Who chose your engagement ring?

[Ware Bears]

We chose mine together

 

[ravengirl]

Well I will do the short version, It all really started on Sept. 11 2001 which was the first day of our holiday, needless to say everything was overshadowed and as much as we tried to lose ourselves in the magic heartache for others was always a second away.
Fast foreword to Sept 11, 2002, the first day of our holiday and we had booked a table with Pooh and friends at Tony's Tavern as the Crystal Palace was under refit, Mark knows I need to start the holiday with a big hug from my main donkey so off we went to have breakfast.

after they had finished bringing us fruit, Mark said he was nipping to the loo, I did not think anything was unusual, soon after piglet came over and my first thought is that Mark is missing this and then tigger came over and started throwing confetti all over me... I will still sitting by myself and did not have any clue, but everyone in the restaurant was STARING at me as no one else got the confetti treatment.

Mark returned soon after and I told him that he had just missed tigger and piglet and they had cucked a load of confetti over me, soon my main donkey, eeyore, comes trundling over with pooh, piglet, and tigger. Eeyore gives me tons of hugs as I am sitting down and I see the others have joined round the table, on the last hug, as I cannot see a thing because his face is sooo... well.. huge and was covering mine, he moves completely away amd I see my fruit is gone and in it's place is a little pillow, and then eeyore grabs my hand in a motion to stand and puts a little black box on the pillow, at which point mark stands up and asks me to marry him.... I was a crying wreck as I said yes, applause broke out and confetti flew, and I did not have one clue about any of this. Mark had organized all of this from the U.K.
We have been dusted by the pixie dust again as something extra special happened 3 days later that was unplanned.

We were at MGM, just chatting to a CM while waiting to see the Beauty and the Beast show she asked random bits about us i.e. where are you staying, where are you from etc. She was really lovely and we told her about the engagement as she was the only other person who knew, well, besides the entire restaurant that is, and she thought it was soooo romantic, mark mentioned that we call each other beauty and beast as nicknames, well, he does call me demon llama often as well, but thought better to mention that!

When we returned to POFQ that evening and opened the door, I smelt it... the overpowering scent of roses. We walked into the room and on the table was a huge engagement card signed from Belle and Beast and one perfect red rose, it was all arranged in such a beautiful way with care and perfection, it was not ordered or expected, I was a crying wreck again and we were dumbfounded and awestruck as we knew we had been dusted.

We knew it was the lovely CM and the Beauty and the Beast stageshow that had made this happen but in the next 15 days we never saw her again.....

sorry this is soooo long and I hope you have enjoyed reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it!
Cheers!
Ella

 

[tazz23]

Oh Ella, that is such a lovely story- made me go all misty eyed!

I'm not engaged so I can't comment but Rich (dcentity2000) bought me a ring for christmas a few years ago. He had it hand-made and designed it himself- its white gold with a sparkling ruby in it, its one of the prettiest things I own and even though we're not together anymore, I haven't taken it off since the day I got it

 

[Miffy2003]

Oh what a lovely story Ella! Thank you so much for sharing that.

 

[Ware Bears]

Oh Ella, how romantic! That's certainly a tale to tell your grandchildren one day!

 

[KayleeUK]

Lovely story Ella

 

[ravengirl]

I am glad you all loved my story, even when mark has his most irritating moments, It makes me smile every time!
We are off on an another disney adventure dec 22 to jan 17th, and we can't wait , just need to figure out how to pay for it all now!
Cheers!
Ella

 

[Duggas]

We've been married 20yrs this year and I still don't have an engagement ring! Everything happened so fast when we got together, we met in the February, he asked me to marry him in the June and we got married seven weeks later in the August! We didn't even think about an engagement ring, all our money was focussed on the wedding especially as we had to pay for it all ourselves. People said it wouldn't last cos we hardly knew each other and had very little money. I think after 20 years we can confidently say to them 'You were wrong'!