Working two minimum wage jobs in college I was able to save up enough money for a ring and a cross-country trip to Arizona. We drove two full days to Tucson, AZ and stayed with relatives before going to the Grand Canyon. We hiked down the Bright Angel Trail, a 6.1 mile trail down into [...]
I proposed in Savannah, GA when I had a weekend off from Airborne School. My girlfriend, now wife, came to visit me and we stayed at a Marriott. I had been spending my nights off getting all my ducks in a row for her anticipated trip and the excitement I knew would come from it. [...]
Our engagement story began on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008. Beth flew into Baltimore at approximately 5:30 pm. After an evening out to dinner, we returned to my apartment to watch a movie. Before going to sleep that night, I gave Beth a box asking her to embark on a journey with John the following day.
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I took my wife (girlfriend at the time) to Amelia Island in Florida where we love to vacation. I told her we were going fishing at sunset on the beach behind Fort Clinch State park. After we got there I asked her if she wanted to go for a walk where we found a bottle [...]
My wife knew it was coming…we had talked about it. She even picked out the ring. She did not, however, know when I was getting it. Luckily I made her believe it would be a month or two longer than I actually did get it.
There is this place we liked to go to- [...]
My fiance and I were vacationing in Sweden and Germany from right after Christmas until a week after New Years. On December 31 we were in a little town in Southern Sweden named Skanor. Every year on New Years absolutely everyone in the town sets of fireworks at midnight. So right before midnight, him and [...]
I met my future wife way back in 1990. We dated for a year, then moved in together. The years went by and everyone kept asking, when are you going to get married? Every holiday, my girlfriend waited and hoped, but never got a ring.
We had started traveling south in 1993 and [...]
For my marriage proposal I took my girlfriend on a Cruise with my family and I. While on Grand Cayman, we went to 7 mile beach, went paddle boating and all the fun stuff. Then her and I wondered off from the crowds of people. My little brother tagged along taking pictures and [...]