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Story: My fiancé and I met my Senior year of high school (he’s a year younger). We hit it off immediately, but it never fully worked out. It was 4 and a half years of on and off and being best friends to more than friends to nothing. I always knew I loved him though and that we were meant for so much more. After not talking for almost a year, we reconnected and it all just finally clicked. We have now been together for 2.5 years (officially) and we love nature. My fiancé knew he wanted to propose in nature, but he also knew I’d want to look cute and have pictures of the moment (haha). My family acted like we were doing our family pictures at a park and I showed up at Ault Park in Cincinnati (so pretty) and he comes out of hiding in the flowers and bushes and asks me. Our families were there and it was just such a beautiful setting. He’s the reason I truly believe that if it’s meant to be, it will be and God’s timing is so perfect ❤️

Story: Where do I begin? I've been with my high-school sweetheart for the last 9 1/2 years. Since age 16! He was the football player and I was the dancer. His proposal was more than I could ever imagined! The day started with getting my nails done and lunch with my fiance's mom. When I got back home, my fiance says "you're leaving in 20 minutes". He hands me a beautifully typed up yellow note card that had a clue written on it to begin a scavenger hunt. He remembered me saying when we were 17 that I have always wanted to do a big scavenger hunt. So I begin. Each stop was somewhere we hung out at when we first started dating in high school. Each stop also had either his brother or a friend of his waiting to hand me the next yellow clue card. After 4 stops, one card hinted at my hair dresser. I had been trying to get in with my hair dresser for a month but she kept being "super booked". All part of my fiances plan. So I went to the salon where she was ready to color and style my hair (all already paid for by my fiance). As she's doing my hair, she pulls out another clue card for me. It had the sweetest message that ended by saying in the back room there were 6 new yellow dresses with shoes, jewelry, make-up, etc. waiting for me and that a chauffeur would be there at 6 pm to pick me up from the salon. He turned it into a walk-in closet! So I got my hair done and got all dolled up in my brand new outfit! The chauffer (one of his friends) picks me up and we drive for an hour. I wore sunglasses that you couldn't see ANYTHING out of so I had no idea where we were going. Then the car stops and someone opens my door to walk with me. Still not being able to see, I could feel that the terrain changed and wondered where in the world I was. Then my sunglasses were removed. I was standing on the 25 yard line of our high school football field staring at my fiance waiting for me at the 50 yard line. He created an aisle of yellow balloons to lead my walk to him. He had a photographer on the field too! He told me the sweetest words I've ever been told and got down on one knee. I said YES! As we kissed and hugged, I heard cheering from the sidelines. I look over and all our family and closest friends were there! I had no clue they were on the sidelines the whole time because they were so quiet and my eyes were only on my fiance. The details were mind-blowing! If you couldn't guess by how many times I mentioned yellow, yellow is my favorite color. On the field leading to him, there were 10 bundles of balloons with 4 balloons each. My birthday is 10/4! He even had the date he proposed on the scoreboard on the football field. So special! My favorite number is 14 and his is 18. He proposed July 14, 2018. He made it soooo worth the 9 1/2 year wait! I'm the luckiest girl on the planet!

Story: August 20th, was one of the most perfect days of my life. It was pretty normal. I had some errands to run, last minute school stuff to get together, a little shopping, a nice local lunch, a quick trip to the parkway to enjoy the overlooks and being in the middle of a cloud, a lot of grocery shopping, and then a relaxing night at our adorable apartment. Nothing really crazy out of the ordinary just a perfect day with Austin and good company. When we got home, our friends began cooking their dinner while Austin and I sang, danced, hugged, kissed, and overall had a fun time just acting like fools in our room. Then as we were holding each other I noticed Austin starting to get down on one knee. I immediately started nodding my head and crying and hugging him. My best friend had given me the privilege to be his fiancée and eventually his wife. I’ve never been so honored. I had actually been teasing him all day about proposing and later I found out that he had planned to do it that day. I had been cracking jokes and bugging him about it all day! Every ordinary day is special if it's with the right person. That's what our story is about, and that's what it will stay about. We're lucky to have the opportunity of loving one another at such a young age. We don't just get to grow old together, we basically get to go through the entire life cycle together!

Story: We were walking on the broad walk at the beach at night, and we heard fireworks going off so we walked over to watch. As the grand finale was going off my boyfriend said “This is a sign..” I was taking pictures of the fire worms when he told me to turn around.  He was on one knee holding the most beautiful ring.

Story: Living halfway across the country from my parents made it so that my boyfriend had to call my dad. He snuck into my phone, got the number and called him while we were at a children's birthday party. That night, he took me to Helen Hunt Falls and proposed in the middle of the waterfall. He told me how he knew it was important that I wanted my father's blessing and that he had called him. He wasn't planning on doing it tonight, but rather waiting until he met my parents two months later, but he was so overwhelmed with our day that he proposed right there in the waterfall.

Story: My engagement story is actually not the typical story. My fiancé had planned on proposing on our anniversary, which is 8/23/18. This will be our 5 year anniversary, and we had been planning a trip to the mountains to get away. He had planned on proposing to me next to a waterfall after a short hike. However, this did not happen. My fiancé ended up getting into an accident and fracturing his back. This meant that we had to cancel our anniversary plans. He has been out of work and unable to pay his bills. Because of this he proposed while he was in the hospital. It was a sad, yet happy, and intimate moment. He felt absolutely terrible for having to propose in that way. But the conversation that surrounded the proposal and the tears that were cried made it so intimate that I wouldn’t change it, even for the most thought out proposal. Now that we are engaged I want to be able to give him the best wedding that I possibly can.

Story: Taylor (my now husband) and I love to travel together! This past March we were visiting Dever, Colorado, a long time destination on our list of places to visit. We had been driving up the steep trails at Rocky Mountain National Park in northern Colorado, eventually reaching the summit point of frozen Bear Lake, 10,000 feet up and 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Taylor is used to this weather, as he was born and raised in Canada, I, on the other hand, was born and raised in Florida, so I did not love the freezing temperature. Taylor had to persuade me to walk out onto the ice in the howling wind but asked me to trust him and took my hand. When we got to the middle of the lake, I did not expect him to go down on one knee and ask me to continue trusting him for the rest of our lives. I was so surprised! After I said yes we heard cheering and two people were waving at us from the woods we entered through. They told us that they had seen the proposal while they were hiking and quickly got out their cameras! Five short months later we were married in Orlando, Florida. We are now living in Europe for our first year as a married couple!

Story: Kevin and I met when we were 17. We tried dating a few times, but neither of us were ever in the right place at the right time. That all changed when we turned 31. Through social media, we reconnected and ended up traveling together. We fell in love, but our relationship was long-distance. A year and a half later, I gave up my job and moved to be with him. We are more in love than ever! In June, Kevin surprised me by taking me to a vineyard that I had always wanted to go to. It was on the land that my ancestors lived on. He told me that our cellar tour began in the gazebo. When I walked in, he proposed. I turned around, and he had our families waiting to congratulate us. It was the best day of my life!

Story: Gregory and I dated in 1998 and again in 2007. The timing wasnt right either time. The 3rd time was finally the charm. We visited my family in upstate NY for Christmas. Greg asked my parents for my hand in marriage and tried to figure out where to propose. It was cold and snowing so he got down on one knee in the small town hotel that we were staying in. That was 7 years ago. Due to unfortunate circumstances, we have yet to tie the knot but hope to do so within the next year!

Story: I proposed on the beach in Westhampton, NY. I surprised her, went to her home and woke her up at 6:30 AM. I told her we had to take a ride, drove her to the beach and we started walking along the water, where I had a beach display already prepared with "Victoria Will you Marry me?" in the sand with candles in a heart around it. She was shocked! Cute little video to prove it! ha ha

Story: My fiance and I were dating on and off for 12 years. He was never ready to commit. I told him that I was moving on and that he either commits and leave for good. He wished me luck with my life even though we had a cruise scheduled in a few weeks. A few days later we were talking/crying hugging each other and he asked my son to pass him a box. My son immediately started screaming and when I looked, it was the ring. As he cried, he asked me to marry him. It was so special because my kids were present. We were all crying. His plan was to ask me to marry him on our cruise.

Story: My fiance took me out to dinner at the Peddler in Raleigh for our 2 year anniversary. We walked in, ate the most delicious steak and even had dessert. I had no idea what was coming next... He had everything already figured out. At first he asked to take a picture which for a guy is pretty rare. So he asked if we could take it inside and I said it was too dark of lighting for a nice picture. (He really wanted to propose in front of everyone there) I told him we should take it outside for the perfect lighting. So we walked outside and the hostess starting taking a couple pictures. Well she got to close up on purpose (little did I know) so I said oh my please back up some so that it isn't to close up. So she backs up and he used that as his cue... He says "yes please back up so that I can do this..." And he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I was in complete shock I started crying so many happy tears and mustered up enough courage to nod my head yes!! Now here we are planning a wedding for July 27th 2019!! Can't wait ❤️

Story: My fiance (Qiyuan) and I met online by total chance, I was working in a pre-clinical mouse laboratory and she was a PhD student. She was the first woman whose eyes would not glaze over when I spoke about my work, instead she would get a spark of excitement ad enthusiasm which made me fall for her on our first date. She was born in China and lived most of her life there, being a person always curious about mythology and cultural stories I would frequently ply her to learn more. One day she told me a story about a small carp fish that through hard work and determination is able to climb up a waterfall that leads directly to heaven, after the long and difficult journey up the waterfall, the small fish was magically transformed into a dragon. I China they have a saying becoming a dragon, it is a reference to this story and means you have gone through a difficult process and now you are at a better place in your life. This story stuck with me, as time passed I saw her PhD as her waterfall and would help her anyway I could, bringing food to her in lab at 11pm or driving her back when she forgot to put something away. One day she called me at work in tears, she told me her lab would be moving and if she wanted to continue working on her PhD she would have to move several states away with the lab. I had just started working in a Pharma job that was paying well but money was not a thought when I heard the pain in her voice, I told her the next day I would go with her, wherever she went, it did not matter to me I wanted to spend my life with her and needed to show it. I could not have felt more serious about anything in my life, I had to show her how I felt and I had 2 months too do it. I went and bought an engagement ring shaped like a lily (her favorite flower) and organized a hiking trip for her and our friends. This trail had a nice water fall along side it and I had told a few friends that I would take this opportunity to propose. The trail led from the top of the waterfall down a slope to the bottom, on the walk by one of my friends placed the box at the top of the waterfall as I had asked him to do. When Qiyuan and I and everyone else made it to the bottom I looked at her, then the rock face around the falls and asked her "do you want to climb it with me?" at first she was nervous and told me "No!" but when I explained I would be next to her the whole time helping her climb she became more comfortable with the idea. Side by side we climbed to the top of the waterfall and when I got to the top and pulled her up after me we both looked down at what we had done together. I told her "life is full of waterfalls, but if we are together we can climb them no matter how difficult or tall they are. We are like the fish right now, but together we can become dragons" Then I turned around picked up the box got down on one knee on the rocks and asked her "Will you marry me?" and she stared at me eyes wide mouth agape and completely silent for what felt like an eternity until I meekly said "say something?" at which point she snapped out of it and screamed "YES!!!" I slipped the ring onto her fingers then we jumped from the top of the waterfall back to the bottom where she told everyone how happy she was. That is how I proposed to Qiyuan the love of my life, since then things have gotten much more difficult, we moved to a new state, I lost my job, but we have continued to support each other and climb higher every day as she has inspired me to attain a PhD as well. As a side note the picture of us

Story: My Fiance and I met doing the same summer internship in Virginia. I am from Oregon and he is from New Jersey, so when the summer ended we decided to break up instead of doing the whole long distance, cross-country thing. Buuuut we never stopped talking and ended up spending two years flying back and forth to see each other. For our 2nd anniversary, I wrote him "Open When" letters and told him he could open 2 a week. I was visiting him one weekend, so we went to the Jersey shore for dinner and he suggested we bring the box with all the letters since he hadn't read his yet. We had a lovely dinner and then walked along the beach for awhile. We sat down and he handed me the box to choose his letter. When I went through all the letters, I found one that said "Open When your name is Kim" (which I obviously hadn't written). It was a long letter about how much he loves me, how hard the distance has been, and our future together. At the end of the letter it said *Now turn to your Fiance* so I looked at him and he had the ring. I said YES!!