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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!

catherine spidle & grant harris

We were having our daughter’s 2nd birthday party at our house and both of our families were there.  When we were through helping our daughter open her presents everyone was sitting and talking when Grant got everyone’s attention and thanked them for coming and he said “there’s another reason I wanted everyone here today… I wanted everyone to be here when I asked Catherine to marry me…”  and he turned to me and proposed!  I said YES!

jamie aucoin & james scott/ to wed 02/14/09

James and I had been dating for about 10 years before he finally proposed to me.  We starting dating when I was 14 and he was 15 and were inseparable from then on.  After he graduated from high school, he got accepted at SMU in Dallas and would be moving the following August.  Everyone told me that our relationship wouldn’t work out and that things would change when he moved.  We both decided to stay together and just see if we could make it work and it actually brought us closer together.  After he graduated from college, he moved home and we moved in together and everything was perfect.  In January he told me that we were going to fly to Dallas and finish cleaning out their old house so they could rent it out and I really thought nothing of it.  We stayed in a nice suite at Hotel ZaZa and James is a romantic so I thought nothing of it.  Well the next day we had planned to go eat dinner at a nice restaurant and I had forgotten my hairspray (not a big deal) and he was adamant about going to the store and buying me some hairspray, and meanwhile I went and got a pedicure.  When I walked back into our suite, he had the lights off and there were candles every where and he was on one knee and he asked me to marry him.  The reason he made such a big deal about getting me hairspray was because he was running around town trying to find some rose petals and it was a perfect excuse to get away from the hotel.  It was absolutely perfect and I can’t wait to marry the man of my dreams.