We were standing on a grassy green hill overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, the bay, and the Pacific Ocean. It was a spectacular and sublime setting for question and answer. Marry? Yes.
For several minutes, we stood looking down on the rocky, battered shore on the Pacific side. We said nothing for quite awhile. There were no friends or family there to rush hugs around us and shed happy tears, no black-suited restaurant maitre-de popping a cork on a champagne bottle, no arena full of screaming basketballs fans staring at a jumbo-tron or TV crews or sky-writing planes finishing a quickly fading question mark.
It was just the two of us, relieved because we had been silently skirting the issue for several months. I was going to be his wife, he was going to be my husband. It was March 19, 1996. He was 25-years-old, I was 24.
We took a picture of the spot where he asked me to marry him.
We held hands and made our way down a narrow, winding trail back to the pebbly parking lot where we left his car. He opened the trunk and the blue cooler inside. We made turkey and cheese sandwiches and sipped Coke.
I felt shy and beautiful and beloved.
You’re lucky. I asked my wife to marry me over a slice of pizza.
And she had a cold.
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How sweet! Ours was an un-monumental yet still monumental event as well.
Happy anniversary of your engagement! You’re just full of celebration this week.
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This is beautiful. My husband proposed to me in his apartment here at seminary. He wrote me a love letter and after I read it he pulled the ring out nervously… hidden in his dirty clothes basket! it was such a glorious day 😀
I’m such a duffus! I forgot to say… Congratulations!!!
What a sweet, sweet moment. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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Well then tomorrow is quite a special day for you and your family. Congratulations. Sandy proposed to me in our Chicago apartment because he couldn’t wait once he had the ring…nice to remember that:)
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CONGRATS ~ Aren’t those memories the best?! 1996…I was married almost 2 years at that point! WOW
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Isn’t it wonderful how one little question can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary?
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I love little “sneak into people’s lives posts” – lovely! I hid how our engagement happened in a long post on hikes the other day… its a long post so don’t kill yourself… it’s in the fifth hike, the Otter Trail if you want to go and look:
http://www.se7en.org.za/2009/03/02/se7en-significant-hikes
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Congratulations.
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Happy engagement anniversary!
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And you’re still both. Celebrate on!
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Happy Engagement anniversary! What a sweet memory.
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That is indeed a magical place.
We were in that same spot, that same year, on the steep side that looks out over the vast Pacific. We saw an older couple walking along the trail. They were wearing Birkenstocks and holding hands. They looked to be about 80 — weathered, white-headed and very happy. We agreed that when we were 80, we would come back. We would wear Birkenstocks and walk along the trail, holding hands. We both agreed in our hearts to marry that day, but didn’t say it out loud a year or more.
I love your little snapshot, the way you wrote it.
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What a sweet memory! I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to be asked the question.
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What a perfect beginning. 🙂
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What a great post! 🙂
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