We’re Gettin’ Hitched!

8 December 2006 9:35:19

Last night, outside the Rotary Lights at Riverside Park with the temperature hovering around nine degrees Fahrenheit, I asked my beautiful girlfriend to become my wife.

“How did you do it?” you ask? Well, it started with the help of her roommates who blindfolded and kidnapped her for the trip down to the park. You see, Thursday night is always “Roommate Night” for the three of them, so she wasn’t expecting to see me at all.

I was already at the park, setting up a large sign made from rope lights that asked, “Erica - Will you marry me?” so that it would face out at all the lights from the Rotary decorations and getting our good friend and photographer set to take some photos of the momentous event (photos below).

Once the girls arrived, kidnap-ee in tow, they brought her out of the car, across the street and down to me without saying a word. At that point they left Erica and me to be alone, but Erica still didn’t know who was leading her around blindfolded.

I took her the last short distance to where I had the sign setup looking out at the beautifully decorated park, removed her blindfold and got down on one knee. And then I waited…and waited…and waited. Erica was so shocked she was speechless and barely even breathing! I finally had to ask her the question verbally to get any response. Of course she said yes!

From there I had our photographer friend return and take a few more pictures, this time without any blindfolds, and we headed back to her apartment so that she could get ready for the dinner reservations I had made at Traditions Restaurant. We dined in the “Vault” which is an original bank vault (the restaurant was a bank before it became a restaurant) turned private-dining-room-for-two.

And thus ends the events of a perfectly planned and executed proposal. So we’re getting’ hitched!