The Engagement
December 2, 2007 bohlken
Chris and I are finally engaged! I couldn’t be happier blah, blah, blah. I hate those boring sentimental ways of saying things so I will spare you from that. It was a perfect way to get engaged though and I wouldn’t have wanted any other way. When Chris and I first met my mom got a puppy named Shasta from up north. So we have been taking Shasta to the beach since the beginning of our relationship. We went ring shopping a month before this event and I had told Chris that he had to ask my father before he asks me. So I found out later that Chris went to my father’s house for a week straight trying to ask him but he was never home. The day of our engagement we went to breakfast with my father (how convenient) and I guess Chris asked my Dad’s permission while I was in the bathroom. That same day we went to the dog beach with Shasta. It was a very overcastted day and we kept walking back and forth along the beach. Finally, Shasta and I were so tried I was ready to go home. Chris wanted me to take a picture of Shasta and him before we left and he handed me the camera in the case. As I opened the camera case I saw the ring box and he kneeled on his knee with his dog by his side and proposed. He said that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me and would I marry him? Of course I said yes and as I turned around and looked at the ocean the sun came out and shined upon us for just a moment and then it disappeared again behind the clouds. What a hallmark moment. The engagement might be short or might be long depending on how much money we can come up with. We have been together so long it doesn’t matter how long the engagement will be. I want a simple wedding and my gay guy friend said, “You are allowed to have a simple wedding but that doesn’t mean that it has to be tacky or I’m not coming.” Chris in trying to make this 70′s rock band come from Vegas and that is a whole other blog. I just am so lucky to have Chris and our wedding will be fun and not tacky!
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1. Erin&hellip | December 6, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Congratulations! So happy for you both! And do not listen to Chris about the Santa Barbara business, people will come to your wedding no matter where it is and if you want it in Santa Barbara, do it!