Six years ago today, Tyrone proposed. This is the post from last year and it includes a picture of the ring.
Five years ago today, Tyrone proposed.
Wow has it really been 5 years? Some days it feels like yesterday.
It was a day much like today, rainy and overcast. We always had a special date on the 6th of each month since that is the date of our 1st date. So Tyrone picked me up and we headed off to Edmonds. I knew we were doing something fun as I had to pack a lunch. Tyrone had thought about taking the ferry but it was so gray there was nothing to see, so we had a picnic at the beach.
We had walked down quite a ways and sat down on some logs and enjoyed our lunch. We are sitting there looking at the water and just talking. After we packed up our lunch, Tyrone says he has something to tell me. On the drive down I had a brief thought that maybe this was the day, the day he would propose. All of a sudden I'm sure of it when his first sentence is "I want to make you a promise."
Tyrone does not make promises lightly he won't even use promise as a joke. In the 8 months we had been dating I think he had promised me one other thing. So I knew at that point this was it!
After the 'Promise' sentence he drops to his knee and asks me to marry him. I said YES!
We walked back to the car and I was almost hyperventilating I was so excited. I loved this man and couldn't wait to spend the rest of my life with him. We got to the car and he called my mom and handed me his phone. I couldn't stop smiling. My mom said she had been talking to my Grandma and they both had wondered if today was the day.
After the beach we headed to Starbucks to warm up. We both got hot chocolate since no caffeine was needed to be alert. We were both too excited.
Once back at my parents house I heard the story about how he asked for my parents blessing. Apparently when Tyrone told them he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me, my parents said jokingly "Good, 'cause we don't want to." My dad told Tyrone that there was a 'No Return Policy' too.
Like any major event in my life I promptly got the flu. Maybe it was the excitement or the rainy, wet day, but I spend the next 2 days curled up in a ball. Once back to normal we started telling people and planning.
By now you might be wondering "What about the Ring?" Tyrone proposed without a ring. We had gone to a few stores but I didn't like anything. Even right after he proposed he said we could go look again and buy it today. I was too picky and said I'd wait until I found the right ring. Waiting had worked on finding the right guy.
So about a month before our wedding I found the ring. I wasn't worried about finding one, figuring it would happened eventually. My mom, sister and I had decided to spend the day in Seattle. Our favorite area to shop was the SoDo district. SoDo looks very industrial but has some amazing stores. There are some fun furniture stores, garden art, and an antique mall.
We had been to the antique mall before and decided to wander around. I started looking at rings in this one case and one of the workers asks if I'd like to try them on. I say sure so he goes and gets the key. The rings were pretty but none were my style so he says this vendor has 8 other cases and he'll go get the keys and we can keep looking. After the worker comes back he tells me that the vendor is there that day and will meet with me in 10 minuets. I'm thinking wow I hadn't even got this nice of service at any of the jewelers we had been too.
So 10 min later I'm sitting down with the man who looks like he's 80+ and he has the huge tackle box. He starts pulling wedding set after wedding set out of the box and letting me try them on. The third set out of the box was 'my ring.' This ring was perfect, it was platinum with a diamond that was round but set to look like a princess cut. I had really wanted a princess cut at first but this ring was prettier than any ring I had seen.
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