstein on the computer or something!). By the time we got to our apartment that night, I was just looking at him adoringly and telling him how proud I was that he'd honored family tradition like this and that he was my hero for even thinking to do it. I had on my junky nightshirt and my bandanna to tie my knappy hair down for the night and he was in a t-shirt and boxers. I went to fix the bedsheets and when I turned around, he was one on knee saying "I know I don't have a lot to offer you...." with a ring in his hand.

He talked for 5 minutes and I couldn't TELL you what he said to me, I was crying so hard! The next thing I know, I was squeaking "Yes, yes, yes!" like a mouse baby and getting snot and tears all over my ring and the phone as I called my parents (who said "Well, it's ABOUT TIME!").

Incidentally, after all that, I still managed to be a snot once more. We had to have the ring resized later and that was supposed to be a surprise, too. Kevin was going to give it to me again in what he hoped was a more romantic way, but the jeweler's called to tell him the ring was ready on the ONE day in my career that I was actually home sick!

He did get to surprise me, though not with the ring. Kevin said we had to go downtown to pick the ring up from the jeweler, but we had to meet him at this special place on the other side of Dallas because he couldn't make it to the office. I was TOTALLY pissed that we had to do that on a Saturday night and thought the man had just taken advantage of my fiancee's good nature. When we got to the spot, I turned in a huff to demand why we were at some arena when we could have met the man at his office and the Highlander handed me two tickets to see the Temptations (who were doing their last show in town at the very place we were at!).

The S & H
Re: Everybody ask
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Reply to: #84008 by Sprite and Highlander
Apr 7, 2007 9:03am
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Quote I agree with this wholeheartedly and add a caveat. Some guys understand, but despite their best efforts, simply have difficulty carrying it off because the woman they love is an idiot. The Highlander was thwarted TWICE in the span of a month while trying to propose to me, and mostly through my OWN ineptitude.


Sprite, you are SO funny!!! I'm amazed that the poor Highlander *ever* managed to propose - LOL!!

But I'm glad he did, or we would never have had this great story ;-))

Mama Fox - gotta get to NY some time to meet you guys...
Re: Everybody ask
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Reply to: #84011 by The Little Foxes
Apr 7, 2007 9:20am
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Quote Sprite, you are SO funny!!! I'm amazed that the poor Highlander *ever* managed to propose - LOL!!


Funny...yes, I'm SURE that's what the Highlander thought of the whole experience! Just plain old FUNNY!

The (living in a dream world) Sprite & the (hovering over her dream bed with a pillow) Highlander
Re: Everybody ask
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Reply to: #83617 by kitten without mittens
Apr 7, 2007 2:52pm
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that is the sweetest and coolest way to propose EVER! I'm dying to know what the people who were in the ring wrote in the log!

Tee
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Reply to: #84013 by Sprite and Highlander
Apr 8, 2007 7:15pm
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It is no wonder he picked you out of all of the girls in the world to marry. That man loves you. You obviously love him as well, and as much. That was a great story. How long have you guys been married?
Re: Everybody ask
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Reply to: #84230 by Ole'Pops
Apr 9, 2007 12:02pm
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Quote How long have you guys been married?


8 years on July 17!
Re: Everybody ask
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Reply to: #83982 by Ole'Pops
Apr 12, 2007 2:10pm
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And here comes the Tortoise, trundling in 6 days late as usual :-

KWM & CQ, Congratulations from across the pond



How thrilling, letterboxing romance. Oh this hobby is so fantastic the things it leads to.

YT
Re: Everybody ask
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Reply to: #83617 by kitten without mittens
Apr 12, 2007 3:59pm
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This is beautiful. What a great story...definately THE most original proposal I have EVER heard. Those guys who rent billboards, take an ad out in the TIMES or sky write? All amateurs.

I definatley want my husband to do his proposal over. Can you do that after 15 yrs?

Very many congratulations....may you, together, have inky fingers forever!

dewdrop
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Reply to: #85228 by Dewdrop
Apr 12, 2007 5:04pm
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Congratulations to you both!!! I hope you guys have as much happiness in your lives as my husband and I have!!! What a wonderful story to pass down...

Jenny
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Re: Everybody ask
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Reply to: #84367 by Sprite and Highlander
Apr 19, 2007 8:46pm
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S&H - we got married on the same exact day! Wait, did you mean, it'll BE 8 years this July?

We got married in 99.

Mama Phoenix
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Reply to: #86897 by The Phoenix
Apr 21, 2007 9:17am
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Quote S&H - we got married on the same exact day! Wait, did you mean, it'll BE 8 years this July?

We got married in 99.

Mama Phoenix


Oh, WOW! It's the EXACT same day! On the downside, they were looking for the wreckage of JFK Jr.'s plane that day, but on the up side, the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex had been RAGING hot, but it rained that morning, making the wedding day a nice manageable 80 or so degrees for all our Buffalo vistors. We ALSO had a rainbow because of it! :-)

What was it like up here?

The S & H
Re: Everybody ask
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Reply to: #87252 by Sprite and Highlander
Apr 21, 2007 3:28pm
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Quote
Quote S&H - we got married on the same exact day! Wait, did you mean, it'll BE 8 years this July?

We got married in 99.

Mama Phoenix


Oh, WOW! It's the EXACT same day! On the downside, they were looking for the wreckage of JFK Jr.'s plane that day, but on the up side, the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex had been RAGING hot, but it rained that morning, making the wedding day a nice manageable 80 or so degrees for all our Buffalo vistors. We ALSO had a rainbow because of it! :-)

What was it like up here?

The S & H


Amazing! - I remember where I was that weekend!!! I was about 14 months pregnant with my son (the oldest littlest fox ;-)) and it was hotter than blue blazes, and my OB had called Friday and scheduled my c-section for Monday at 10:00 am. It was hotter than blue blazes, and we didn't have AC, and I spent the weekend sitting in front of the fan, watching TV about JFK Jr.'s plane. Did I mention it was hot? Foxy Boy Eli was born on Monday, July 19, at 10:48 am (my OB doc was late getting to my c-section.....).

Weird thing - I was born in 1963, the year JFK was killed. My younger brother was born November 22, 1964, the one year anniversary. My other brother was born in 1968, when Bobby Kennedy was killed. Then my son is born 2 or 3 days after JFK Jr. died. Sort of a weird Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon kinda thing, except for the Kennedys...... I was a bit worried when my daughter was born, but was afraid if I warned the Kennedys, I'd be locked up in some federal loony bin and they'd take the baby away.... ;-))

Mama Fox - a little bit insane, even on a good day...... ;-))
Re: Everybody ask
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Reply to: #87252 by Sprite and Highlander
Apr 21, 2007 9:03pm
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Quote Oh, WOW! It's the EXACT same day! On the downside, they were looking for the wreckage of JFK Jr.'s plane that day, but on the up side, the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex had been RAGING hot, but it rained that morning, making the wedding day a nice manageable 80 or so degrees for all our Buffalo vistors. We ALSO had a rainbow because of it! :-)

What was it like up here?


It was hotter than *#^$() that day! We got married in a church with no air conditioning and it was brutally hot. I think I remember reading that it was 88 degrees plus and more than 90% humidity. Papa Phoenix's dress shirt was soaked with sweat and he was considering putting on the back-up shirt but decided he was cooler with the wet one evaporating a little!

It was great in the evening though - nice, summer night!

Mama Phoenix
Re: Everybody ask
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Reply to: #87361 by The Phoenix
Apr 22, 2007 8:40am
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Aww, the Highlander just reminded me of the other really important moments we had (one that I missed, but was REALLY big for him). At his father's funeral when the Highlander was only 17, a friend of his dad's pointed out a hawk flying overhead. His wife was a Seneca Indian and they told him that a hawk at a funeral was a good sign, since Native Americans believe that they carry your soul to the heavens.

When we were getting into the limo from the church, he saw a hawk wheeling about overhead again...almost like having his dad come back for a quick visit.:-)

On my side of the family, my grandfather was lying in a VA hospital during the wedding. He'd really gotten pretty well past connecting things anymore (he was pretty senile near the end). But when my grandmother got back, she said she was expecting me to send the pictures from the wedding pretty soon. He burst into one of his lucid moments told her he'd already seen my wedding and it was beautiful. He then proceeded to describe my dress with uncanny detail. He mentioned that it wasn't quite a white dress (I thought the white-white on my dark skin looked terrible, so I had an ivory white instead), but it came off my shoulders a little and didn't have any sleeves. He also mentioned that it had a long train but it had little pearls and "those shiny things on it" (my dress had seed pearls on it with little iridescent sequins in places that made it look like fairy dust had been tossed randomly on the train, which was about 8 feet). This outdoorsman who couldn't even remember his own SON or WIFE at the end and who NEVER got to see a picture of any part of my wedding was able to talk about the seed pearls on his granddaughter's wedding dress as if he'd been reading Bride Magazine.

The S & H
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Reply to: #87408 by Sprite and Highlander
Apr 22, 2007 11:58am
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Quote was able to talk about the seed pearls on his granddaughter's wedding dress as if he'd been reading Bride Magazine.


This story sends shivers down my spine, but it also makes me want to see that dress! Got a picture you can post?

DebBee
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Reply to: #87436 by DebBee
Apr 22, 2007 12:08pm
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Quote This story sends shivers down my spine, but it also makes me want to see that dress! Got a picture you can post?


Several, but I'm not sure the finer details I'm talking about (color and the tiny pearls) will show up very well. Plus, I look like a dork! LOL

Let me find one to scan in and you can be the judge.