How should I ask her to marry me?

[TrueDave]

Well I thought about it and I took her to the Sharon Woods lake . Theres some old moss covered cobblestone stairs there that leads down to a view of the dams' waterfall. We watched a pair of Herons swoop . Iwent as a kid. A secret place

I asked her if she wanted to sit down and when she did I went down to my good knee ( I'm teaching her to ride a bicycle & we had a wreck)
i just mumbled something about Wikipedia saying a heirloom counts . ( no ring shopping )

I freaked when I realized I was actually going to say those words out loud .IBut I knew she would say yes.

No planning. She just wants to get it done. No party. No church. Actually talking me out of it. My parents eloped to Tennesse. I would like to Honeymoon in the Smoky Mountains. Neither one of us has much family anyway. I asked if we could maybe have a party for my Geek friends on our first anniversary.

Met Selena on New Years day at the laundrymat this year. Last year was bad. I did NOT want to see 2010.

She was watching " Talking Tina " TZ on the public TV.


I would have sculpted our cake toppers.

[Joe90]

Met Selena on New Years day at the laundrymat this year. Last year was bad. I did NOT want to see 2010.

Wait a minute...

Did you make a post somewhere here at the MM regarding that encounter?

It sounds familiar.

[jp1969]

Congrats Dave.
Do'nt you just love the Twilight zone?
I know I do.
Its where I like to spend most of my time.

[mrwisker]

three words...
Vegas Baby...Elvis

[TrueDave]

Wait a minute...

Did you make a post somewhere here at the MM regarding that encounter?

It sounds familiar.

Probably I cant remember. I might have said I was talking to my Aunt like friend who works there ( Embroidered me an Awesome GI Joe sweatshirt!) she was telling me to get settled I said I'm picky I noticed Selina sitting on a bench.

Thing is if Twilight Zone had not been on I would not have geeked out and made the courage ( brazen dorkiness!) to talk to her.

I have wondered if this makes it offical. I am in the Twilight Zone. Make a nice themed wedding cake! Back when it was a joking matter I showed her the Gremlin and Serve Man neoMEGOs for the cake.

Just because I have been spared the Rehersal Brunches and all that doesnt mean I havent had time to sit and stare the scary future coming at me.

I just cant think of any more I can dfo in this life all by myself.

[Bill]

I was all Andy Griffith about marriage and told her we couldn't get married until I had a house. So two years of rehabbing the six month project of a house the inspector came for the final. I don't even think he made it to his car and I was down on one knee in our living room proposing.
Neither of us wanted a big wedding, and we had been vacationing each Spring at our friend's folk's place on the river in Florida, back when we still lived in Baltimore. It's our favorite place so we just took a half hour out of our regular "RiverFest" to get married right on the boathouse with the friends that hung out with us there. One of our friends is a really good photographer and our "two hands with rings cutting the cake" photo is actually "two hands holding a grilling fork flipping a ribeye over the coals.
Small weddings are cool; it's your day, no need to stress out over all those silly details if you're not interested in having a big wedding. I was thirty and Linda was twenty-six; we didn't invite anyone outside of our regular RiverFest crew, six friends, my buddies parents who live on the river and the reverend. My parents got over it quickly, just happy that we got married even though they weren't there.

[bizzaro megomauler]

Do it out of genuine love, the rest is all smoke and mirrors...