I laid in my bed anxious and eager to do what I had planned for the next day, to propose to my girlfriend. I’d been planning for over seven months to propose on my family vacation at the beach in Galveston during “family pictures.”
My plan was about to be reality and due to the nervous energy I had, I couldn’t sleep. Quickly I began to think over all the moments in our relationship, our mountain highs and valley lows together.
As I did, I looked at the pictures from the beginning of the three and a half years of us dating, all the way to the present day. I couldn’t help but cry, they were tears of joy. Every memory of every second with her was so special.
Looking back on our relationship remembering how we fell in love and reached where we are now, just amplified how ready I was to propose tomorrow.
I faded off into sleep and woke up before my alarm the next morning, which never happens. Even my body knew, today was special and the first step towards marrying the love of my life. Throughout the entire day I played it cool as if it were an average day, going to the beach with my family and even playing video games.
The time came for everybody to get ready for “family pictures” and the nerves began to hit. So much so that while I was getting ready I was praying to God for peace, then I asked my best friend to call and pray for me, then my dad to pray for me right before we left.
It was go time, I was ready and awaited my soon to be fiancee to join me in the family car. As she walked down the stairs in an elegant green dress, I got reminded of how everytime I look into her eyes I just fall more in love with her.
We head to the beach and begin to take family photos, progressively moving to sibling photos and then couples photos. Then our turn is up as we drift towards my proposal spot.
She had no idea, but the rest of my family and her family would be joining us at the beachside, where I also had a beach picnic rented with her favorite flowers. All the family began to walk up and the picnic was 20 feet in front of us, but she didn’t realize, rather she thought we were ruining someone else’s proposal.
Then she saw my face and uttered the words: “Wait, are you proposing?” She continued to ask until I pointed out who was walking up, and as she looked I grabbed the ring from the photographer.
There I stood with a box in my hand and we both began to cry as we locked eyes. I kneeled down on a knee saying “I love you so much. You are the love of my life, and you’ve given me the best three and a half years I could ask for. I want forever and ever and always with you. Isabella Halene Marie Scamehorn, will you marry me?”
She said yes and continually nodded as I slid the ring on her finger, then I received the best hug of my life that I never wanted to end, as we held each other crying in happiness. When we finished embracing, we turned and celebrated with our family and got photos together, then they left and we took our engagement pictures.
After the photographer departed, we finally sat at the beach picnic at sunset with no other disturbance besides the sound of the waves. It began to set in, we were getting married and we talked with endless joy about it.
I sat in awe of what became the best night of my life to this point. I did it, I am going to marry the woman of my dreams and soon she’ll be the Mrs. to my Mr. Smith.