What a wonderful day! I am very happy for you two.
As for the engagement ring, let me share with you my story because I hear ya sistah!
So John wanted to have the ring made in Peru. It's cheaper and we could do 18K gold instead of 14K. I told him I wanted to know nothing about it, so he could design it himself and just give it to me when it was ready. We thought it would take about a month. But after a couple of months and no ring I started inquiring. Turns out first they made the ring too small and had to completely redo it. Then the word was that if was finally made but John confessed he could not figure out how to ship it because none of the shipping companies would handle jewlery. So I remember getting on the internet and trying to figure it out. So much for non-involvement, ha! After about 3 months I was basically bugging him on regular basis. Yet I was also telling him that he better devise a nice romantic proposal, poor guy. At that point we had pretty much planned the wedding but I was waiting for the ring to announce our engagement.
Finally, four months later (!) towards x-mas the ring arrived via currier and John had to go pick it up from a neighboring town. Because of his work schedule and other things he could never do it. The day before x-mas eve he was supposed to go, but then he called me and told me he could not after all because his apartment flooded and he had to clean up. I believed him because his apartment would flood with heavy rains before. So he came to my house(I lived with my parents and he'd come and spend a coupel of nights during the week with me there) in the evening. He was acting a little funny and I was suspicious something was up. So I straight out asked him if he picked up the ring and he said yes, he could not stand it to keep a secret from me any longer. So there we were, sitting on a mattress in my parent's living room (it was a small one-bedroom apartment and I slept in the living room floor), and he pulls out a box. I practically tried to grab it out of his hands but he would not let me. He said that he at least wanted to say something before giving me the ring, that he loved me and wanted to spend the rest of his life with me. Well, those words kind of went into one year and out the other because I was shaking to finally get my goddamn ring! LOL So there is was, totally unromantic but interesting nonetheless. Then I went to the kitchen and showed my parents the ring and announced my engagement :)
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As for the engagement ring, let me share with you my story because I hear ya sistah!
So John wanted to have the ring made in Peru. It's cheaper and we could do 18K gold instead of 14K. I told him I wanted to know nothing about it, so he could design it himself and just give it to me when it was ready. We thought it would take about a month. But after a couple of months and no ring I started inquiring. Turns out first they made the ring too small and had to completely redo it. Then the word was that if was finally made but John confessed he could not figure out how to ship it because none of the shipping companies would handle jewlery. So I remember getting on the internet and trying to figure it out. So much for non-involvement, ha! After about 3 months I was basically bugging him on regular basis. Yet I was also telling him that he better devise a nice romantic proposal, poor guy. At that point we had pretty much planned the wedding but I was waiting for the ring to announce our engagement.
Finally, four months later (!) towards x-mas the ring arrived via currier and John had to go pick it up from a neighboring town. Because of his work schedule and other things he could never do it. The day before x-mas eve he was supposed to go, but then he called me and told me he could not after all because his apartment flooded and he had to clean up. I believed him because his apartment would flood with heavy rains before. So he came to my house(I lived with my parents and he'd come and spend a coupel of nights during the week with me there) in the evening. He was acting a little funny and I was suspicious something was up. So I straight out asked him if he picked up the ring and he said yes, he could not stand it to keep a secret from me any longer. So there we were, sitting on a mattress in my parent's living room (it was a small one-bedroom apartment and I slept in the living room floor), and he pulls out a box. I practically tried to grab it out of his hands but he would not let me. He said that he at least wanted to say something before giving me the ring, that he loved me and wanted to spend the rest of his life with me. Well, those words kind of went into one year and out the other because I was shaking to finally get my goddamn ring! LOL So there is was, totally unromantic but interesting nonetheless. Then I went to the kitchen and showed my parents the ring and announced my engagement :)