Popping the question

[CCass]

My wife and I discussed marriage many times before I ever "popped the question". We had already agreed on most of the tough subjects: kids, holidays, religion, etc...

We had even discussed possible dates for the wedding. I was a poor college student at the time, and she had just graduated so money was a huge issue. In late January we agreed to make the wedding plans (for the upcoming June) even though I couldn't afford to buy her a ring.

Valentine's Day was on a weekend, and she was coming to spend the weekend with me (we were about 200 miles apart at the time). With the help of my mom I picked out a modest diamond ring on Thursday before she was set to arrive on Friday evening. When she got to my apartment, I did the traditional down on 1 knee thing and asked her to marry me while giving her the ring (which she was obviously not expecting). We told my family of our plans that weekend, and the next weekend we told her mom. We also went to see her dad, whom I had never met. That was an interesting meeting to say the least. FWIW, her dad is old fashioned (as am I in many ways), and I did ask his permission to marry his daughter.

We have now been married for 15+ years.