Thanks Erica for sharing your secret proposal with us! I loooove this proposal story! So sneaky ;)
In our free time Christina and I love to play Scrabble, so I incorporated Scrabble in to the proposal. We had plans to go out to dinner at our favorite little cafe. I dropped off a Scrabble board to the cafe on my way home from work and slipped the ring in the tile bag. When we got to the cafe, I non-chalantly walked over to get the Scrabble board and suggested to Christina that we should play. She was hesitant and just wanted to order our food. I insisted.
We drew letters to see who would go first. Alas, we both drew the same letter. So she stuck her hand in the bag to draw again, but peaked in to the bag, hoping to snag a good letter. She saw the ring, pulled it out and gasped…that’s when I got down on my knee and asked her “Will you grow old with me?”
Our family and friends mean the world to Christina and I. We want our wedding to be a celebration of our love for those that play an integral role in each of our lives and in our love. We are planning a September 2011 wedding in Maine!
Christina and I met during the summer of my senior year of college in Ogunquit, Maine. I was living in Boston with a friend for the summer and hitched rides and hopped the Greyhound any opportunity I could get to go north to see her. After a year and a half of weekend road-trips up and down the coast of New England, we decided that it was time to stop pumping the gas and paying the tolls and hitch up together- and what better place than Boston? After graduating from Colby College, I moved to Allston and went to Boston University for my Masters. I recently graduated with Master’s in Mass Communication (and have the debt to prove it).
I currently work as a strategic analyst at Mullen Advertising in Boston (but today is actually my last day- I will be doing my PhD at
the University of Oregon) and Christina works at Metro Credit Union in Chelsea as an Assistant Manager. We are moving cross-country this weekend with our 2 cats Oliver and Phoebe and our newly rescued dog Charley.
All images by Dias Photography
SUCH a cute proposal story! Scrabble truly is the most romantic of all the board games. Cognratulations!
Wow, that’s a GREAT idea! Haven’t thought of Scrabble being romantic before, but yeah, actually it is a really sweet thing to do since people seem to come back to it as they get older. Perfect!
so romantic and cute! and what a beautiful ring!
i’m actually curious to find out how they’ll move across the country with two cats… just in case we need to do something similiar in the future.
I LOVE this! Congratulations!!! Best of luck on your exciting move!
Great story! Good luck with the move!
You two are so cute! Awesome proposal! I emailed this to my girlfriend as soon as I finished reading it because of the cuteness! We’re also thinking about moving from the east coast to the west coast so she can pursue her PhD. I wish you two the best of luck with the moving, the wedding planning and all else!
Very awesome! Good luck!
So sweet! I love that you had someone there to take pictures as it happened. Congratulations and good luck!