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Story: As a die hard romantic, I am very fortunate to be marrying someone who loves the little things and the big surprises as much as I do. This has never been more evident than at our proposal. Under the impression that he was taking me to see a Shakespeare play in Chicago, I was excited for a fun day in the big city. Ethan told me that he had the whole day planned out for us, beginning with lunch reservations at a "very exclusive" restaurant. While we were walking out of the parking garage, he handed me an envelope which had stamped across it in red, "TOP SECRET" and I was told not to open it. Of course, I found this mildly infuriating since I don't like to be told what I can and cannot do. However, I played along and held the envelope as we walked toward our secret destination. Not the best at putting clues together apparently, I was still was oblivious as to what was coming. We walked up to a rather usual building with a red door and entered. Inside was a simple office and we were greeted by a man at a desk. This man appeared quite perplexed when we said we had reservations and insisted that this was not a restaurant. "But if it were..." the gentleman said with a smile, "you would have to prove you're not a spy." To prove our innocence, we were "scanned" as we were asked to perform silly acts. Specifically we had to stomp around like a bear and make bear noises. Little did I know that there was a camera recording our ridiculous actions... Suddenly, the bookcase slid over and we descended a stair case. At the bottom, we entered The Safe House (a spy themed restaurant if you hadn't yet picked up on the theme). Noon on a Saturday in Chicago meant that the restaurant was booked. Every chair was filled with individuals in trench coats, top hats, and fake mustaches. After we ordered appetizers and mimosas, Ethan led me to the middle of the restaurant to search for scavenger hunt clues in the restaurant menu- or so he let me believe initially. Rather, he finally let me open the "TOP SECRET" folder. Inside was a single sheet of paper. On it was a picture of Ethan, stamped over with the word "CONFIDENTIAL." The text included his name, job, marital status, known accomplices (his best friends), and crimes he was wanted for- my personal favorite was "corruption of the youth" since I call him my bad influence. As I finished reading, I looked up and as he dropped to one knee he asked, "your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take my hand in marriage." Mid-sobbing, I squeaked out a yes, put on the gorgeous Disney collection ring, and the whole restaurant began to applaud. At that moment, I looked out among the packed tables and finally noticed that he had secretly brought together almost 40 of our friends and family in spy costumes from across the country to be part of this life changing day. Even our respective best friends came from Hawaii and Pennsylvania to get to this funky little restaurant to be there for the best day of our lives thus far. Before my grandfather passed, he gave his blessing for Ethan and I. He loved spy and detective novels, so this was not only a fun and unique surprise, but also a nod to one of the men in my life whom I loved most. I cannot wait to marry the most kind, thoughtful, and over the top romantic man I have ever known. Any help with wedding costs we can receive is a blessing!

Story: My fiancé had been in the Navy for five long years. Throughout this time he was deployed for as long as 8 months at a time. Being without a person for that long is heartbreaking. Last week he signed his papers to officially be done serving. After that he took me to my parents house. After a long day of wine tasting and hanging out with the family, he got on one knee in front of everyone, and asked me to spend the rest of my life with him. I of course said yes. I am excited to never be apart from him ever again.

Story: My fiancée and I met at Ft. Wainwright, Alaska because we were both soldiers in the US Army. He PCSd to Ft. Hood while I was still stationed in AK. We did a long distance relationship for about 2 years. While he was deployed I gave birth to our son. I then PCSd to Germany where we both currently live. He proposed to me in Amsterdam with the help of some of our friends. I was totally shocked. We have been engaged about two years now and together for 6 yrs. I was hoping to have our wedding July 6, 2019 in my hometown of Rayne, Louisiana. I'm currently awaiting to see where I will be getting stationed next year, so it is hard to book a venue without knowing our next move. We are waiting to do it stateside because we want our family there. I am still in the US Army. We have 6 beautiful children. Anything to help us would be a blessing for our big day. Thank you.

Story: Mario and I are both active duty military servicing overseas. When we first met we didn’t get along very much. After a while, however, we got to know each other and realized that we had a lot in common. Eventually that commonality turned into interest and interest to like. We started dating a few months after really getting to know one another. Because we live in the UK traveling to places in Europe is fairly inexpensive. Mario would surprise me with weekend trips to Spain or Ireland and or other short distance trips that were cheap for the night. One day he asked me how I felt about taking a trip to Texas. At first I was reluctant. Texas has never been one of my favorite places and it would be so expensive to fly there. That’s why neither of us had been home in a long time. But he told me that he really missed his family and that he felt it was time that they met me. So I agreed and we took off for the states a few weeks later. We celebrated the new year and his birthday while we visited Mario’s home state. Near the end of the trip Mario said to me that he wanted to show me a place that he went to a lot as a kid. I said ok. He took me to a secret spot in the middle of downtown Houston. It was a secluded area full of trees. In the middle of the city but somehow far away from everything. I asked him what was so special about that particular spot. Mario told me that it was a place that he would go to when he was feeling down or alone. He said that it was full of bad memories and that it was always a bittersweet place to be. I asked him why on earth he wanted to show me such a sad place. I could see that he was nervous about something so I hugged him and said “it’s ok”. I thought that this bad place was giving him anxiety. He looked at me and said “I brought you here because I want to make new memories in this place. Good ones. I want to think of this place and smile.” Before I could ask him what he meant he was down on one knee with a ring in his hand. “Raven, will you please marry me?” He asked. I felt like I was in a dream. I asked “is this really happening?” just to be sure that the jet lag hadn’t caught up to me and caused me to spontaneously fall asleep. When he told me that this was really happening I suddenly couldn’t stand. I fell to my knees in front of him and covered him in kisses saying “yes” with every breath! Shortly after returning home we were both deployed so we have planned to have our wedding next summer. Thank you for reading.

Story: My fiance rented out a movie theatre and had all of our family and friends there in the audience. I walked into a pitch black movie theatre and sat down. My fiance made a video of all of our pics to music. In the video he had pics of my parents, grandmother, and his parents holding the engagement ring while Train's Marry Me played in the background. After the video, the lights turned on and he said, "In front of all our friends and family...will you marry me?" as he was down on one knee. There was not a dry eye in that movie theatre. It was the most amazing day of my life.

Story: En la noche de año nuevo del 2018 mi novio me propuso matrimonio despues de 10 años de estar juntos. Pense que este dia nunca hiba a llegar. Pero estaba equivocada. Todo comenzo asi : como todos los años nos reunimos en mi casa para habrir el año reunidos en familia. faltaban 5 minutos para las 12 cuando de repente aparece mi novio con una caja bastante grande ( quede sorprendida ) sonriente lo mire y le pregunte ; Amor, es para mi? Si — me respondió. Sentí que me ponía muy nerviosa, que el corazón me palpitaba cada vez más. Ábrelo cariño, necesitamos que veas lo que hay dentro. Dijo en voz baja. Habri el regalo pero me di cuenta que estaba dentro de 10 cajas (una dentro de otra) y la última caja la más pequeña tenia una nota y un anillo hermoso. Estaba llorando, riendome, la verdad que estaba tan nerviosa que solo recuerdo un, ¿quieres casarte conmigo? No lo podía creer! fue el mejor regalo en este momento de mi vida. Dije: “Sí, acepto” Estoy dispuesta y decidida a seguir manteniendo vivo nuestro amor, y nada me apetece más que compartir el resto de mis días sonriendo a tu lado. fue una noche inolvidable donde los fuegos artificiales iluminaban el cielo.

Story: My fiance and I love to walk the beach and find seaglass ("seaglass hunting" as we call it). On the first sunny day in April, Rob took me seaglass hunting on a nearby beach. As we walked along the beach, he said, "Honey, you missed one". When I turned around he was down on one knee the most beautiful ring I've ever seen and asked me to marry him.

Story: My finance (Mark) had always expressed me how important it was to take me to Colorado to go to the lake where his grandparents ashes were spread. Mark was extremely close to his grandfather and sacrificed many opportunities in his childhood to help care for him. Me being in the presence of them was something he spoke about often, he wanted us to meet. On May 4th I woke up in the most beautiful place I’ve ever traveled too, Estes Park, CO. The weather was beautiful and I was soaking it all up with my best friend. That morning Mark wanted to venture around the mountains. We traveled to that special place I’ve heard many stories about, with tears in our eyes and peace in our hearts we walked around the lake and I listed to mark tell stories of his grandfather and how he would be so proud of him and the love he would have for me. We stopped walking beside a stump and I stared out at the Beautifull scenery when doing so Mark got down on one knee and asked me if I would be his wife. Mark connected me to the special place in his heart and I couldn’t be more blessed to spend the rest of my life with this beautiful soul.

Story: It was Christmas of 2017, which is also our anniversary. We were going to see lights close to my house and I had a hunch that something was up. We got under this gazibo to take pictures and I was showing my mother how to take pictures. I turned around and he’s on his knee. I cried and said yes of course because I’ve been hinting at him a lot to do it. Haha

Story: Robert and I met via an online dating website and during our first phone conversation he vowed that we would go to San Diego Comic Con together, something I had always dreamed of doing. The next year he surprised me with a one day ticket to SDCC and we had an amazing time. The following year we got tickets for the whole weekend and were thrilled, we even decided to go all out and dress up. On our first day of the convention we met up with an old high school friend of Robert's who was also attending with her fiancee and who I was meeting for the first time. After the introductions Robert suggested that we get a picture under the iconic SDCC logo banner, which we did on our first year there as well. His friend Emily graciously agreed to take our picture and as we got in to position for the picture, Robert leaned over to whisper "I have a question to ask you, will you go to Comic Con with me for the rest of our lives?" Then he got down on one knee and opened the ring box and the whole convention hall began to clap for us. Of course I said yes!

Story: My wonderful fiancée proposed to me at a resort on the beach which is a very meaningful place for us. He took here for our first date and this place has always been served as neutral ground whenever we would have a fight. I would always say "just meet me at Newport " and once we would get there nothing else mattered but our love for each other. So he reserved a dinner for us which was "delayed". We waited for a whole at the hotel bar and all the while I was so upset that the restaurant was not sitting us at our reserved time. He then tells me after a while of waiting "Why don't we go wait in our room? " I was so surprised because I had only imagined we would be there just for dinner and going home. Needless to say I was very happy and practically prancing to the elevators. Once we got to the room and he opened the door, there were rose petals and candles making the most beautiful pathway into the room. There was a table set up with seafood dinner for two and a bottle of Dom Perignon on ice. There was another table with the champagne flutes and a delectable towers of appetizers. And then the rose petals make their way to another table that had straight candles that spelled out "Will You Marry Me?" He got down on one knee right beside the words and asked "Love of my life, will you marry me?" And through many tears of joy came out a soft whimpering "Yes baby, yes". Needless to say it was the most romantic and most wonderful night of my life.