So i realized i never told you guys the engagement story and now since i have some pictures to show i will share.
We got engaged Christmas Eve 2008, we did our normal Christmas Eve tradition which is go to J's grandparents house and eat supper with the family and then come to his parents house and open our gift to each other and with his parents. J and his sister (one of my BM) had went ring shopping about a month or so before and he had told me he had narrowed it down to two different rings but really wanted to wait till after Christmas that he had something special planned.
So i knew that i was not going to get a ring for Christmas. Also, we had both agreed that if he decided to get me a ring for Christmas not to get me anything else. So i had this idea that if i got other gifts that i would not get a ring. So we are opening gifts and i have about four gifts that i had not open and had already told myself no ring since there were gifts. I had gotten some bath stuff, a pair of earrings, a gift card and i was on my last gift. It was a perfume set from Victoria Secret (i love love love). Well i thought that was all that was in the bag and he said there is something else in there. So i pulled out tissue paper after tissue paper and what do i find but
this pretty little box. I thought it might be another pair of earring or a bracelet. So i unwrapped the box to find another box. I opened the box and there was the most beautiful ring (i am bias) i had ever seen. 
I looked up and J was on one knee. So right there in front of his mom, dad, and grandmother he proposed to me (tear). It was more then i could have ever asked for and it better then i could have ever pictured. So we immediately called my mom and dad who already knew he was going to ask. He was so sweet that he asked my parents for my hand first. Then we called his sister and brother in law and anyone else we could dial up.
So i knew that i was not going to get a ring for Christmas. Also, we had both agreed that if he decided to get me a ring for Christmas not to get me anything else. So i had this idea that if i got other gifts that i would not get a ring. So we are opening gifts and i have about four gifts that i had not open and had already told myself no ring since there were gifts. I had gotten some bath stuff, a pair of earrings, a gift card and i was on my last gift. It was a perfume set from Victoria Secret (i love love love). Well i thought that was all that was in the bag and he said there is something else in there. So i pulled out tissue paper after tissue paper and what do i find but
this pretty little box. I thought it might be another pair of earring or a bracelet. So i unwrapped the box to find another box. I opened the box and there was the most beautiful ring (i am bias) i had ever seen. 
I looked up and J was on one knee. So right there in front of his mom, dad, and grandmother he proposed to me (tear). It was more then i could have ever asked for and it better then i could have ever pictured. So we immediately called my mom and dad who already knew he was going to ask. He was so sweet that he asked my parents for my hand first. Then we called his sister and brother in law and anyone else we could dial up. So here's a little photo shoot of my ring that i love. Thanks Mandy for being such a good ring model and helping my sweet fiance pick out a beautiful ring. 
it's gorgeous, and we are SO almost ring twins =) except mine has princess-cut stones in the channel setting, not emerald cuts.
ReplyDeletei hear emerald cut stone girls are the classiest =)