Hi!
I would love to tell you our story. It’s a long one but I will try to shorten it to 500 words.
Originally, Gerry, my fiance and I met through eHarmony in 2004, although we never actually met. We were matched up, corresponded through multiple choice questions and that was as far as it got. Bad timing.
Then in 2005, we met again on Jdate but this time we actually had a date and met! But that didn’t get off the ground because, again, bad timing. Very bad timing! The day after our date, my fiance’s mother passed away unexpectedly! She wasn’t even sick! My fiance actually called to tell me this because he didn’t want me to think he was blowing me off which I thought was so nice considering what he was going through. With all that he had to do, we just went out one more time but his head wasn’t in it and I had 2 jobs at the time and was going to school at night so it just didn’t work out.
Then in April of 2009, I decided to send Gerry an e-mail because I was wondering how he was. Well, he was in a bad relationship and I was having one bad date after another so we remained friends sharing our horror stories until October of 2009. Gerry found himself single again so we started spending more time together until November 15, 2009 when Gerry kissed me and the next day I was invited to his family Thanksgiving dinner. Must have been some great kiss because exactly 2 years (and 1 day) later, Gerry proposed to me.
We had planned to have a 2 year anniversary dinner, but being a teacher, I had parent teacher conferences so we planned our dinner for the next night, November 16, 2011. That night ended up being very meaningful to me because it was my aunt’s birthday who passed away in 2005. We were very close so it meant a lot to see Gerry that night. Anyway, Gerry came to my apt. with a dozen red roses. I thought they were beautiful and thanked Gerry but had no idea what Gerry was planning later in the evening. As a matter of fact, I was going to have a “talk” with him that coming weekend about where the relationship was going after 2 years.
After dinner, we came back to my apt. where I was going to make Gerry a chocolate smoothie with the chocolate I bought in Colorado over the summer. I couldn’t get the can opened so I asked my strong man to do it as I left the room for a minute. While in the other room, I heard the top of the can hit the floor and thought there must be chocolate all over the room so I came running in.
Gerry was in the kitchen down on one knee and there was no chocolate anywhere so I asked, “What are you doing down there?” See how clueless I was? Gerry had it all planned out what he was going to say but with that question, he got flustered and the only thing he could think of was, “I want you to marry me!” Of course, I said, I mean, screamed, YES!
And that’s how it all happened. We are planning on getting married on June 3rd, 2012, less than a month away! I can’t wait!!
Thanks for listening to our story.
Karyn