The engagement story & a little history..
I've been lurking on the wedding section of these boards for about 9 months now dreaming that one day I could be planning my very own wedding and even more of a dream that it would be a disney wedding. I kept dropping hints, ok more like there was no hinting just complete obviousness from that I wanted to get enagaged. Since I met Darren he had always been the type of person that never wanted to get married, he had no desire to do so and always said he would never bother
after being with him for a while and relising he was the person i wanted to spend the rest of my life with i become disapointed that he felt like that, growing up i always hoped i'd meet my price charming, we'd get married and live happily ever after as they say.
A little while on and it seemed Darren was having a different attitude, i always used to say to him when he'd mention about never wanting to get married that he only felt like that because he hadn't met the right person, i was beginning to think i was right. For about the last year or two we have both talked about getting enagged abit and he had actually said yes he would marry me but went on about how the average wedding cost £22,000 and we just don't have that sort of money.
Roll on to when i started coming on these wedding boards and i really wouldn't shut up to him about getting engaged, his issue was now that he never had the money for an engagement ring and how it would take ages to save up blah blah blah everytime i mentioned weddings he'd entertain me by pretending to listen
and replying with the same old 'we don't have the money, to have the wedding you deserve' and i just used to say to him he was using it as an excuse as he just didn't want to marry me (i'm not nasty honest, this wasn't said in a nasty *****y way im always sarcastic with him like that)
Fast forward to September of this year and we were heading on our holiday something that I had been planning for over a year. We were heading to the USA for 16 nights visiting
Disneyland California, Las Vegas, San Diego & LA. In the run up to the trip the proposal hints started again
(i know, i know but when you really want something you can't help but keep going on till you get your way right?) and I dropped in that I would love nothing more than to get engaged while at Disneyland during the fireworks this was just brushed under the carpet along with all my other hints (or at least that's what I thought)
We left the UK on Tuesday 1st September and our first 6 nights were being spent in Anaheim visiting Disney on the thursday, friday & sunday. We spent the whole morning in Disneyland on the thursday from opening till about 1pm when we headed back to the hotel for an afternoon break before going back to Disneyland around 5pm to see the park at night, watch the fireworks and just enjoy being at Disney (ok, so i was the only going to actually enjoy being at Disney). We got changed and headed back to the park that evening, through bag search where once i was through carried on walking well Darren didn't have a bag so he was bound to be behind me, right? WRONG! I looked round and the lady at bag search was talking to him humm, wonder what that's all about
In the park, i was full of energy and ready to enjoy my Disney filled evening, now normally Darren is a very bubbly, chatty and noisey person but he was not being himself at all hardly talking much, giving me short conversations and answers when I talked to him, umm surely he wasn't sick of Disney already? we had only spent a morning here already and had 2 more days on our tickets
We walked around the park having a lovely time and just enjoying be on holiday, doing some rides but nope something still wasn't right with Darren he was still very quiet, he wasn't even this quiet or appearing this bored at Disneyland Paris and he didn't exactly like it there but he enjoyed the trip still and was still smiling and himself the whole time so why was he acting weirdly?. Deep down I was hoping he was nervous about something
but trying not to get my hopes up infear of being disapointed i tried not to think about that too much.
As the evening went on and it got later he started going on about what time the fireworks are and how he didn't want to be in the huge crowds watching them (he doesn't like crowds & ques) and was asking me the time constantly, then again what time the fireworks were and this carried on from about 7pm till the fireworks at 8.40. Thoughts were running through my mind but then i just figured he was just wanting to go and knew that once the fireworks were over we could get out of Mickeymouse land for the night.
I went on Big thunder railroad on my own (Darren doesn't 'do' any sort of fast ride or rides with big drops) and once off it was about 8.20 again I was asked the time, how long till the fireworks and as it was only 20 minutes to go Darren suggested we go find somewhere to watch them from we had a little walk around and decided to sit on a bench not far from BTMRR were we just sat and relaxed, talking well a few words from Darren hardly a conversation
and right near a spot we'd be able to see the fireworks and at the moment looked like we'd pretty much be alone watching them apart from another couple of people that were in the same area.
Well the fireworks started and we got up to stand over by some railing to lean against watching they were so beautiful and it was at this point i just remeber all over again why I love Disney so much it's just such a magical place. Darren was stood cuddling me and began saying how much he loved me and how romantic it was, well that shocked me in itself romantic? I didn't think he even knew what that word was let alone how to have a romantic situation
so I made some sarcastic comment about that and looked up carrying on watching the fireworks and it was at that moment (now i can't remember it all word for word as it was all such a blur as was most of the remainder of the night as i was just in my own little world) but I remember him saying something about being romantic and when I looked down it was there shinning in all it's glory a beautiful ring, everything was so perfect and just the way I had always dreamed it would be
I couldn't hold back the tears and started to cry
After the shock was over and we finally let each other out of the cuddle, fireworks over etc we headed out of Disney to go have a nice meal like planned at Rainforest Cafe (I love that place) over dinner he explained how nervous he had been all evening, which was why he was so quiet and explained that the lady at the bag search had stopped him because she wanted to know what was in his pocket and he was so worried she was going to spoil it all, and was asking how i didn't notice he had hardly removed hes hands from hes pockets all night, looking back at the photos he has hes hand in his pocket in almost every single picture gripping onto the ring for dear life
I couldn't wear the ring because it was too big but Darren knew it would be, apparently when he went to buy it he hadn't relised it would take them weeks to order my size in so he had to take the bigger size they had in the shop and when we got home take it back to order my correct size. So we got home on 18th September and the next day we went to the jewellers to take the ring back and order my size I was so sad when they took it back then said it would be upto 27 days till they get the right size it, as the weeks went by I have been so desperate to have my ring back and just be able to wear it finally on tuesday I was able to go pick it and now it's sat perfectly on my finger
Here's some pictures of the gorgeous ring, its the exact style that I had always loved & hoped for...
And here's me with my enegagement pin I managed to get on our last night at Disney (excuse the pizza haha), plus a couple more pictures from the last night on our very special & memorable visit to Disneyland
i must get back over to your TR and finish reading i've not been on much lately.
I hope you can find the dress to try it on! It's gorgeous!
. Since I got engaged and decided on a wedding in Disneyworld I hoped and prayed they would come but we wasn't sure what was going on as she had been very ill this past year and was due to go for an assessment for a lung transplant last wednesday but unfortunately she didn't even get that far.
and no longer suffering. 
