Robin & Dave’s Engagement Story

1 Written by natasha on May 12, 2009 – 6:00 am

Here is Robin & Dave’s engagement story, told from Robin’s point of view. Enjoy!

“The weekend of my birthday, my then boyfriend, Dave took me to Niagara Falls for a surprise getaway. All I knew was where we were going. He booked the junior presidential suite (that’s what it was called) at the Marriott. The sitting room had a panoramic view of the Canadian falls, which was stunning.
 
Dave had made reservations for dinner at 8pm. I was in the bathroom getting ready and while blowdrying my hair, the brush got tangled and subsequently stuck. I tried to pull it out, but that only seemed to make it worse. I spent about 15 minutes trying to no avail and then started to panic. Dave tried to help me and kept saying things like “Oh no, this isn’t good.” I kept thinking “I’m going to have to go to dinner with a hairbrush stuck in my head!”
 
Finally, he got it out (thank God) and I finished getting ready. I could hear him out in the sitting room mumbling something to himself about how the lights were supposed to come on the falls at 7pm and why hadn’t they.
 
When I came out and joined him, he led me over to the window and said “Isn’t this romantic?” I looked out at the expanse of black because the lights still hadn’t come on and said “Uh, yeah.”  He gave me a birthday card, in which he’d thanked me for hanging in there with him and said he was looking forward to a lifetime of happiness with me. It’s hard to believe that at this point, I still hadn’t gotten it, but I had no clue. Then he said he had something for me and reached into his pocket and pulled out a small box. In previous conversations, I made him promise that he wouldn’t give me any more gifts in little ring-size boxes because the two previous gifts held earrings and a necklace and nearly gave me a heart attack. He got down on one knee and asked me if I’d spend the rest of my life with him. I finally got it and started to cry. When I opened the box, inside was the ring I’d picked out a year earlier in case the “opportunity ever presented itself.”
 
I later found out that the week before he’d called my dad. My dad, who’s a published author and my step mom, who’s a celebrity impressionist were getting ready to go on stage before an audience of 3,000 people. During the show, he shared with them that he’d received a phone call that day from a guy asking for his daughter’s hand in marriage. I thought it was pretty cool that they knew before I did.
 
On July 31, we’ll celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary.”

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