princecharming16
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The moment you have all been waiting for....
I finished my side of the story!
Thank You, and Goodnight!
I finished my side of the story!
Thank You, and Goodnight!
Our Magical Trip of a Million Dreams, Wishes & Surprises~Engaged at Disney(6/26 p30)
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Belle's Mom Tink
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Where is it? Where is it?
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Hey...No fair! Post it for real!!!
princecharming16
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You mean you wanted me to post it? I thought you just wanted me to write it. 
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You mean you wanted me to post it? I thought you just wanted me to write it.
You are killing us with suspense!!
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You mean you wanted me to post it? I thought you just wanted me to write it.
now thats not right!! were waiting...o so patiently haha
princecharming16
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Alright, alright, here it comes.
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princecharming16
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Well you all wanted to know what my side of the story was, so here it is. Im going to try and set it up for you as best as I can.
WAY BACK WHEN:
Cinderella16 and I met at our place of work back in 2001. I liked her since the first day I met her
. I would constantly ask my friends at school how I should go about asking her out. She was in H.S. and I was in college. My friends kept telling me to grow some man and just ask her out. I could not do this. I was a chicken! After I annoyed my friends with this question long enough they figured I never would never ask her out and they gave me cr*p about it. One day I replied You just watch. One day I will marry that girl. Then my friends really let me have it because we werent even dating yet. Actually, we were no where even close to dating!
Theres a long story in the middle about how we got to dating, but I am not going to include that here. Long story short after a year, we were dating! Yay!
THE DREADED QUESTION:
After dating for about 3 years the infamous and dreaded question came about
*POKE* When can we get married?!
*POKE POKE* Can we get married now?
This is the question every man is just dying to hear literally! I told her each and every time that she would have to graduate from college first before that could even be considered. It wasnt so bad in year three, but the question did come about every now and then.
Year four comes around and I am getting poked on a daily basis with the same question and/or statement Lets get married! When can we get married? I WANNA GET MARRIED!!! I can tell the harassment is not going to stop until we actually get married. The only way to avoid this topic was to reply with You have to graduate first!
GRADUATE FIRST!:
Little did she know, I was already planning on proposing
. I was in the mist of creating my master plan! In order to make sure she had no clue about the master plan I made sure I p*ssed her off every time she asked about us getting married. I made sure I told her that she had to graduate college before we could even consider engagement/marriage. I knew if I stuck with this excuse and made marriage seem like something far far away in the future, she would get annoyed and not suspect anything. I succeeded
. and sometimes paid for it that night!
It was in 2006, after our St. Louis vacation, that I knew I wanted to propose to her. I actually would have done it before June 19th, 2007 but I wanted to make the day the most memorable I possibly could. Plus, she said that there was no other acceptable place to propose other than Disney! This meant I would have to wait about a year! This worked out okay though because it gave me plenty of time to plan. I would leave ring advertisements out in places I knew she would find them to ensure she would look through them and give me comments about what she liked and did not like. She always wanted to go to the jewelry shops when we were at the malls to try on engagement rings but I always told her no and we continued walking. I know that seems mean and all (especially to the women), but if I let her go in there and try something on, then she would probably begin to suspect something was up. So I had to rely on the mailing advertisements.
Since the only acceptable place to propose (according to her) was Disney, I had to find a way to get to Disney without her suspecting something. I considered asking her Uncle Tony who lives in Florida to invite us over and then maybe we could get to Disney that way, but then I figured, since my family likes to take a Disney vacation every anyways, I will just use that excuse. It was a bit easier to plan it that way anyways. Every year my family went to Disney was in July. This was a problem because I knew I wanted to propose to her on our five year anniversary in June! If all of a sudden we went in June and during our anniversary there is no doubt in my mind she would have figured something out! Enter my Mother! My Mom knew I wanted to propose to her and was willing to help any way she could.
Since talk about going to Disney in 2007 was only brought up once or twice and never made official, I told my Mom that she should be the one to plan it. This way it looks like her planning the vacation and not me less reasons for Cindrella16 to be suspicious. My mother told us that she would not be able to go in July this year since work would be really busy and that June would be a much better time to go gee, isnt that nice how that worked out.. wink wink!
When Cindrella16 saw the weeks we would be going (June 15th End of June), she immediately shouted out Weere going to the Magic Kindom on the 19th!. Now, Cinderella16 thinks that she has planned our 5 year anniversary day
when all along, that is exactly what I wanted her to do and planned for her to do. Im a genius when it comes to these things. 
Now Cinderella16 thinks that my Mom is planning the vacation and she also thinks that herself is planning our anniversary day. Ha!
My plan is going nicely. So far everything has gone as planned and she is totally unaware that this is all my doing. Since she thinks this is a normal family vacation and that I am broke and cant afford a ring, she totally doesnt suspect anything. She just thinks its going to be the best anniversary ever .which it will be!
Now that we have our vacation dates set, I let Cinderella16 go nuts with planning. I think she actually gets off on it! She is planning away figuring out dining and what days to go to each park. I just kind of play along and agree to whatever she wants. The more she thinks she is planning it, the less she thinks that I am planning it. This pretty much keeps her busy all year long. The more she is busy with this, the less I get poked and asked the dreaded question.
TIME FOR A RING!
I suppose that if I want her to say yes, I better have one of those sparkly thingies that girls love so much. My adventure for an engagement ring has begun. I got many ideas from her after planting the jewelry magazines and I am pretty sure I know what she likes. I bought her a promise ring before and I thought I remembered what they sized it to, but I wasnt sure. I had to make sure I got the sizing just right since we would be in Florida and would not be able to get a ring sized any time soon. If it didnt fit she would be disappointed for 2 weeks because she would not be able to wear it. And if it was too big, she would wear it all the time and always be afraid it was going to fall of. Sizing was critical!
On some nights when I was over she would be in her pajamas and ready for bed at like 5:00pm. This meant she took off all her jewelry and left it on her dresser. When she went to the bathroom I would get up real fast, find some paper and a pencil, and trace her ring. This helped in making sure I got the right size for her.
I went to a few major jewelry shops and didnt see anything I liked. They all had yellow in them and were flawed. This does not meet my standards! I had to find the biggest, clearest, flawless, shiniest thing I could. I finally found a stone that met my standards at Roger & Hollands (which is Midwest locations only, IL, IN, MI, and WI). It did not even have a setting yet, but the stone was beautiful. It was a 1.52 karat ring that I knew she would just love. We came to an agreement on price and then she gave me the total with tax. My jaw had dropped . Tax is ridiculously high when youre spending that much money! When the sales woman saw my response to the tax she must have felt bad for me because she mentioned there was a way around it. If I could ship the ring to a state they didnt have a store in, I did not have to pay tax. This caught my attention. Unfortunately, all of my family lives in Illinois and I did not know anyone else out of state that I could trust.
CALLING IN A FAVOR!
After I thought about it for a moment I thought of someone who lived in Florida I could trust. It was Cinderell16s uncle! We only met a few times but each time I met him it always felt like I knew him my entire life. I also knew he didnt have a big mouth like the rest of her family so I would be okay in that department. I gave him a call and asked him if he would mind accepting a package on my behalf. I learned that when asking someone to accept a package without telling them what it is makes them think your doing drugs.
I told him my plan and then he told me congratulations and that he would be happy to accept the package. This was awesome! I am going to save a butt load of cash this way. I couldnt have asked him this at a better time either because he was actually going to be flying out to Illinois in 3 weeks for a business conference, which meant he could deliver the ring to me.
I kept in contact with her Uncle Tony to make sure he received the ring. It was getting close to the time he would be coming to Illinois and he still did not receive anything. I called the jewelers to see if they had shipped it and it turned out they just shipped it the day I called.
It was now 2 days before he would be leaving for IL and he still did not receive anything. This was not good! It was especially not good since he would not be home the next day and the package required a signature. It still did not arrive on day 2.
The day before he is scheduled to leave he will not be home to accept the package. He would be in and out all day. He works from home. He left notes on his front door for UPS, FedEx, and DHL to leave the package and accept the note as his signature. When he got home there was still no package!
He went to get his mail and noticed a slip in the mailbox. Turns out he left a note for every provider except the United States Postal Service! Since no one was home they left a slip in the mailbox that said they would try for redelivery in a few days. Cr*p, he is leaving tomorrow! He called the post office but the mailman has not returned to the office yet, which means neither has the package. He asked if there was any way he could get the package before tomorrow. The man at the post office said that the only way to get the package would be to find the mailman who has it and get it from him off his truck! Are you kidding me!!!!
WAY BACK WHEN:
Cinderella16 and I met at our place of work back in 2001. I liked her since the first day I met her
. I would constantly ask my friends at school how I should go about asking her out. She was in H.S. and I was in college. My friends kept telling me to grow some man and just ask her out. I could not do this. I was a chicken! After I annoyed my friends with this question long enough they figured I never would never ask her out and they gave me cr*p about it. One day I replied You just watch. One day I will marry that girl. Then my friends really let me have it because we werent even dating yet. Actually, we were no where even close to dating! Theres a long story in the middle about how we got to dating, but I am not going to include that here. Long story short after a year, we were dating! Yay!
THE DREADED QUESTION:
After dating for about 3 years the infamous and dreaded question came about
*POKE* When can we get married?!
*POKE POKE* Can we get married now?
This is the question every man is just dying to hear literally! I told her each and every time that she would have to graduate from college first before that could even be considered. It wasnt so bad in year three, but the question did come about every now and then.
Year four comes around and I am getting poked on a daily basis with the same question and/or statement Lets get married! When can we get married? I WANNA GET MARRIED!!! I can tell the harassment is not going to stop until we actually get married. The only way to avoid this topic was to reply with You have to graduate first!
GRADUATE FIRST!:
Little did she know, I was already planning on proposing
. I was in the mist of creating my master plan! In order to make sure she had no clue about the master plan I made sure I p*ssed her off every time she asked about us getting married. I made sure I told her that she had to graduate college before we could even consider engagement/marriage. I knew if I stuck with this excuse and made marriage seem like something far far away in the future, she would get annoyed and not suspect anything. I succeeded
. and sometimes paid for it that night!It was in 2006, after our St. Louis vacation, that I knew I wanted to propose to her. I actually would have done it before June 19th, 2007 but I wanted to make the day the most memorable I possibly could. Plus, she said that there was no other acceptable place to propose other than Disney! This meant I would have to wait about a year! This worked out okay though because it gave me plenty of time to plan. I would leave ring advertisements out in places I knew she would find them to ensure she would look through them and give me comments about what she liked and did not like. She always wanted to go to the jewelry shops when we were at the malls to try on engagement rings but I always told her no and we continued walking. I know that seems mean and all (especially to the women), but if I let her go in there and try something on, then she would probably begin to suspect something was up. So I had to rely on the mailing advertisements.
Since the only acceptable place to propose (according to her) was Disney, I had to find a way to get to Disney without her suspecting something. I considered asking her Uncle Tony who lives in Florida to invite us over and then maybe we could get to Disney that way, but then I figured, since my family likes to take a Disney vacation every anyways, I will just use that excuse. It was a bit easier to plan it that way anyways. Every year my family went to Disney was in July. This was a problem because I knew I wanted to propose to her on our five year anniversary in June! If all of a sudden we went in June and during our anniversary there is no doubt in my mind she would have figured something out! Enter my Mother! My Mom knew I wanted to propose to her and was willing to help any way she could.
Since talk about going to Disney in 2007 was only brought up once or twice and never made official, I told my Mom that she should be the one to plan it. This way it looks like her planning the vacation and not me less reasons for Cindrella16 to be suspicious. My mother told us that she would not be able to go in July this year since work would be really busy and that June would be a much better time to go gee, isnt that nice how that worked out.. wink wink!
When Cindrella16 saw the weeks we would be going (June 15th End of June), she immediately shouted out Weere going to the Magic Kindom on the 19th!. Now, Cinderella16 thinks that she has planned our 5 year anniversary day
when all along, that is exactly what I wanted her to do and planned for her to do. Im a genius when it comes to these things. Now Cinderella16 thinks that my Mom is planning the vacation and she also thinks that herself is planning our anniversary day. Ha!
My plan is going nicely. So far everything has gone as planned and she is totally unaware that this is all my doing. Since she thinks this is a normal family vacation and that I am broke and cant afford a ring, she totally doesnt suspect anything. She just thinks its going to be the best anniversary ever .which it will be!
Now that we have our vacation dates set, I let Cinderella16 go nuts with planning. I think she actually gets off on it! She is planning away figuring out dining and what days to go to each park. I just kind of play along and agree to whatever she wants. The more she thinks she is planning it, the less she thinks that I am planning it. This pretty much keeps her busy all year long. The more she is busy with this, the less I get poked and asked the dreaded question.
TIME FOR A RING!
I suppose that if I want her to say yes, I better have one of those sparkly thingies that girls love so much. My adventure for an engagement ring has begun. I got many ideas from her after planting the jewelry magazines and I am pretty sure I know what she likes. I bought her a promise ring before and I thought I remembered what they sized it to, but I wasnt sure. I had to make sure I got the sizing just right since we would be in Florida and would not be able to get a ring sized any time soon. If it didnt fit she would be disappointed for 2 weeks because she would not be able to wear it. And if it was too big, she would wear it all the time and always be afraid it was going to fall of. Sizing was critical!
On some nights when I was over she would be in her pajamas and ready for bed at like 5:00pm. This meant she took off all her jewelry and left it on her dresser. When she went to the bathroom I would get up real fast, find some paper and a pencil, and trace her ring. This helped in making sure I got the right size for her.
I went to a few major jewelry shops and didnt see anything I liked. They all had yellow in them and were flawed. This does not meet my standards! I had to find the biggest, clearest, flawless, shiniest thing I could. I finally found a stone that met my standards at Roger & Hollands (which is Midwest locations only, IL, IN, MI, and WI). It did not even have a setting yet, but the stone was beautiful. It was a 1.52 karat ring that I knew she would just love. We came to an agreement on price and then she gave me the total with tax. My jaw had dropped
. Tax is ridiculously high when youre spending that much money! When the sales woman saw my response to the tax she must have felt bad for me because she mentioned there was a way around it. If I could ship the ring to a state they didnt have a store in, I did not have to pay tax. This caught my attention. Unfortunately, all of my family lives in Illinois and I did not know anyone else out of state that I could trust.CALLING IN A FAVOR!
After I thought about it for a moment I thought of someone who lived in Florida I could trust. It was Cinderell16s uncle! We only met a few times but each time I met him it always felt like I knew him my entire life. I also knew he didnt have a big mouth like the rest of her family so I would be okay in that department. I gave him a call and asked him if he would mind accepting a package on my behalf. I learned that when asking someone to accept a package without telling them what it is makes them think your doing drugs.
I told him my plan and then he told me congratulations and that he would be happy to accept the package. This was awesome! I am going to save a butt load of cash this way. I couldnt have asked him this at a better time either because he was actually going to be flying out to Illinois in 3 weeks for a business conference, which meant he could deliver the ring to me.
I kept in contact with her Uncle Tony to make sure he received the ring. It was getting close to the time he would be coming to Illinois and he still did not receive anything. I called the jewelers to see if they had shipped it and it turned out they just shipped it the day I called.
It was now 2 days before he would be leaving for IL and he still did not receive anything. This was not good! It was especially not good since he would not be home the next day and the package required a signature. It still did not arrive on day 2.
The day before he is scheduled to leave he will not be home to accept the package. He would be in and out all day. He works from home. He left notes on his front door for UPS, FedEx, and DHL to leave the package and accept the note as his signature. When he got home there was still no package!
He went to get his mail and noticed a slip in the mailbox. Turns out he left a note for every provider except the United States Postal Service! Since no one was home they left a slip in the mailbox that said they would try for redelivery in a few days. Cr*p, he is leaving tomorrow! He called the post office but the mailman has not returned to the office yet, which means neither has the package. He asked if there was any way he could get the package before tomorrow. The man at the post office said that the only way to get the package would be to find the mailman who has it and get it from him off his truck! Are you kidding me!!!!
Lifelong_Dreamer
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Oh my god!!
I would have been so stressed!
I would have been so stressed!
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omg this is so exciting!!!!! can't wait for the rest of your side!
aepecoraro
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It must have brought a lot of stress to you...Cant wait to read the rest!
Belle's Mom Tink
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Oh no a cliffhanger!!!!
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what a cliff hanger... can't wait for the rest
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OMG!! im a new subscriber, and this thread is so exciting!!!
thanks for the pictures and the stories!!!
thanks for the pictures and the stories!!!
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Great writing skills, and the cliff hanger off all cliff hangers...
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YAY! This is so exciting! I can't wait to read more! 
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This is totally exciting...can't wait to hear more. A real cliffhanger...
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