The Proposal Story :)

As many of you know, John & I will be celebrating 10 years of marriage this Spring! We’ve been working with Kirles Jewelers to design the perfect “dream ring” since John wanted to give me a ring upgrade for our 10th wedding anniversary. 🙂 I’ve been super excited to see how it was going to turn out, I chose the stone and bands, but until this week, I hadn’t seen it all put together…and I didn’t know when he was planning on giving it to me! 😉 In the meantime, I booked an overnight getaway for us at the JW for Valentine’s Day and I booked the romance package, which included chocolate covered strawberries so I was just thinking that we’d have a nice little getaway, I had no idea what all was in store for that evening.

We got to the hotel and we were upgraded to an executive corner suite that had an amazing view of downtown! I thought that was really sweet of them to do that for us. We got checked in and unpacked some stuff then headed downstairs for our 5:00 dinner reservation at Osteria Pronto, a great Italian restaurant inside the hotel. We both ordered the lasagna and literally EIGHT minutes later, the food was on our table. I found out later that John had contacted my Aunt Mary to help with this surprise, they had connected the day earlier and he dropped off hundreds of rose petals and 18 candles that she was going to set up in the room while we were having dinner, but she wasn’t planning on getting there until 5:15. Needless to say, he started acting a little funny and he said, “you know, let’s just take our time, I don’t want to rush this dinner.” I said, “ok” and I thought that was a little strange but whatever. LOL He started eating really slow and then he wanted to order dessert, I had a feeling that something was going on but I couldn’t quite figure it out.

We finally got up to leave and he later told me that valet parked my aunt’s car right next to the window, behind our table!! Luckily I didn’t notice it and we headed upstairs. I opened the door to our suite and there were hundreds of rose petals leading from the doorway to the bed, and on the bed were the initials “WYMM” on it! He got down on one knee and proposed all over again and presented me with the most amazing ring ever!! He later told me that I was so shocked and he was so excited that he forgot his whole speech that he had planned out, but he had written it out on his phone so he read it to me later and it was the sweetest thing EVER! 🙂 We had a great night together and it was so memorable. This Spring we’ll be renewing our vows on the beach in Sanibel Island, Florida, one of our favorite vacation destinations and I can’t wait!! It’s kind of nice to be a “bride” all over again…I think couples should do this every 10 years! 😉 Thank you to everyone who helped make this Valentine’s Day the best one I’ve ever had!

Special thanks to:

Kirles Jewelers (Pete, Cindy & Kristi Kirles)

The JW Marriott, Kristin Hohlier, the concierge & staff at Osteria Pronto

Mary Hession (Canine Retreat)

Bella’s Blooms (Traci Mosby & Chuck Eaglin)