Some exciting news!!

Hello everyone!  We’re back from our holiday and I’m excited to share some of our wonderful experiences with you.  One of those experiences being a wonderfully special restaurant in New York who were kind enough to provide me access to the kitchen during their dinner session to take photos!  Anyway, I am busy going through the thousand photos I took while we were away, but in the meantime I though I would share some special news with you.

We got engaged!!!

Our engagement is a day we will never forget, for a variety of reasons, not least of which because of the lost engagement ring!!

My boyfriend had decided he wanted to propose on the beach in Fiji, so a couple of days after we arrived we had lunch and then strolled along the beach taking photos.  Eventually we reached a little inlet and while I was taking photos of a hermit crab my boyfriend reached into the pouch of his camera strap to take out the engagement ring ready to propose to me.  Unfortunately, the ring was nowhere to be found.

After taking photos of the crab I looked up and noticed my boyfriend had gone as white as a sheet and looked like he was about to be sick.  I asked what was wrong and he didn’t respond.  I asked again and he said “I don’t want to tell you, but we have to go back.”  That only made me worry more as I thought perhaps he had been bitten by something.  Eventually, after lots of worried questions, he admitted he was about to propose and realised the ring he had carefully placed in his camera strap pocket had somehow fallen out! I can’t begin to imagine how he felt at the moment he realised the ring was gone.

I tried to remain calm, because I knew he was feeling bad enough as it was, and we began to retrace our steps along the beach.  As we walked back along the beach, head down scanning the sand in search of the ring, we passed the resort pool, where some of the people swimming there asked if everything was ok.  My boyfriend explained what had happened, so a few people hopped out to help us search for the missing ring.

I then decided to run ahead to the restaurant, where we had had lunch, to make sure it hadn’t fallen onto the floor there.  Sadly the ring wasn’t there either.  My boyfriend eventually met me at the restaurant, not having found the ring, and we informed the restaurant manager what had happened and he said he would inform the resort security team.  He also suggested we retrace our steps again just to make sure we hadn’t missed it.

So, we scoured the beach again, and just as we reached the area where my boyfriend realised he had lost the ring he suddenly said “Here it is!”  I and the people who were helping us look for the ring turned around, in disbelief that we had been lucky enough to find it in all the sand, and there it was, lying in the sand.  He then scooped it up, got down on one knee and said “Before I have the chance to lose this again…will you do me the honour of marrying me?”.  Of course, through a stream of tears, I said yes.

I still can’t believe that we found the ring, but it was obviously meant to be.

Do you have a unique engagement story?  What’s yours?

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