We want to thank everyone who submitted their proposal stories. In the interest of sharing the love, check out this wonderful story from Brandon B. of Addison, TX. Brandon, we wish you and your bride a lifetime of happiness!

Here’s the story of how I proposed to Heidi, the love of my life and my soon wife-to-be.

I already had the ring in hand, and she knew it was coming.  I had decided to involve her in the design because I wanted it to be her perfect ring.  It is a custom design adaptation of an art deco ring from the 30’s of which she had found a picture.  It is very different, but definitely classic.  Once we were far enough along in the design decisions, she had been excluded from the final design process and we had discussed nothing about it for about two months.

I’m in my late 40’s, and although Heidi is much younger than me, she is not a nineteen-year-old bride, and this is her first marriage.  She is a person that is loved and respected my many people and she has many close long-term friends.  I knew very well that when we announced our engagement many friends would ask her, “Well, how did he propose?” and I wanted to be able to provide her with a good story to tell and a good memory.  I wrote out the story of our courtship in the style of a “National Examiner” type story, including the requisite “believe it or not” types of exclamations.  The title was “Lovers meant for each other take entire lives to find each other”.  I created it in a PowerPoint with a picture of us in it, and laid it out to match the format of a National Examiner that I had bought at the grocery store.  I went to a copy place that could make the appropriate sized two sided color copy in the right weight paper.  I removed a page, recreated it with one side of it having my “creation” and reassembled the magazine with the story coming up on page 3.

I then left it out on my kitchen table for her to see.  She noticed it and asked why I had it.  I told her that it had a story about us in it.  She didn’t bite.  After awhile, I “complained” to her that I had found this great article someone had written about us and she wasn’t even interested.  So she reluctantly decided to humor me.  She really thought it was just another of my pointless stupid jokes, with which she is always very patient.  When she saw it and started to read it, she turned away from me because she claims that she doesn’t like me to see her cry.  The last line in the story was, “Then one day Brandon got Heidi to read this story, and when it got to this part he said…”  She turned to me with tears in her eyes.  I offered the ring and said, “Will you marry me?”

Well, we’re getting married on March 03, and it will most certainly be the happiest wedding anyone has ever witnessed.  We will always have this proposal story to tell, and we also have the special copy of the National Examiner to keep and remember it.

Brandon B.

Addison, TX