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Story: My fiance completely surprised me. I thought I was headed to a work convention on A&M campus. When I got there, he was standing under the Century Tree which is a huge tradition at A&M. If you walk under the tree together, it is said you will be together forever. It was a wonderful day. He included my family and his family.

Story: I met my fiance Alex online, through Facebook actually. I decided to try online dating after a hard breakup. We had been friends for awhile. I initially accepted his friend request because we had a ton of mutual friends. We connected and both showed an interest in each other and started dating from there. The connection was instant. One thing that I love about Alex is his personality and his maturity. He said from the moment we met I was going to be his wife. Fast forward to seven months later he planned a dinner with his family. He told me it would be a dinner to celebrate his late grandmother's birthday, not realizing I was actually helping him plan my own engagement. He talked to my sister about the proposal and got my family's blessing. Everyone was in on it. My sister had told me to invite different people so both of our families and friends could meet. I was clearly naive about the situation. The people I invited had already knew about the proposal. Nothing clicked that something was going on. I was totally clueless. We had dinner at Cooper's Hawk in Oak Park, IL in the Chicagoland area. It's one of my favorite restaurants because they have amazing wine. Everyone arrives, we start to mingle and introduce ourselves, and there's glasses of wine being passed around. It was a great time. After dinner we were finally having dessert. Everyone else was getting chocolate cake except me. Alex was messing around and grabbed my hand and took one of my rings off of my hand that I had on my ring finger. I'm still trying to figure out why I didn't have any cake and the waitresses comes back with a plate with the words written "Will you marry me?" with a beautiful chocolate dessert. I read it and Alex got down on one knee and proposed in front of our families with a gorgeous ring. Of course I cried and said yes. It was a perfect proposal and a moment that I will never forget, which I can't anyway because it was recorded and posted all over Facebook. It almost went viral. Haha So now we are set to wed July 14 of 2019 and I can't wait. And that's our engagement story.

Story: Both single parents, I have 2 boys and he has one son. We both have children with special needs, my son has a rare blood disorder called LCH while his son has autism. Needless to say our bond runs deep and life isn't always easy! The engagement was a huge surprise! Phil planned an entire trip to Punta Cana which he said was a trip for my birthday! Phil is horrible at planning but he did an amazing job! On May 19th we went on a four wheeler excursion to Macao Beach. On this trail we got filthy but it was fun lol. We arrived at Macao which was one of the most pristine beaches I have ever seen, while there a photographer was taking photos of us and another couple that joined us for the trip. The photographer directed Phil to get on one knee and told me to sit on his knee for a picture. While I was sitting Phil was struggling to pull out the ring. I wasn't paying attention to anything besides the photographer. Once the picture was taken, when I got up Phil remained on his knee holding the most beautiful rose gold ring shaped as a crown and asked me to forever be his Queen. Phil made his Beyonce an Feyonce!!

Story: My fiance and I had been dating for about a year and a half before we recently got engaged. It has been a wonderful time of getting to know each other and learning to make time for each other. We are both Christians and agreed early on to follow things the traditional way. We live about 10 minutes from each other but have decided to follow the 'courting' route of abstinence and waiting before we live together. We are both professionals as well as single parents from previous relationships, so have had to really work on making US work. It's been hard work but has been amazing and totally worth it! We had begun some initial conversation about possibly getting married, but I put on the brakes and told him I just wasn't quite ready for serious conversations about it yet. Those conversations happened at the beginning of this year (around January). We spoke little about it and then focused mainly on his sister's wedding that we were flying down to Mexico for in June. Both he and his daughter and my daughter were in it, so it was so much fun preparing and seeing it all come together. The night before we left to come home, he wanted to have dinner with me as a date while our kids were with his family. Up to that point, I had decided I really wanted to communicate to him during the trip, that I was feeling better about things, and was ready to move forward in engagement plans! During shopping one day, we were looking at carved Mayan calendars and he really wanted to get one. He decided not to, but I went back and got it since he rarely buys anything for himself. Anyway, I brought that with me to our date dinner and found out it was a beautiful, sunset romantic dinner on the beach. Complete with multiple courses and our own waiter! It was absolutely perfect. We talked and laughed and at dessert I pulled out his gift and began talking to him about how I have been praying and working on myself and so in love with him that it would be amazing to be his forever. I was nervous so it came out jumbled and mixed up I'm sure, but next thing I know he is kissing me and is down on 1 knee with ring in hand!! I was so surprised and joyous I covered my eyes and literally began sobbing. Tears are even coming to my eyes now thinking about it. I was completely blown away. After I calmed down about 10 minutes later, I realized I never answered and all I could do was smile and nod my head yes. It was the most amazing moment of my life. We spend more time talking on the beach and praying and then went to tell his family who of course already knew :) The next few days were full of even more surprises as I found out that he had bought the ring back in February and already called my parents, brother, best friend, etc. to get their blessing! He was simply waiting for me and for the right time. God works in such an amazing way, I feel forever in gratitude to both of them. Thanks for reading :)

Story: How many people can say that they almost died during The Proposal? After 11 years of dating, Matt was planning on taking me to Newport to propose, but he couldn’t wait two more days! He had just picked up the ring that day! Instead, he was so excited that when I went downstairs to get the laundry, he got down on one knee and waited. I came up with a basket full of clean laundry, and when I walked through the door, there Matt was, holding the most gorgeous ring! I was so startled, that I dropped the basket, threw my hands up, and started falling backwards down the stairs! Matt jumped up as I flung my hands back in an attempt to save myself, and my wrists smashed into the door frame, bruising instantly. Matt somehow grabbed me around the waist and pulled me back up. The force of him pulling me caused me to fall on him, which resulted in him falling back into the television set...which wobbled and began to fall! Matt rolled me out of the way and ended up almost crushed when the TV fell!  What a night! And yet, the happiest :)

Story: 10 years ago, I walked into a friend's house and was unaware that I was going to meet the love of my life. I met my fiance, Pat, and we remained friends for years. Fast forward 10 years and I am living with my best friend, along with our puppy who we rescued. One Friday night I ran upstairs to get ready and as I am opening up the bedroom door, I am greeted by our puppy with a shirt that says "will you marry my daddy." I look further out to see my best friend on one knee. Our story is what I read about and saw in movies, but something I never expected in real life.. truly a dream come true!

Story: Our story is not a traditional love story. I call it a miracle love story. My Fiance' and I were co-workers. Our relationship started out casually until we found out we were expecting. Our beautiful daughter arrived September of 2017. During my pregnancy my fiance'and I got to know each other and finally moved in together before the arrival of our daughter. We fell in love with each other while raising our baby and meeting each other's families during the holidays and special occasions. Then on June 13th, 2018 we were home and I heard him say to my eldest ( 14yrs old) daughter from a previous relationship, "Hey you know I love your mom and I love you and your sister and I wanted to know if it would be okay if I married your mother"? My daughter replied "yes" ( smiling a big Koolaid smile). Then he came over to me got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. It was the best surprise, although we did speak about getting married many times, I didn't expect to be engaged this soon and I'm very excited about it.

Story: It was a page right out of a Nicholas Sparks book.... I planned for a surprise engagement on a pier in Wilmington, NC. I am currently in school and wanted to “celebrate finishing my first year of graduate school” when really I was planning the surprise of a lifetime. She looked beautiful and was ready to go to the pier for dinner. I took her out to the pier and asked her to turn for a picture and look off into the distance. When she was looking out to the sea I dropped to a knee and waited for her to turn around... and when she did turn, she was so surprised and happy! Additionally, I had arranged for both of our families to be secretly travel from Cincinnati to the beach to surprise her AGAIN! She was so happy the families could witness the moment. It was an amazing moment for all and I will never forget the look on her face when I was professing my love to her and asking her to be my forever.

Story: A few days before New Years Eve, Lijo frantically tells me that he has thousands of unused points left on his credit card and needs to use them all up before the new year or it will expire. He further explains that he found an event at the Willis Tower Sky Deck called, “Pie in the Sky." Appetizers, champagne, and dinner will also be served. I, without hesitation said, "Yeah, of course, if it’s free I'm there." Minutes later, he forwards me an email confirmation of the event that has all the details. (This was a fake email he created to throw me off. He is so sneaky!) On December, 30 2017 (the night of the proposal), my family and I went to dinner before hand. I thought it was weird that we were eating right before the event but I figured everyone was starving so I didn’t think much of it. (In hindsight, there were about a million clues that should have alerted me to the fact he was going to propose but my judgment was clouded due to his hectic work schedule). After dinner, we walk over to the Willis Tower. My brother-in-law asks one of the gentleman at the counter how to get to the, "Pie in the Sky," event. Over his walkie-talkie, the gentleman says, “Thelma is here for HER EVENT.” (I thought it was really strange that the man at the counter said we were here for MY event, but yet again, I didn’t think much of it). As we're riding the elevator up to the 103rd floor, I text Lijo to see what he's up to. He said he had a rough day at work and is about to crash into bed. I text him an "I love you and" a "goodnight" before I put my phone away. When we reach the 103rd floor, the area is really dark, like super dark, and there’s garbage everywhere. I thought to myself, “What kind of party is this? Where are all the people and why haven’t they started cleaning up?” I hear the man with the walkie-talkie say, “We’re about to turn the corner. Heading your way.” I look back and see my family lagging behind me. I tell them to pick up their pace, but they just start walking even slower. (AGAIN, I thought all of this was so weird but I kept ignoring my paranoia). We finally turn the corner and as I’m walking I see trash on all the ledges except for one. One of the ledges is beautiful. It's brightly lit, has bright red rose petals, and tea light candles. I also see the back of a man with a tan coat on. I thought, “Noooo, there’s no way that’s Lijo. He’s home about to sleep.” I turn back to look at my family and they’re nowhere to be seen. I look at the man with the walkie-talkie and he has a huge grin on his face. We get even closer to the ledge and the man with the tan coat finally turns around to reveal himself. It’s LIJOOO. I immediately start crying. I give him a hug and the first thing I say to him is, “You’re supposed to be at home sleeping.” We both start laughing and he begins to say the most beautiful things to me. He gets down on one knee and asks, “Will you do me the honor of being my wife?” December 30, 2017 was a dream come true. It has been one of the greatest moments of our lives and we cannot wait to start our life as a married couple!

Story: We were in Florida for our two year anniversary. I had bought tickets for a dinner yacht cruise. He took me out to the front of the boat and proposed to me while we were still out on the water. It was the most romantic thing that has ever happened to me.