Max moved into a new apartment on June 20th for his senior year of college, after living in the dorms and campus run apartments for 3 years. We had talked about getting married and how if we did, I would move to Riverside with him and stay in said apartment. I helped him move everything from his old place to the new place. We finished with most everything by Sunday, with just a few odds and ends left in his old place. On Sunday evening Max told me he was going to get the rest of the stuff. He took forever to get home, and then proceeded to tell me he was making dinner, and I had to stay in the bedroom and not peek. So I stayed nicely in the bedroom, knowing what was coming, but not knowing how I would react. I was playing Candy Crush on my laptop.
"Baby, you can come out now!" I jokingly yelled "Can I finish my game first?" But Max didn't hear me (which I'm glad of). He had put a blanket over the shutter doors so I couldn't look through the cracks. So I took off the blankets and opened the doors.
Leading from the doors to Max was a trail of rose petals which went through to the living room to the dining room area where Max was standing. He had put on a sweater and black blazer and was standing next to our dining room table, which had candles lit in candle holders, a bouquet in the middle, and dinner set up.
I just cried the whole time.
I walked to him and he told me this wonderful and adorably rehearsed speech about our lives, and how we were able to still have fun even when doing something hard like moving everything into a new place. He said that we had already taken one step in our lives by getting an apartment together, and he wanted to start another journey which began with the question "Will you marry me?"
Like I said, I just cried. I didn't even know if I had said "Yes" or just made a sound.
He put on my ring, and the wedding band that went with it, because he wanted to see how it looked. The little sass remembered that I had said I wanted a bridal set. And then after lots of hugs and kisses, Max said to smile for the camera, which he had set up to record the whole thing. And then I got all embarrassed and went to turn it off. But he said "She said yes!" into the camera, and I started laughing. So the video ends nicely.
Oh, and the whole time "If It's the Beaches" was playing in the background. Because something about the lines "If it's the beaches sands you want then you will have them, if it's the mountains rolling rivers you will have them." and "I will rearrange my plans and change for you." kind of really mean a lot for me. I've rearranged a lot of my life to be with the man I love more than anything. And I really believe that he'd give me the mountain's rolling rivers if he could.
And then we ate dinner. I nabbed a good man. Filet mignon, biscuits, baked potatoes, and salad. The only thing he forgot was the cups for water, which he said he forgot from being nervous. I asked him why he was nervous since he knew I'd say yes, and he said he just wanted to make everything perfect and memorable and was worried about messing something up. (He didn't.)
He told me stories about ring shopping with his family, and how he knew that my ring was the ring when he saw it. And I swear, I just cried the entire time.
We tried to take some pictures, but my makeup was running down my face, and I look kind of silly. I've included the higher quality pictures on another entry, these are pictures from my phone (except the last one).
Here's my ring:
Here's the rose petal trail leading to the table:
Here's the table set up (after we had let the candles burn down). Max even put rose petals on the chairs and table around the food.
And this is what the kitchen looked like after dinner and preparing everything. Max was saying how you never see the clean-up part of the proposal in movies or anything.
And here's us! (I edited my smudged make-up out of the picture hahaha)
Holly and Max, engaged June 23, 2013
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