My girlfriend and I had been seeing each other for about a year and a half. We planned a trip to Tofino, which sits on the West Coast of Vancouver Island directly on the Pacific Ocean. We had rented a small cabin on its own island (Frank Island) which is only accessible during low tide. At high tide the water surrounds the island, and if you’re on, you’re stuck!
The first evening on Frank Island, I picked huge mussels off the rocks and my girlfriend cooked them. After dinner we were enjoying a bottle of wine over looking the Pacific when I presented her with a hand drawn picture book of how we met, our courtship and how much I loved her (in a cartoon sort of format). At the end of the book I asked her some questions which she needed to say out loud. When she flipped to the last page there was a drawing of me down on one knee holding out my hand… and I had attached the ring to my drawn hand. “Will you marry me?”
She said YES! We are quickly coming up on our 5th Wedding Anniversary with a 3 year old daughter and my wife expecting our second any day now. So it worked out pretty good I’d say.
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- Cody C., Victoria, British Columbia