Although no longer on the its website, Bridal Guide highlighted our engagment story for a week in Febuary 2007. We were one of five couples "offered" a discounted honeymoon to Jamaica. Regardless of the marketing ploy, it was a real treat to know that hundreds of people read and enjoyed our story! In fact, according to our friend in Germany and Jackie's mom's coworker in San Diego, George is now know as "the guy" who shames other guys into having to propose romantically and creatively!

George surprised me the morning of my 30th birthday. What a double whammy!

We had gone out the night before salsa dancing to celebrate my birthday with a bunch of friends. The next morning he woke up saying that we had to get up to see an early movie and start the day of festivities. Ha, what a ruse!

We drove to the movie theater, and the lady taking our tickets told us the previews would start in about 10 minutes. On the way into the theater room, we stopped and chatted about the movie poster of Little Miss Sunshine, which I was excited to see. George doesn’t usually like talking about movies before we’ve seen them, so I was pleasantly surprised that he was “allowing” me to talk about the characters on the poster.

We walked in the room, which was empty, and I chalked that up to it being 11 AM on a gorgeous Saturday, and everyone must be enjoying the day. We talked about which seats to take. A couple minutes of continuing to chit chat, the theater darkened and the screen lit up. I turned my head and saw a larger than life image of our Lego family that George built of us and our two kitties a few years ago. I was really confused, and I’m sure my jaw dropped because I couldn’t understand how someone got this photo and was able to use it for a commercial. I remember looking at George with my jaw open, then looking back at the screen, and just not understanding what was happening.

And then the screen started showing images of the past four years together. It was a 20-minute movie of our life! George had spent a day recreating our life together, from filming where we first met at a park feeding homeless people food from the trunk of his car to me asking him to go out on a date and then running away because I was so scared and excited (with the Miami Vice theme playing in the background) to where we had our first date, which was the worst first date we both had ever been on, and just on and on. I spent the entire film crying and laughing and really just plumb astonished.

Then on film he turned the camera to himself and asked, “George, do you have it?” And the George standing next to me said, “Yes.” And then the George on film started to get teary eyed and said that it was time now to turn it over to the George in the theater. The screen darkened, and he got down on his knees and proposed. With tears soaking my shirt, I tried to verbalize how I felt about everything he had done to show his amazing love for me, but he says all I said after he proposed was “I do,” instead of “I will.”

So romantic! And heart warming! And WONDERFUL!