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We are sure many of you want to know the W's, or rather the who, what, when, where, why, how, summary (okay this isn't a current events article). But here is the information many of you are dying to know!
We got engaged Friday, August 28, 2009 @ 6:55pm at The Seasons @ Plainview in the parking lot of Suz's condo.
So...here's the story from Suzanne:
Well… it was nothing glamorous, but it was perfect. To be honest, I really don’t go out to the city a lot unless I am seeing a Broadway show or have something planned, so for Josh to take me out some place fancy or plan a fancy day or something out of the ordinary I would have suspected it. I knew it was coming this year but I was dead set on October – November. We looked around for what I would like back in February, but my mom’s best friend’s husband is a diamond jeweler and we knew whatever I saw he would make. It turns out what I thought I liked, I didn’t want, and something at Zales caught my eye. Josh saved the picture from online and took it to him as a model to go by. However one of his days off from work (he lifeguards over the summer) he went with my mom to her friend’s house to pick out the stone. After that my mom wanted nothing to do with it. She wanted to be surprised when he would propose and what the outcome of the ring would be.
This Friday during the nasty weather we basically had a lazy day watching True Blood. Normally I go to the gym but I have been having trouble with my knee so I have been taking it easy (which doesn’t help my 2 year wedding diet haha) and he couldn’t me out of the house to get the ring. He slipped into my mom’s room while I was in the bathroom and asked her to pick it up and she did, but she did not look at it. In the meantime it was about 6 and we were getting ready to go to my friend’s indoor bbq (rain) and Josh looked at the ring and thought it was better with the adjustments (from the picture), wanted my mom to see it and she freaked out because it wasn’t exactly like the picture and she knows how particular I am (although she thought it was a lot prettier). My mom asked him where to hide it since he wasn’t planning on proposing for another 2 weeks or so, and he said “I have an idea.” At that point my mom was like “OH MY GOSH!!!” Josh’s mom called him (I was still getting ready at the time) and he was trying to get her off the phone which is always hard to do (sorry Carol!!!) Josh’s mom knew 15 min before and my mom knew 30 min before it was going to happen. After I got dressed Josh goes “you are wearing that? You told me last month that from now until we are engaged when we go out your hair should look good, nails done, clothes look good, and that you have a camera on you.” Well it was nasty out so my hair was up and gross, I threw on jeans with a regular shirt—nothing special. I said “Josh, you don’t have a ring yet, you didn’t even go to Gabe yet, and you won’t propose in front of friends.” He said “ok fine, I am just telling you what you told me to tell you.” I thought nothing of it because he was right, I told him to remind me of all that. I decided to take my chances. Anyway, we are ready to go I have a bottle of wine in my hand for the BBQ, and we are walking to his car (which is extremely old). Josh was ahead of me and I hear him yell “OH SHIT” and is down to the ground. From my angle (there was another car blocking his in my community parking lot) I thought he had a flat tire. I walked faster to the car only to see he was down on his knee asking me “WILL YOU MARRY ME?” I said “SHUT UP.” He said “That doesn’t answer my question. WILL YOU MARRY ME?” And of course I said “YES…SHUT UP!!!” and the tears came down! He proceeded to say… “even though you look beautiful all the time, I told you to dress nice!!!!” It was absolutely perfect!!!
Well folks that's the story. Thank you so much for all of your well wishes and its just a shame we can't thank everyone properly all the time, but we are VERY grateful for them. Finally, we hope that this answers the big questions and that you will keep checking back often.
