First, I just wanted to say how excited I am to be doing
this with my best friend! And I wanted to add how much I loved reading her
engagement story; it gets more romantic each time I hear it :)
My engagement story began in March of this year. The following
months after Christmas were a little blah for my Fiancé and I. Fortunately, at
the beginning of March things were starting to look up. I had just started a new job, we both had
birthdays coming up and best of all we were planning my dream vacation to California
in June! With everything that had been going on we decided to book a getaway
weekend to a resort about an hour outside of the city for the end of April, it
was going to be our joint birthday present to each other!
The excitement for our trip to California was killing us so
it was nice to have something to look forward to that didn’t seem like a year
away (I`m dramatic haha). We booked an ocean view room, made dinner
reservations and ordered flowers, chocolate and wine for the room. For
approximately 3 weeks we were extremely excited about this trip, it was pretty
much all we talked about…heck I even had my outfits planned out for each day! BUT being the ridiculous, anal, budget freak I
am I analysed our finances and was getting doubts about spending so much money
when we were about to go on a huge trip in 2 months!
During the next week I mentioned my concerns to my Fiancé
insisting we should save our money. But being the loving, sweet guy he is he
would tell me how much we deserve it and would remind me of the amazing time we
were about to have, so I pushed my thoughts aside. Unfortunately, this feeling never went away.
It was now the beginning of April, Easter Monday to be exact, and I was off to
have lunch with my previous co-workers. After a great weekend and then a great
lunch I was driving home and just felt like I had to cancel this trip, it was
weighing on my mind too heavily and I didn’t want to be stressed and later
regret not having the money for California.
When I got home, I sat down with my Fiancé and told him how
I felt and that I was going to cancel. He gave in but was devastated, more than
I had expected him to be. I went off to the bedroom to read "The Hunger
Games" and he stayed in the living room clearly upset (it still breaks my
heart)! About half an hour later he came into the bedroom, he went in the
closet and came back out. He got down on one knee and said some of the most
beautiful words I have ever heard and then finished it with "Will you marry me?"
I was stunned, my jaw dropped and between the tears all I could get out was:
Are you joking? Is this really happening? Do you mean it? I said yes, we
snuggled and then he explained how he was going to propose on our weekend away.
He didn`t know when his next opportunity would be and he just couldn`t wait any
longer for another moment. I felt terrible for cancelling our trip but if I was
expecting the proposal I would have assumed it would be in California!
It was extremely spur of the moment, very us and will be one
of the most memorable days of our lives :)
Xoxo
Leanne
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