Me and my now fiancée had been going out for just over 2 years when I proposed to her. We went out to the Stephen F. Austin Experimental Forest Nature Trail. This is a place where we often took our dog for a walk and was a nice place to relax where it was just me and her. Well I had planned on proposing on a hilltop overlooking a creek bottom, where the dogwoods were blooming with their showy white flowers all through the woods. However, as we were walking we had to cut the walk short because our dog started limping. I had no idea of what I was going to do, my plan was ruined. I had rose petals and the ring in my coat pocket and was trying to figure out how I was going to get them out without her seeing me. Luckily, she loaded the dog into the truck. As she was doing that I walked over to a fountain that had a bird blind next to it near the parking area but semi-secluded by trees and shrubs. I laid out a trail of rose petals down the trail to the fountain and left a small pool of petals by the fountain. I walked back up and sat on the bench by the bird blind. As she walked up she looked at me and was like what happened here, in reference to the flowers, and I said “I don’t know lets go check it out”. Kelsey never associates me with anything romantic so she had no clue of what I was about to do. So we walked up to the fountain and when we got to the pool of flowers I said “this must be where it happened” and Kelsey said “where what happened”, I said “this happened” got down on one knee in the pool of rose petals and pulled out the ring box. Kelsey immediately burst into tears and said yes.
- Timothy S., Nacogdoches, Texas