Throwing up some pictures from mine and Eric's engagement in August! Why it has taken me so long to post these...I do not know. My goal for 2021 is to get better at blogging again! But even though it has been months since I said yes, I can still remember the engagement like it was yesterday. Some people had "quarantined like" weddings this year - well Eric and I had a "quarantine like" engagement. It was done within the four walls of our apartment. It was super simple and super sweet and I was more than surprised. Eric gets 10/10 on the surprise because I literally had no idea.
Here is how the engagement story goes:
The week leading up to the engagement - I did notice that Eric was unusually busy (clue number one). We had made plans that weekend to make hard shell crabs in our apartment. So in my mind it was just going to be a weekend like any other. The Saturday morning of our engagement Eric wakes me up at like 7am (clue number two). He is like get up we have so much to do today!! I am like what do we have to do today...it's Saturday and Saturdays are my sleep in days!! But he persisted and I gave in. We went to the crab shack to pick up our hard shells crabs, and as we were driving by the wine store, Eric goes "do we need any champagne?" I am like "for what?" haha (club number 3). I was like "no we don't need anything" and he was like "yes we do" and then he quickly drove into the parking lot of the wine store. I feel like I was sitting in the car for like 30 minutes before he came back out (I am sure it wasn't actually 30 minutes but it felt like he was gone for an unusual amount of time). Then after the wine store we proceeded to the grocery store. When we got home from our errands, I was unloading groceries and I was like "what are these strawberries doing in our grocery bags?" haha (clue number 4). Even though clues are adding up, at this point I seriously did not think he was proposing. I mean we had picked up the ring and I had always teased him about proposing, but I was always just teasing. I didn't think a proposal was happening anytime soon.
So....after we unload groceries, Eric is like I have to work. I am like, ok that is nothing new, I am going into our bedroom and watching Walk the Line. Thirty minutes later Eric walks in and is like come out in the front room I have a game for us (clue number 5.) I was like oh how cute and romantic!! Eric has planned a game for us - what a sweet boyfriend. Well that game was a questionnaire about us and our relationship with questions like "where did we first meet?" "who said I love you first?" "where was our first date" etc. etc. on the last slide it said "will you...." and then my face dropped and I was like OMG Eric is proposing. And then he moved to the last slide and it said "read a book with me." hahaha I was like AGH! jokes on me! this was never a proposal....good one Eric!!
And then... he pulled out the book we'd been reading together and inside the book was my ring. 😊
So it wasn't a joke after all.
And I said YES!
