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May 2018 Moms
ivyvines6
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GTKY ring edition 11/13
ivyvines6
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I'm still stuck on getting married a week ago 
Let’s see some pictures of your ring/rings, or the ring you want eventually. I’d also love to hear your proposal story, or your dream proposal. (Or both if that’s how you wanna roll
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Let’s see some pictures of your ring/rings, or the ring you want eventually. I’d also love to hear your proposal story, or your dream proposal. (Or both if that’s how you wanna roll
)
Re: GTKY ring edition 11/13
Nothing too too exciting for our proposal. My husband is a terrible liar and he was so nervous so I was kind of expecting it (only about 2 hours before it happened though, not like weeks ahead of time). Took me to a park at sunset with our favorite pizza and just told me he loved me and asked. He did great.
The pic is from our wedding night. We got pizza on our first date, on the night he asked, and on our wedding night. Any excuse for pizza!
So we get there and he’s acting all weird, mentioning there’s a lot of people all over the place, so I suggested we go to a smaller section of the downtown area that’s less crowded. We walk over there and he keeps telling me how much he loves me and how much better his life has gotten since he met me etc... When we got to the other area he said “Let’s make this a night to remember” and me, being me, turned around a bitchy saying “and what’s THAT supposed to mean?” Just to see him kneeing with a ring in his hand. “Ivy, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?” And I obviously said yes.
We went to Harry’s afterwards, and we still joke that that was the most expensive meal that neither of us actually ate. (We had awesome lunch leftovers the next day) Immediately afterwards we went to my parents house, and DH had already asked my dad the week before at church. (I thought it was weird that he went to church but...) My dad’s response was “Dude, what took you so long?” When DH asked him.
The funny thing is I had shown him the ring I wanted beforehand and jokingly (not jokingly) told him that I’m going to be wearing this ring for the rest of my life, and this is what I want. He of course got me a slightly different ring and I’m so much more in love with it.
@ivyvines6 Is that a sapphire? Beautiful!
@suchaglencoco
Like @ivyvines6, I thought he was going to dump me. We had been together for about 5 years at the time. I was in the process of buying a condo and he was being a colossal ass about it. He was so negative about the whole thing and was disappearing for big chunks of time of the weekends with no explanation.
We headed up to the camp we had both been counselors at for a long time, which basically means we don't see each other for the week, because the girls are on one side and the boys are on the other. One night, we were running the rag ceremonies for other counselors and he asked me to stay behind by myself so he could talk to me. I still had no idea what was going on. He started talking about our relationship and I still thought he was going to dump me. Then he got down on one knee and pulled out the rings and proposed. I was shocked and didn't even know what to say! And then I was so nervous for him that he had been carrying around that ring all week while at camp!
We have terrible cell service up there, so I didn't tell my mom until we go home. DH did not ask her permission which was probably a mistake. She was NOT on board and was asking a bunch of crazy questions about money and where we were going to live. In her defense, DH had been kind of a mess about school and didn't have a "career" at the time AND she was turning 50 the next week and having a hard time with that. He ended up going to EMT school that fall and getting hired full time by an ambulance company. My mom actually wrote him a letter a few months before the wedding apologizing and thanking him for making good on his promise. Now I think she likes him better than she likes me and my brother! Pictures of my ring in spoilers because they are huge.
PS I'm not really girly so I don't know how to take nice ring pictures.
The engagement ring is still the original, but I lost the original wedding band. I worse a cheap fake one for a couple years until he surprised me with a real replacement a few years ago. He also gave me the middle topaz ring the first Christmas after DD was born for her birth month and has her name and birthdate inscribed on the sides.
BFP 2/25/14 EDD 11/5/14 BD 11/4/14
BFP 8/26/17 EDD 5/5/18
@bjkay22 What is the decoration on your ring fingernail? I love the pizza association, too, so sweet!
@ivyvines6 Your ring goes SO well with your Art Deco theme, I love it!
@suchaglencoco I love the cute little thing with the penguin. We have a little hat made out of paper plates that my little sister made in elementary school, and a hideously ugly sweater that my BIL gave me for Christmas a few years ago (with a gift card buried under it) that we've been passing back and forth/hiding in random places for years!
@mileswithmyles I LOVE your ring. It looks very similar to my "dream" ring, and pretty close to what I actually got.
@jhysmath I had to google "ghuilly suit" and it makes your story so much better now that I know what it is! LOL What a great story!
My proposal story is awful. LOL Our courtship was very fast, we met in November and very shortly after we met, I gave him a picture out of the newspaper ads and said I want a ring kinda like this, but princess cut, and a little bigger. One day in February (I was sleeping after a night shift) he called me and told me he was shopping with his mom for my engagement ring, and he didn't know what to do. He couldn't buy me the ring he wanted to because he couldn't afford it. So he asked if I would rather have a smaller one that he could afford now, or wait a few years until he could afford the one I wanted. I told him to do what he thought he should, so he said, Ok I'll just buy this one. Wow, thanks for the surprise factor. He didn't actually end up giving it to me until June, and I was getting pretty antsy by that point, knowing he had it but wouldn't give it to me. He asked me at the beginning of June what days we had off together that month, and when I told him June 24th he said we should have dinner or do something special. So, of course I figured that he would do it then. On June 24th, he woke me up (again sleeping after a night shift) by bringing me breakfast in bed. A little while later I was in the bathroom (naked) brushing my teeth and getting ready to get in the shower to get ready for our dinner that night. He came in the bathroom and said he was really excited for dinner, and I said, Yeah, it'll be nice to have a night off together. I then thanked him for bringing me breakfast in bed and said no one had ever done that before, and he started talking about dinner again. I'm like, dude. yeah. Dinner will be great. I get it. He kept talking about how nice it would be, and finally said, "We can celebrate." I asked what we would be celebrating, and I turned around to see him on his knee (in our bathroom, with me buck naked and him wearing nothing but a pair of basketball shorts-talk about romantic) and he asked me to marry him. I said, "Are you fucking kidding me?" , started laughing, and when he said, "No I'm not kidding." I said, "Well where's the ring?" He said, "Oh yeah, oops!" and dug it out of his pocket. He told me after the fact that he did it that way because he knew I had figured out he was going to do it at dinner that night, so he did it before so he could still surprise me. I was thinking, well you could have done it with my breakfast in bed or NOT done it that night and did it later, I still would have been surprised! LOL I still give him crap about proposing in the least romantic way ever.
Picture in spoiler. Sorry it's from far away, I can't take a current picture because my fingers are already so swollen I had a hard time getting them off. laugh/cry face.
Married June 2012
BFP June 2013- blighted ovum, D&C Aug 2013
BFP Oct 2013- twins! A&H born May 2014
BFP Aug 2017- EDD 5/8/17
Long story short he left a ring box on the counter, told me to open it. When I finally did, it was EMPTY. I turn around to punch him (he likes playing jokes) and he's down on one knee with the real box open which was NOT empty and the rest is history.
Apparently he went to every jeweler in town trying to find something unique. I think he did great and I couldn't have picked a better ring if I had done it myself.
So side story, I never actually wear the engagement ring because it snags everything and pinches my finger causing a blister. And I really don't like the ring at all. It was the ring his dad gave his mom and then she kept it after the divorce and passed on to him. But his dad proposed after six weeks of dating because she was pregnant and they were never happy together and divorced when DH was two after his dad had just finished building her dream home (which she got in the divorce...) Just in general it felt like an odd ring to pass down. If they had just upgraded later in life and passed it down sure, but they didn't. Also I don't have a picture because DS dumped out my entire jewelry box and it's been lost since then. But I don't ever wear jewelry besides my wedding ring so I don't really want another one. DH had specific instructions to have zero diamonds on the wedding band. Just a plain band. That's my style.
Yours is beautiful too. I love that he incorporated family pieces into it. So special!
@zizzabell523 that’s so cute! I would love a third band.
@MrT723 so cute and sentimental. DH designed mine, too and I love that.
@sandbar517 lol! That is hilarious.
@onesmallcoconut aww! That’s cute!
@theletlers that is an odd item to pass down for that reason.
Also I couldn't find a picture of me in it because I took all the photos, but that's a friend of our who decided he needed to try it on too.
We got married 5 weeks before we moved.
@thedawkterswife The stone is so pretty! What is it?
The only picture I can find right now is one I took the at the hotel on our wedding night.
DH proposed 4 months after we met. I think we both just felt it was right. We got married about a year and a few months later.
We went to the Florida Keys together. We went to dinner and watched the sunset at Mallory Square. We walked around awhile. We sat just watching the boats and water. He said that the week had been perfect but then said it had been almost perfect. We had a fight about something so I thought he was talking about that so I said I was sorry. lol He said it would be perfect if I agreed to be his wife. It was perfect!
DH and I️ met and got engaged in college. I’m from Seattle but went to school out of state. He came to visit over the summer and took me down to a beautiful waterfront area and gave me a scrapbook full of notes we had written each other and a fun pictures of things we had done together. The last page said will you marry me?
I️ am a pretty simple jewelry girl so I love my solitaire. We will have our 10 year anniversary in about a year and a half so I️ May upgrade to something with a bit more bling.
@ivyvines6 LOVE your ring. So beautiful and unique.
@mileswithmyles I think my mom likes my husband more than me now too ha.
@jhysmath I've worn one of those ha. My friend hunts and had one.
@sandbar517 haha that is actually really cute. And you gotta give him props for the breakfast in bed
@MissusTexas beautiful ring. I’m a big fan of emerald cuts.
@attorneyworkproduct the scrapbook idea is so sweet. I don’t know any men that are that crafty or put that much thought into presents. You are a lucky lady!
DH proposed when we were away on a short ski vacation in Vermont. I picked a really cheap motel even though he was suggesting we stay somewhere nicer. I was like, "Why waste money?" I had had a really bad week at work and was crying right before we drove the 6+ hours up to VT. He proposed in the dingy hotel room (put rose petals on the motel bed) before dinner. It was cute, but I wish I had let him pick the nicer hotel ha. (Ring in spoiler)
Married: 8/22/15
BFP #1: 8/22/17 | DS: 4/20/18
BFP #2: 7/14/19 | EDD: 3/18/20
@JNCPro3130 that is such a sweet proposal
@attorneyworkproduct that's a beautiful spot for a proposal. I love Seattle
@silverhope is that a recent picture? I like your manicure!
@holli0801 that is such a pretty picture. Your ring looks so great with your flowers!
I love my ring. DH chose a Canadian diamond as the center stone which I think is really special.
My husband and I ring shopped together because he honestly wanted to know what I liked and wanted me to have something I loved. We had been dating for about 2 1/2 years before he asked me, which wasn't without me questioning him at least once a week about when he was going to ask. It seemed like everyone around me was getting engaged and hadn't been together as long as us. We went to look at the holiday lights together at a local amusement park. On the way home, I bugged him again about his timeline and he told me he thought he had something in line. When we got home, he asked me again what I wanted for Christmas and I told him he knew what I wanted, to get engaged. I changed, sat on the couch, and turned on the TV. He came downstairs with a box of candy and asked if I wanted a piece. Not one to turn down candy, even at 11 at night, I opened it up. In the middle was the ring box but I thought it was a special case for a chocolate covered cherry or something. Like an idiot I asked him what it was and he said open it and inside was my ring! I look over and he's on one knee and asking me to marry him and I'm freaking out, telling him to shut up, and crying. Completely surprised and absolutely perfect!
@mmb4532 aw that is such a sweet (literally) proposal!
@mileswithmyles no, sadly. I haven't had my nails done since March
Married: 8/22/15
BFP #1: 8/22/17 | DS: 4/20/18
BFP #2: 7/14/19 | EDD: 3/18/20
He then ran out to the car, and came back in saying we had to leave, and go back to the orchard to see if he had dropped it there.
He was calling our parents to go look in the yard and in our houses.
Finally, with our fancy food all boxed up, we went back to his parents house. He kept looking for the lost ring, and I had a hunch to check the car again. I swiped my hand along the drivers seat and lo and behold, the velvet ring box was right there! It matched the car upholstery perfectly!
Victorious, I ran back into his house, where his whole family was hanging out and he immediately got on one knee (again) and proposed, again!
It was funny and frustrating and so like our relationship and definitely makes for a fun story!
Married June 2012
BFP June 2013- blighted ovum, D&C Aug 2013
BFP Oct 2013- twins! A&H born May 2014
BFP Aug 2017- EDD 5/8/17
It desperately needs to be cleaned.
I actually proposed to my husband. He had said that if I wanted to get married, I’d have to propose. (Still not sure why to this day, but it doesn’t matter). It wasn’t really all that romantic. We had been dating four months. We were watching tv one night and I asked him if he was going to love me forever. He said yes, so then I said “is this where I go get your ring out of my backpack?” He was really surprised. Obviously he said yes.
This meant I got to pick out my own ring so of course I love it. We decided that it looked lopsided with just one wedding band so we opted for 2.