Our Story

Every wedding blog should have the tale of how the bride and groom came to be the bride and groom, don't you think?


John and I are college sweethearts. We first locked eyes over the mashed potatoes. He was the cute guy on the hot food line that my roommate and I drooled over every evening (to be fair, she noticed him first). I was the pretty girl he checked out every evening. But we never spoke aside from food requests until one day, when I opened a facebook message, and realized it was from him! We started talking online, and then a few evenings later my roommate decided to watch Final Destination. During a particularly gory scene, John invited me over to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Now, hindsight being 20/20, I realize going over to a random stranger's room at midnight, telling only a person who was half asleep where you would be, is a ridiculously bad idea. It turned out well, though. We talked all night. Things then took a turn for the worse: I was warming up to him, but he knew right away that he liked me. He came on really strong and freaked me out! I reluctantly agreed to go on a few dates with him (short dessert date, brought him to a sorority dance). But then he backed off, and when we both went back to our hometowns over summer break (amazingly, only 10 minutes apart) he won over my best friend, mom, and sister all in one day. I was done for.

We got engaged in March 2007. At the time, we were both poor college students and couldn't afford... well, anything! He bought me a beautiful blue topaz and silver ring, and slid it on my finger while I was still asleep. I woke up and he asked me to marry him! Keeping it quiet was so hard... we wanted to tell our parents first in person, but that meant not telling anyone about our engagement for 2 weeks when you want to shout it to the world.

I didn't expect the permanent ring for a long time, but we started looking right away. He had a surprise for me two months after the initial proposal, though. We spent the whole day looking at rings, then we went out for dinner and to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3 on opening night. I felt really piratey after the movie, so I thought nothing of it when he asked me to go to the docks of Lake Occaquon with him. We started walking on the docks, and then he told me he was sorry, but the day had been a lie. "Huh?" He then told me he'd already bought me a ring, got down on one knee, and asked me again! It was amazing!

Isn't it stunning? It wasn't one I pointed out, either! He did such a great job!

Did anyone else have more than one proposal?