Here's the engagement story as I told it to friends through email a day or two after he proposed:
He's always surprised me in sooo many ways since we met (how we met was even a surprise for both of us) but he pulled the BIGGEST, SWEETEST one on me yesterday! Yes, I knew somehow it was coming, after all we've been making plans for 2009 already and like we told each other, somehow the surprise factor isn't too surprising anymore BUT I'd have to say he did it in a way to ruin that "no more surprise factor notion" - he got me real good!
We were "exchanging gifts" after a sumptuous lunch of chicken barbecue, batikon, pork barbecue, siomai & puso at Baybayon ni Agalon (it's always a first stop for us whenever he comes! We hang out at this beautiful tree house in this resort!). He gave lots of stuff - a pink (!!!) plastic case for my macbook (so it's ok to make it fall na daw - toink), juicy couture perfume, a Tiffany pearl bracelet, my favorite Lindt white chocolates, green tea & Godiva pretzels - the works! Then he opened my gifts for him (shirts with Pinas map on them, football maniac button-down shirt, other stuff i got for him from beijing). He left out a big box with a big ribbon. So I was like, "kadto diay dong?" He casually pretended and said, "aw yeah, that one diay". Asus, when i unwrapped it, it turned out to be 5 other small boxes inside the big box (yep, box after box after box after box) then finally in the smallest box was a stuffed snowman toy, with its hands clasped together, I was admiring it and in my head I was like "what in the world does this mean?" Lo and behold, in between its clasped hands was my engagement ring, I was like, "whats this?" - I honestly thought it was part of the stuffed toy! As in nagsparkle-sparkle man intawn so pwerteng ka klaro!!! He got the ring from me, knelt on one knee, and popped the question, "BAby, this is me asking you, will you marry me?" or something to that effect, I can't remember verbatim kay pwerte naman nako hilak!!!! ha ha ha ha i was laughing and crying and then laughing and then crying again - like crazy yes! but it was the sweetest. I swear!!! What made me cry even more was when he told me about the ring - apparently the biggest stone in the middle is an heirloom from his mother, as in passed from generations past, then the 2 bluish stones beside the biggest center diamond stone are aquamarine, my birthstones, then there are more diamonds around the ring which he bought himself na - so it's traditionally the something old, something new, something blue! wa lay borrowed daw :D as in myyyyygassssss, makahilak jud!!!! I was crying and laughing some more, he was just hugging me, crying and all!
We were "exchanging gifts" after a sumptuous lunch of chicken barbecue, batikon, pork barbecue, siomai & puso at Baybayon ni Agalon (it's always a first stop for us whenever he comes! We hang out at this beautiful tree house in this resort!). He gave lots of stuff - a pink (!!!) plastic case for my macbook (so it's ok to make it fall na daw - toink), juicy couture perfume, a Tiffany pearl bracelet, my favorite Lindt white chocolates, green tea & Godiva pretzels - the works! Then he opened my gifts for him (shirts with Pinas map on them, football maniac button-down shirt, other stuff i got for him from beijing). He left out a big box with a big ribbon. So I was like, "kadto diay dong?" He casually pretended and said, "aw yeah, that one diay". Asus, when i unwrapped it, it turned out to be 5 other small boxes inside the big box (yep, box after box after box after box) then finally in the smallest box was a stuffed snowman toy, with its hands clasped together, I was admiring it and in my head I was like "what in the world does this mean?" Lo and behold, in between its clasped hands was my engagement ring, I was like, "whats this?" - I honestly thought it was part of the stuffed toy! As in nagsparkle-sparkle man intawn so pwerteng ka klaro!!! He got the ring from me, knelt on one knee, and popped the question, "BAby, this is me asking you, will you marry me?" or something to that effect, I can't remember verbatim kay pwerte naman nako hilak!!!! ha ha ha ha i was laughing and crying and then laughing and then crying again - like crazy yes! but it was the sweetest. I swear!!! What made me cry even more was when he told me about the ring - apparently the biggest stone in the middle is an heirloom from his mother, as in passed from generations past, then the 2 bluish stones beside the biggest center diamond stone are aquamarine, my birthstones, then there are more diamonds around the ring which he bought himself na - so it's traditionally the something old, something new, something blue! wa lay borrowed daw :D as in myyyyygassssss, makahilak jud!!!! I was crying and laughing some more, he was just hugging me, crying and all!
Here are some of the pictures (from my phone camera coz we didn't bring a cam!):
That's my now fiance Pancho with Snowman ;-)
That's my snowman holding my ring - a beautiful one at that; a GORGEOUS one at that!
That's THE box (the biggest of the bunch of other smaller boxes within!)
My beautiful, gorgeous ring!I've always eyed my Mom's eternity diamond ring and she'd always just retort back, "Make your husband buy that for you! I've long deserved mine!"
So when I saw my ring and saw that it wasn't the typical single diamond stone, and that it turned out to be even more beautiful, I was just overwhelmed with joy and pride! I was proud of my Chooby for coming up with such a beautiful one -
So yes, we're getting married!
August 8th, 2009. Save the date!
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