Team Banana Wedding!
It finally happened. After over 9 years of dating, 5 years of living in sin, and 7 months of home ownership, I am officially engaged to my partner in crime Baron Zemm. It happened on Wednesday, February 10th. The quick summary of how it went down is at the bottom under the ‘more’ link if you wish to read.
Sparklor, the engagement Ring
Now that I’ve had a few days to share the news with family, close friends and then the greater internet – I must say how happy I feel. In fact, I’m actually very surprised about how happy I am. I never imagined I would be this happy to be engaged. It’s almost a bit scary. I’m thoroughly warmed by all the well-wishes and congrats from people. They all seem so genuinely happy for me and I’m pleasantly shocked.
I’ve always been a bit cynical about love and romance, even when I’ve been in this amazing relationship. I have a bit of issue with the corporate and commercial nature of weddings vs. what the real meaning of marriage should be. There are a whole lot of bananular thoughts in my head.
Regardless, I’m really happy to make it official. I’m very touched at the fact that Baron went through the process to express himself in this way and it really does mean a lot to me. I feel so redonkulously blessed that I’m a little afraid to cross the street as I fear I may be struck down soon to even out the good karma.
Another thing? Google released a suite of wedding planning templates for google docs. What could be more perfect for my nerd tendencies? Nothing!
The Engagement
Baron was surprisingly pro-active in booking us a winterlicous reservation at Canoe. He could only get 10pm, which was fine. I suspected nothing. At the end of our meal he slid forward a small white gift bag and said “this is for you”. I was still innocent and thought maybe just a nice gift to top off a nice meal… Once I opened up the white bag I saw the signature Tiffany’s blue gift bag and I knew Inside this was the small square box with white ribbon. Inside that was the small black ring box. I opened it up and there staring at me was a beautiful ring. I had to close it right away to process it all. The whole time I was saying “omg omg really? you’re really doing this?”
He stretched his hands across the table and asked “will you marry me?” to which I replied “yes of course”. He also mentioned that he realized that all he needs in his life is me. *d’aww*.
The restaurant was rather empty but a few people were kind of looking. Since we were just finished up I couldn’t wait to get out of there and put the ring on in privacy. This happened at union station waiting for the street car (I know, I go from the most beautiful view/surroundings at canoe to the grossest). It was amazing. I was just processing it all that night but I was smiling ear to ear. I’m also sure I said a lot of other stupid things but it’s a bit of a blur.
1 Comment to Team Banana Wedding!
aww congrats! that is awesome. all the best for you both!!
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February 14, 2010