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robert whitfield & tiffany koonce/ engaged 9.17.09
We met around 6 or 7 years ago at the house of a mutual friend. We briefly hung out for a month or two but that was it. Five years later on the down the road, we talked and decided to go out for drinks to catch up. Things just worked out this time. Our engagement took place in Michigan. We drove up to Michigan with Robert's parents for a week long salmon fishing trip. He had told me months before that when he proposed to me, it would not be anywhere around home so I was convinced it would be on this trip. Robert's parents even made it completely obvious the whole drive up the Michigan that there was something in the glove box. They didn't realize that I was catching on. So I waited the entire trip trying to guess when and where it would take place. The day before we left, we went to this little island called Mackinac Island. I glanced at his pockets and didn't see a box in them so I basically started to get depressed that my proposal would not be on this trip. So I gave up worrying it about. So we went to this island where no vehicles are allowed and you walk, ride bikes, or in horse carriages to get around the island. It was BEAUTIFUL. We went to a little butterfly house while we were there. You go into this house and they have a green house attached to the house. You go inside and there are butterflies everywhere. They even land all over you. Inside the butterfly house was a big iron chair shaped like a butterfly chair. I told Robert I wanted him to take a picture with me sitting on the chair so I handed his mother my camera so she could take a picture of us. Well Robert just would not turn around and come take a picture. So I sternly told him to come take a picture with me RIGHT NOW. At that moment, I saw his left hand drop with a small baggie in it and my heart dropped. I thought at that very moment .. "Oh my god, my ring was in that bag and he is about to propose." He then turned around and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. His mother got every moment on my camera. I started crying uncontrollably. His mother finally chimed in that I had to either say yes or no. So I grabbed my ring and said yes. It took a second for him to get up off his knee cause I left him down there so long. It was the perfect engagement and it's a trip that we are now taking every year at the same time!
alisa & rick
We had planned my birthday party at the Outlaw Drinking Club on MLK where by fiancee's, Rick, band was playing (Altar Ego). He had written a new song and the band had practiced it for two weeks. He dedicated the song to me and called it "Forever." I had heard the song before, but on this night he changed the ending. On the last verse, he walked out to the dance floor in front of me and sang the words, "Sometimes people say the word forever, but never know what it means. But you give me love and forever, like a king and queen, like you and me." Then he paused and came to me and got down on his knee and sang, "I have one question for you, knowing you are my life, I have one question for you, will you marry me and be my wife?" He had been holding the ring behind his microphone, and pulled it out like a magician and presented it to me. He was trembling so, I don't know how he managed to hang onto it. I had to hold his hand to help him put the ring on my finger. All my friends were there since it was also my birthday party and one of them grabbed my camcorder and recorded the happy event. We are getting married on Oct. 30th, a little more than a year later, and having a 70s/disco wedding, complete with lava lamp centerpieces and mood ring favors. Everyone is going to dress in 70s attire and we are looking so forward to it.
courtney pitchford & matt davis/ engaged 2.12.09
Our story began in 7th grade at Lumberton Middle School when we had a computer class together. Matt thought I was cute and told himself, "...one day I’m going to date that girl." Little did he know that I would ask him to go to Twirp in 9th grade, and although we were still too young to date, we became ’boyfriend’ and ’girlfriend’ that night, February 12, 2000.
Throughout high school we were inseparable. Matt wrote me sweet notes and gave me candy before Friday night football games to wish me luck before my Raiderette (dance team) performances. He cheered me on at my track and cross country meets, and was always surprising me with creative gifts. One Valentines Day Matt made me a teddy bear out of his practice football shirt, and after Christmas one year he melted a set of candles his mom had gotten as a gift in a pot on the kitchen stove and carved "Matt loves Courtney" in the giant "candle" (It’s 9 years later and his mom still finds wax in the kitchen.). I was Matt’s biggest fan on the sidelines at his football games. I would call to wake him up every morning before school, and he would sing "Good Morning Beautiful" to me. My spot in the Raiderette room was covered with pictures of us, and I looked forward to our weekend dates consisting of dinner at Casa Ole’ and a movie. We attended church at Cathedral in the Pines where we were very involved in the youth group.
After high school, I left for Evangel University, and we parted ways. However, we remained friends until Matt moved to Springfield to attend Evangel our sophomore year of college, and we began to date again. That summer it seemed that our lives were going different directions, and we broke up for what we both thought was forever. Yet, like they say, your first love always holds a special place in your heart.
We began to be friends again toward the end of last summer. Around late November, we began to talk more often, and after a while, we realized that we never wanted to be apart again. Matt soon began planning how he would ask me to marry him, and it turned out perfect! On February 12, 2009, without telling me, he flew out to Virginia Beach, where I attend law school. He timed it perfectly, and I was in class when he arrived. He had the shuttle pick him up from the airport, take him to buy 9 roses (since it was 9 years from the day we first started dating) and drop him off at a beautiful pavilion in the courtyard by the school’s library. In the mean time, I was cooking dinner for my friends, when I received a phone call that a shuttle would be picking her up in 4 minutes. The shuttle picked me up, where the 9 roses were waiting for me, and took me to the library. The driver told me to get out and start walking. Nervous, I got out, and quickly spotted Matt waiting for me. As soon as we reached one another, Matt got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. Through the tears, I managed to say YES to my true love!!
desiree martines & tyler hays/ engaged 8.23.08
Both of our families were in on it. My niece, Stella, was having her 2nd birthday celebration at Crystal Beach and my family rented a cabin for the weekend. Tyler's parents were at their beach house and own a golf cart to go back-and-forth on the beach. Tyler took my sister, Ashley, and I for a ride and mid-way through the ride she said she wanted to be dropped off. After we dropped her off, we continued our ride down the beach to the spot where we first met. We ended up not being able to find it, but we got close to it and Tyler looked at me and said, "You know you mean the world to me..." he reached into his pocket and pulled out a box and opened it and there was a beautiful ring inside. He dropped down to his knee and put the ring on my finger and asked me to marry him. I burst into tears and said "YES!!" We are planning a destination wedding in Playa del Carmen, Mexico on August 1, 2009.
nicole arnold & daniel andrus/ 02.14.08
Dan & I met in our junior year of high school. He was 16, I was 15. We had several classes together so we saw each other all day long. We became best friends. When were about 19/20, we told each other that if the neither of us was married by the time we were 30, we'd marry each other. 8 years later, he asked me out on a real date. We went to our favorite restaurant, Carrabbas. It was around Christmas time and he surprised me with a diamond necklace! I was shocked....I mean, this was Dan...my best friend...acting all....romantic. (I just bought him some chopsticks and a book on how to make sushi...lol) We knew from that moment on that we were definitely more than just friends.
Our living situations changed that next February and we both needed to find a new apartment....so....we made a HUGE decision to move in together. We had been roommates before right after high school, but it was with 4 other people and we were just friends. But now, we were a couple...and moving in together was a whole other ball game. I learned a LOT of stuff about him that I guess I just hadn't noticed before....like how NEAT he is! He totally makes me feel like the slob. o'well. It works. haha.
Exactly a year later, it was valentines day, and we were off to our favorite restaurant again, Carrabbas. We had a nice dinner and came home. (Of course the thought ran through my mind..."Maybe he'll propose". But once we left and came home I had made up my mind that he was definitely not going to. We crawled into bed....he faced me...then started asking me funny questions. "Do you love me? (duh) Are you sure you can stand to live with me for the rest of your life? (of course goof ball) Will you Marry me? (Huh?) I rolled over and he pulled the ring out from under the covers! (AAAAHHHH! Yes!!!) Needless to say I could NOT go to sleep after that!
lynn zenkner & devan muir
Devan had invited Lynn on a beach picnic with his family. She had previously told Dev about a dog she wanted and the name she would give it. While at the picnic a couple comes walking down the beach with a dog just like the one Lynn wanted. They start talking to the couple and Lynn bends down to pet the dog, meanwhile, she notices the name on the dog tag is the same name she had in mind. She reaches down to look at the other side of the tag and it says, "will you marry me?". She said yes and now they live in California and just had their first baby girl, Charlie Noelle.
brittany farmer & andrew stuchlik
It was the day before Valentine's Day, and we'd made plans to celebrate the holiday that day so we could avoid the overly crowded restaurants the day of. We made dinner plans at Pappadeaux and we ate, talked, and really enjoyed the quiet atmosphere. Well, when we got home there was this huge box on our kitchen table and I asked him what it was. (I wasn't expecting anything big because we had agreed that we were only going to spend 100 dollars each on each other this Valentine's Day. I kept telling him all week that I didn't want to have a limit because I knew that some how his present would surpass mine greatly. All I bought him was 5 t-shirts and some gag gifts. Nothing really all THAT special.) So I was shocked at how big the box was! Especially since I knew that the gift inside needed to be under 100 dollars. Well it wasn't.
A little inside story before I go on.. I am completely obsessed with buying music on i-Tunes and several times I've drained my bank account in order to do so. He always made fun of me because I cared so much about buying the songs, t.v. shows, and movies.
Well, when I opened the box...there were about twenty five 10 dollar i-Tunes gift cards and a card. The card was really very sweet! Since I am an avid believer that when a greeting card is purchased, the purchaser should write something in the card besides their name, he did just that. He wrote a letter and stuck it inside of it and after the greeting card words were read he signed it, "don't complain, you have the letter." And put a heart beside it.
The letter read:
Dear Loved One:
There is no word in any language that can express the amount of love I have for you. If there was, I would scream it at the top of my lungs from every rooftop imaginable. I am so happy that we are together, every day, and every night, every second of every minute and every minute of every hour. Every time I gaze into your eyes, I feel something. Something so inexpressible by auditory means, that the only thing I can do is smile, at the feeling of chill bumps covering my entire body. Brittany, I love you. There's nothing complex about that, yet nothing simple about the degree that I do love you. So, as you close this letter, remember that you and you alone are the only person for me.
Always,
Andrew
(Awe, I have tears in my eyes typing it.)
He was standing over me, watching me open the gift and the card and when I turned away from the table to hug him and tell him thank you... there he was, down on his knee, eyes filled with joyful tears, and trembling. I felt myself buckle a bit in the knees and immediately just started shaking my head in disbelief. He proceeded to say, "Brittany, you make me so happy and I enjoy every minute spent with you. I love waking up next to you, and I want to be the one to hold your hand as we grow old. Will you please continue to make me the happiest man in the world and do me the honor of being my wife?" A tear rolled down his cheek. I was still shaking my head and crying at this point. He looked at me strangely, and said: "So, No?" I started laughing because I realized I hadn't said anything and my head was still shaking in the "no" motion. I said, "Of course I will Andrew!" He put the beautiful, radiant cut ring on my finger and we hugged and kissed.
Our wedding is planned for December 2009 or February 2010. We're waiting until we graduate college first!
