A Little History – Our Engagement

When looking for blogging ideas recently a friend recommended that I talk about how I met Matt. Well, that’s a little fuzzy… it’s been a while, and I can so easily pull our engagment story from my old wedding website… so since I’m lazy, here it is:

The Engagement

We got engaged on the 19th of December, 2008 and the story of how we got engagement is really entertaining.

Asking Dad

Matt told me that he had been thinking about asking my dad if he could marry me for a while, but it seemed that he’d no sooner decided to ask permission than he stopped seeing my dad around. Matt got lucky on December 19th, seeing my dad out working while he was on his was to do some work at Keys. Matt said that he knew he needed to get his work done, so he went and finished his projects.

On his way back from Keys, my dad was still outside, so Matt pulled the truck in, to talk to him. After about 5 minutes of talking about how things were going at work, Matt asked him if he could marry me. True to form, my dad told him that it was our decision and that we would be the ones that had to live with each other. As funny as that is, it’s actually really good advice.

Asking… well, sort of…

When I got to Matt’s, he was setting at his computer looking at his usual list of farm related message boards and NASCAR racing websites. Matt asked me about my last day at work, which had actually gone quite well considering it was my last day before Christmas vacation. After I told him about my day, I asked him about his.

A Shopping Trip

On Saturday morning, I got up early and ran to the bank and the BMV and finished all of my other errands in town. I showed up at Matt’s around 9am. To my suprise, Matt was still in bed sleeping. Once he woke up and was coherent enough to have a conversation, I realized that we had never officially decided to go look at rings because I had been so nervous about it the night before. This didn’t stop me from talking him into going ring shopping anyway. I personally wasn’t too fussed about having something super-fancy but, if you are looking for custom engagement rings, there are plenty of places online, like Kimberfire, who can work with you to create a beautiful, unique ring. As I said though, I was perfectly happy with going in-store and buying one.

When we got down to Evansville, we headed to the mall because there were several jewelry stores. (And because I had been down there the week before looking for Jewelry for Carolyn for Christmas and had seen the ring I wanted.) Because it was the Saturday before Christmas, the mall was packed, so we had to park in the back lot and we came in through Dillard’s. This was slightly stressful for Matt, because almost the first thing he had to walk by was a jewelry counter.

Matt wasn’t quite ready to go look at rings, so we went in just about every other store in the Mall, before we managed to go look at jewelry. Fortunately, because I knew what exactly what ring I was looking for, I was able to show the sales woman the ring I wanted and we only had to spend about 15 minutes in the store.

The only problem with taking me to pick out my ring was that once he’d paid for the ring, I wouldn’t give it back to him. He’d originally intended to take it back and officially ask me later, but I wasn’t about to give up the ring that I’d waited 6 years to get.

He never did officially asked me to marry him, but at this point it doesn’t matter. We’re got married, and that’s the important part.