Thanks to our pro-gay vendor Angela Cappetta, for shooting us this winter engagement shoot.
We met on OKCupid, an online dating site. It took us a long time to meet in person because of scheduling conflicts, vacations, etc. By the time we met in person we had logged so many hours of phone calls, emails and texts that we felt like old friends. I (Kim) had been visiting my dad in North Carolina and brought Randie a huge home-grown squash as a gift on our first date.
First, Randie surprised me when we were in Florida visiting my mother and took me on a day trip to Miami. It turned out that a ring I’d fallen in love with online happened to be at an estate jewelry place (Fay Cullen) located in Miami only an hour away from my mom’s house. She had to do all sorts of security checks and secret prep work to get me there and I was so shocked. The ring was even more beautiful in person and the entire experience of our private viewing and her secret plan to get me there felt so special.
BUT THEN…she made me wait! She took the ring and hid it away and I agonized everyday waiting for her proposal. Weeks felt like years. In the meantime my sister got engaged. I was dying, my parents and sister, who all knew about the ring, were dying; we were all dying! Everyday I wondered if it was THE day and almost every day I made some comment about NOT being engaged. She was secretly enjoying the torment and at the same time, going crazy from my constant nagging. I had suspicions she would propose at our favorite super cheesy hibachi restaurant because nothing says romance like a Japanese chef flipping a shrimp into his hat, but I was wrong. While we were vacationing upstate at a farmhouse with my friends Randie took me outside on the porch to watch the snowfall. She got down on one knee and I, in turn, got down on one knee and she said some romantic stuff and I cried and said yes (this part is kind of blurry because I was mostly hyperventilating). We then went back inside and celebrated with all our friends. It was perfect.
We were engaged and despite all the pre-engagement talks about how Randie didn’t want an engagement ring, I knew she was missing out on half the fun of being engaged by not having one. A month after our engagement we were driving back from a meeting with a wedding vendor and I convinced her to stop at the cheesy hibachi restaurant. Over dinner I said, “You know I really thought you were gonna propose here.” She said, that that had been the plan, but since I was clearly going to explode if I had to wait another week, she did it at the farmhouse instead. I asked how she would have proposed at the restaurant and she described the entire proposal plan: out in the Japanese Garden by the waterfall with the thumping sounds of the restaurant’s nightclub in the distance (seriously I can’t express how amazingly kitchy this place is). After dinner we walked through the garden to the car and I stopped her and recreated the proposal as she had explained it over dinner. When I pulled out her ring, I thought she was gonna fall over. She was totally surprised and so excited, it turns out she had had wanted a ring afterall.
location at Full Moon Farm www.fullmoonmedusa.com
Congrats! I love your proposal stories!
What a romance. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
I love these ladies :)
you two are beautiful together!! your dog is cute also!
Oh wow!! I about cried just reading this! So sweet! :-)