Little did I know that when I signed up for Match.com, I would become one of “those couples” you see on the commercials. I had only signed up for one month of the online service, so when James contacted me with a week left in my membership, I knew I had to make this happen. Typically, I’m extremely cautious, but something just felt right! After a very brief “online courtship” of a week, James and I met in March of 2007. Our first date was wonderful. We simply met for dinner and ended up the last couple in the restaurant. There was instant chemistry, easy conversation and I was a nervous wreck! James and I had only three dates (three wonderful dates mind you!) before he left for Europe for three weeks. We left it at “I’ll call you when I get back.” And this was after I literally RAN out of his car, fearing the dreaded awkwardness of “the first kiss.” I had a bet with my mother that I would never see him again, she bet against me! I figured he’d go off to Greece and marry some beautiful Greek girl, never to return. With about a week to go in his trip, I received an email. I was completely shocked, totally excited, and could not be happier that I could lose a bet (not something that comes easy to me!). He had snuck away from family for a few hours to use the dial-up internet in a small café in the village to email me. How romantic! He returned home to New England and we planned our next date, and our next date, and the next.

Fast forward five years. We both relocated for new careers and bought our first home. A bit backwards some thought. “You start a new career and purchase a home together, and you have not gotten a ring yet?” I heard it all. I was not worried. I knew I was meant to spend my life with this man. I had never known was it was like to truly be in love with someone. I mean, it is five years later and he STILL gives me butterflies! We were in our new home for a few months before he proposed. He had always told me I would be totally surprised, and boy did he mean it. After several weeks of planning (and several weeks of me ruining it!), James popped the question in a fashion true to himself, after watching a horror movie! Starting as a lazy pajama movie night, only James knew what was about to come. He made a picture book documenting our five years of blissful togetherness! As I read and laughed, read some more and cried, I get to the last page, and there was James, on bended knee, holding a cupcake (my obsession!) with what was way better than a cherry on top. It was a perfect engagement ring! “Krystal Johnson, will..you..marry..me?” There were many more tears, naturally a sarcastic “I’ll have to think about it!” remark, followed by an emphatic “A million times YES!” It was perfect and above all else, it was through and through us. Nothing fancy, not too over the top, just perfect!

James and I went to a very small school of about hundred students per grade level, so you knew pretty much everyone in your grade. James’ family moved to Lynchburg in 8th grade from Cincinnati. I remember him being a new kid in my American History class. As we entered high school we pretty much just knew each others name. We did not hang out with the same friends or participate in the same extra curricular. I spent most of my time in sports and organization and he spent what time he was allowed with friends. We did not have another class together until Junior year gym class. He had a girl friend, who happened to have the same birthday as me and I would always joke around about it. One day before class started I was sitting with my best friend and James came over and asked what I would do it he asked me to go to homecoming with him. I stood up and said “I’d say that I’d go with your mom” and walked away. At this time I did not realized a couple things. One, he was being serious. Two, his mother and him did not have a very good relationship. Number three that he was single. And lastly that he would be my prince charming. The next week James asked me out to our school’s basketball homecoming again. Figuring I was a little mean before and that I had nothing to lose, I said yes.

That night lead into a couple more dates, officially being “high school official” Still being pretty reserved I did not know about James’ home life and had a really hard time dealing with him not getting along with his mom since I was so close to mine. Eventually I ended things.

Some time passed and we remained friends and went to movies. One night I received and phone call from an unknown number. It was James. Things at his home had finally reached the breaking point and he was no longer living at home and the state was pressing charges on his mother.

With more openness in our relationship and better understanding we decided to try things again. Spent most of the summer together before our Senior year. James moved out of his parents and was forced to grow up a lot sooner that he needed to. We were voted “cutest couple” for yearbook. Our relationship was doubted a lot, saying we were too young. However, ever since May 5th 2007 James has been my rock.

He has been there when my alternator in my car went out at 1:30 in the morning. Crazy mass studying in college all night and even my own home issues.

On May 5th, 2012 at my college graduation party James purposed in front of all my family and friends. It was great. On May 18th, 2013 I will say “I Do” to a man I know who will be there for the rest of my life.
Heck he has even helped me plan the wedding.

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This is more than just an engagement story; it’s a story that circles the globe and transcends time and space. Sure, my fiance popped the question by my lovely garden on my balcony, but so many things led up to that culminating moment on May 4, 2012. Allow me to explain..

I met Eric in December of 2008 when my friend Jessica dragged me over to his house to hang out after a tacky Christmas sweater party. I’d seen him in passing when I refereed intramural games, but this was the first time I’d legitimately hung out with him. There was UNC stuff all over his house, so I was instantly down to be friends with this guy from Asheville, NC.

Over the next semester, Eric and I got closer and I learned new words like “raw” and “unreal.” He was the one I went to when I needed a shoulder to cry on because he was such a good friend. After one of my heart to hearts with Eric, my mother actually made the comment, “You know you’re going to end up with Eric someday.” I mean, I loved going to bonfires, Fox & Hound, Lookouts games, and just hanging out with him, but I was [unfortunately] distracted by one of his friends. I wanted this other guy, so Eric was automatically put in the friend zone. I even tried to hook him up with my roommate. I specifically remember April 30, 2009 when he took me on a lunch date to Moe’s for my birthday. After he dropped me off at my apartment that day, I cried and secretly regretted that I’d fallen for the wrong guy.

Fast forward to December 2009. Eric and I were still close as I left for my student teaching trip to Thailand. Over the 2-month trip, my feelings for Eric’s friend disappeared and I was over the whole situation. I felt like God was calling me back to Thailand so I signed a contract to return the day after graduation in May and teach for a year. I hadn’t seen much of Eric, so one day after a trip to the Bistro with my girl Sierra, we were on our way to get Zaxby’s when I made the split-second (clutch!) decision to call him up and see what he was doing. He didn’t answer, so I just asked Sierra to stop by his house since it was on the way. I knocked and didn’t even wait for an answer before just opening up the door and walking in. (I had a new-found “YOLO” complex that resulted from the idea of graduation and moving across the world I guess.) I went straight up and hugged Eric, talked for a minute, and we decided to hang out that night. (I might have mentioned that I wanted to kiss him, too.) I didn’t actually think he would come over, but he did. He came over, we talked, and the lightbulb just went {{{DING}}}. It’s like everything in the world made sense that night. Eric was the one I should have been with the entire time. He was right in front of me, and I never truly saw him. Despite his words during our many heart-to-hearts, his not-so-subtle tweets, his silence when he was angry with me for fawning after the other guy…I never knew until that night how he felt about me. That night I realized I felt the same way.

Things got a little weird before graduation, but my newly-discovered feelings for Eric were overwhelming. I wrote him a letter and gave it to him at our post-graduation goodbye. I didn’t expect a fairy tale ending, but I truly cared for him as  more than just a friend. My world changed that day as I drove away from his house sobbing and I knew that I was head over heels in love with Eric Thomas. While I was in Thailand, we ended up Skyping nearly everyday. My iPhone was constantly blowing up with messages from him, and I loved every second of it. The saying, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” couldn’t be more true. The distance was terrible and hard, but looking back, it instilled a sense of trust and commitment that I think makes us stronger together. When I moved back to America, I ended up finding a job in Hickory, North Carolina and after much prayer and planning, made the move from “across the world” to “across the street” from Eric. It took some getting use to, being the real-life couple, but it grew easy as we never stopped being best friends. It’s not everyday you find a guy that will work out with you, make up silly R&B songs about you, and choose to hang out with you over a million other options. Just sitting around doing nothing for an entire weekend is fun if I get to do it with Eric. The #1 thing on my BucketList is to marry my best friend, and it thrills me that I get to mark that off the list soon. Eric really is a dream come true. He’s the man I’ve always prayed for, and I know God uses him to make me a better person. I love him more than words can express.

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Daring First Kiss Wedding Engagement Story

It all began in 7th Grade. Bobby O’Neill was dared to French kiss me at a birthday party of a mutual friend and after the kiss, we didn’t speak for 9 years. I went off to boarding school and he continued going to school at the high school near our home town.  He joined the United States Army and was studying at West Point, I had graduated from the University of North Carolina and was back in PA.  As I have a passion for cooking and I baked up a storm, I realized we had a new neighbor who was taking care of 4 boys.  Unknowingly, I was bringing food to our next door neighbor, Rosie, who had just moved in and happened to be his Aunt. She was insistent upon setting us up.  Well, of course he came back to visit one weekend after a Rugby game and she paired us up. We went out to a local brewery that night and really hit it off and began dating long distance.  Although it was tough, we were able to drive the 12 hours back and forth almost every weekend.  I had a job in DC and he was finishing his senior year at West Point.

After we had been together for about a year and a half, he decided we should get engaged. The night before Christmas, we were at my parents’ house, there was a fire in the fireplace in the living room and he knows how much I adore fires during the winter. Every Christmas my family gets together with our life long friends and we were continuing the tradition.  Since he did not know the friends as well, I assumed he was nervous meeting them.  I kept my attention on him and offered him beer every so often.  Thinking nothing more of the situation, I continued entertaining our friends and eventually he wanted to go see some of his family. Before we left, my mom asked me to wear something nicer (I thought it was odd, but didn’t mind) and we went to see his family. After about 2 hours, we returned to my parents’ house and got back to the festivities. Everyone was in the kitchen and he told me the fire was dying. Worried, I rushed into the next room, to throw logs on the fire, dove onto my knees to adjust the fire, when I felt him pulling me off the ground. (in my head, I was thinking, FINE, IF YOU DON’T LIKE HOW I FIX IT, DO IT YOURSELF!) But he sat me on a wooden bench and began to bend down, but instead of fixing the fire, he pulled out a small wooden box with a beautiful ring in it. Instantly I began crying and he told me that he loved me and proposed marriage.  I didn’t know it, but my brother had to hold onto my mom, so that she wouldn’t rush in and take a million pictures.  When we joined the rest of our family, everyone celebrated with champagne and we had a great end to the night by riding through the snowy woods on an off-roading 4 Wheeler.  It was the happiest I have ever been in my life and my entire family was thrilled too.

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We met at a mutual friends barbeque, 0n June 9, 2008 we spent the entire evening talking before we knew it, it was morning and the sun had come up.  Neither one of us could believe that we sat there all night talking and didn’t even realize how late or should I say early it was getting.  It felt like we had known each other forever, it was comfortable talking and no awkwardness.  It was just amazing how we just could not stop sharing each other lives with one another.  We planned our first date to take one of my grandchildren and one of his grandchildren to a county fair.

A BBQ Wedding Engagement Story

Well, before we knew it, our first date went from the two of us with our 2 grandchildren at the time to our entire family, my daughters decided they wanted to come with their spouses, then his children decided to come with their spouses and then my mother decided that she wanted to also attend.    Then of course the mutual friends wanted to come with their children. So, our first date consisted of I believe 20 people! Yes, I would definitely say that we survive our first date.  Well, we managed to get through our first date and continued dating for the next 4 years, of course with the family in close quarters of our relationship.  It so seemed that we were on our way….all the children got along and still do.  They have meshed into a family and so now we finally decided to join this family and set our wedding date to be May 18, 2013. Even though we have been together 4 years, it seems like only yesterday, time has definitely escaped us.  We love to spend time with each other and our family.  We are both very excited about our up-coming wedding.  I guess I could also tell you about the proposal.

We live in Texas, but he works in New Jersey this makes for some difficult times, but nothing we haven’t overcome.  My family is originally from the town he works in, so I was home visiting my brother, when he got off from work, we decided to go to Atlantic City with my family.  It was a beautiful day and we were walking the boardwalk.

That evening we were getting ready for dinner and we were looking out of the window at the Bogata Resort Hotel over looking the Atlantic City Boardwalk and the beautiful ocean.  What a beautiful site it was when he looked at me and said…..Will you marry me?  I was shocked, did not expect it and did not respond quickly.  I think I was in shock!….Well, of course I said yes!  Well, we then went to dinner with my family and shared the news with my mom, my brother and his wife, my two nephews were there and a very close family member and his wife.  They we all so very happy for us and now here we are planning our wedding and looking forward to a fantastic future!

And there you have it … our engagement story.

Heart Warming Wedding Engagement Story

My fiancé and I met at a mutual friend’s house-warming party. I had actually heard his unique name, Yitzi, spoken several times before but had not met him until years later. We met again at the same friend’s board game party, which turned into a couple’s party by chance, as we were teamed up to play games like Scrabble. He is good at using high point letters and spaces, and making up where he lacks, I am a pretty decent speller. Combining our talents, we beat the two other teams, and Yitzi flirted with me as we played. Days later, I invited our friend to a concert, and he suggested I invite Yitzi, which I thought was a good plan. It turns out, our friend thought we would be a good match and was trying to set us up. We sat in the back of the bar concert, talking via texting on our cell phones most of the night because it was too loud to talk. Eventually, we went up front to enjoy the headliner and dance in a silly manner. When it was over, not ready to go home, I asked him if he wanted to go for a walk, as we were in the city (both of us being from the suburbs). We decided we would walk to the St. Louis arch, which was much further than we realized, and we never made it. I used my new iPhone GPS to get us back to our cars, as we had gotten slightly lost.

The next evening, in an attempt to avoid my college homework, I went to see him–he was by this time our friend’s roommate, and I pretty much never left after that. We watched a movie that first night, and I quickly fell asleep after the late night we had had before. Being the shy, inexperienced guy that he was, he was in a state of euphoria to have me over at all, even if I was sleeping. Every day after school and work, I would come over to hang out with him, often having to do homework there. We have only spent two nights apart since, only a couple weeks into our relationship when I went to Chicago for my cousin’s wedding. The very next weekend, we took a road trip there together to go to another concert, fabric shop (I was a fashion design major in need of fabric for my senior collection), enjoy the sights of Navy Pier, the deep dish pizza of Gino’s East, and the ferris wheel, where he told me he loved me for the first time. We had a fantastic trip, despite only spending two days and one night there. Only about two and a half months into our relationship, on my birthday, he impulsively asked me to marry him, and I said yes. We shopped for a ring we both loved and waited until it was on my finger three weeks later, just after Christmas to announce it to family and friends. We are having a long engagement, three years, as we save up to pay for the wedding of our dreams ourselves. It has been over a year, and we are still just as strong as when we first got together. He is amazing and treats me unlike any other guy I’ve been with, with respect.

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We meet at our university Florida International in Miami, FL two years ago. We felt in love since the moment we saw each other. We have gone through so many hardships since then but our love has grown and become stronger each day. Our engagement was different maybe not what I expected or what I have dreamed for but our situation has been different since the moment we decided to move in together and the drama and problems with my family.

Chris proposed to me right after his grandmother pass away and at the same I was at the hospital. I guess the shock to lose someone that I grew to love as my own grandmother was too big to handle. She was the grandmother I never had. I will miss her a lot in our wedding day but I know she will be there with my grandma.

I have just left the hospital and I had a work meeting I had to go and Chris was going to go with me. What I didn’t know is that he was going to park on a parking lot on the way to the meeting and popped the question. I was in shock and I remember telling him not here babe but he didn’t listen. He told me that by proposing then he wanted to show me that he supported me on everything my job, my health problems, and my family. Then he asked me if I wanted to marry him. I said yes and we are happy planning our wedding.

I first meet my fiancee when I was young let’s just say since I was 7 yrs old he was best friend with my older sister. When I was 14 yrs we dated for 2 1/2 years we were so in love but young. He was so loving and wonderful to me always giving me roses every other day. He used to cut them from his mother garden or the next door neighbors . But my patents had to move and we moved to another state. We had to break up because I didn’t know when we were coming back.

Years went by well exactly 11 years and 1 month and I always remembered him because he always was so wonderful to me and Loving. He always gave me roses,  wrote love letters and spoil me   one day in August 7, 2012 my cousin Eric called me from NY and said hey there is this guy here asking for you do you know him and as soon as he said his name I was so shocked my heart was pounding (apparently he knew my cousin and knew we were cousins).  My cousin said he wants to say HI…. As soon as I heard his voice I was like I can’t believe it is you. I immediately gave him my number and we spoke all night till the next morning at 7 am. Just remembering old times and how our lives were after we had separated.

Since then we talked every day all day and text all the time. He was living in NY and I live in Texas. That was a bummer but didn’t matter. It was so funny the we both never married, had no kids we just worked and always were in bad relationships. Then in October he asked me to be his girlfriend and I said to let’s give us some time cause he was in NY and I was in TX. We still continued to talk every day until he asked me out again on February 4th and I said yes. I went to NY on March 20th to see each other for the first time after 11 years and it was so wonderful he just hugged me and we hugged for at least 5 min and said 11 years of not seen you… it was such a beautiful feeling I got no words to express how wonderful the feeling was. We went out to eat on the 21st for Dinner at a restaurant and after we finished eating he got down on 1 knee and asked me to marry him and I said yes.

Since then we have been planning our wedding.  I fly constantly to NY and he flies to TX. Both our families are so happy we are getting married and it’s so wonderful how my parents love him and how his parents love me. All our friends and family always tell us love always finds it’s way home and y’all were always meant to be. We are so in love and ready to start our lives together. We are getting married on February 02, 2013. Which will be 2 days before we started dating.  Can’t wait to be together forever. In this life and the next.

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