We’d been dating for over a year and a half but been friends for about 5 years including the 6 months we dated in 2004. So by now she’s been kinda preparing for it, trying to look at my bank statements, checking my pockets for boxes and stuff like that. I knew I really wanted to surprise her so once I finally got the ring [it took 3 weeks to get the right band and mounting correct] I planned out a time where she’d be completely caught off guard.

I’ve been really stressed lately, taking on waaay too many projects and just getting hammered with papers and finals and stuff for school. I finally got to turn in all my papers yesterday morning after an all-nighter [well 2 hours of actual sleep]. I was wiped out, but she came over that afternoon for a bit and we hung out and had dinner before we went to our weekly bible study with some friends.

Now like I said, she’d been kinda checking for rings in my pockets and all over so I hid the ring in a guitar pick holder I have on my keychain and went trying to act as laid back and normal as possible.

When we went to leave I walked over to her side of the car to open her door and when I did, I asked her if she remembered that at this very spot we had our first kiss? She said yes, and then I told her that I loved her.

This is pretty huge because I never had told her that and decided that I wanted to wait to tell a girl that I loved her when I knew I’d be spending the rest of my life with her.

She looked at me, eyes wide open as I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me. She kept saying, “no no no no no” because she thought I was joking, but she saw the ring and I said, “I’m serious babe, I want to spend the rest of my life with you.” She grabbed the ring and we shared an enormous hug because we put the ring on and she said yes and that she loved me too!