Project Wedding Blog

I love looking down at my left hand at my “sparkly” as I call my engagement ring. It is beautiful and sparkly and gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling every time I look down. It says that I am betrothed to another, that someone out there loves me enough to spend two months’ salary. (:

Some time ago, my fiancé and I went look at wedding bands. Every time he put a ring on that he liked, his eyes lit up and I noticed this right away. My next thought was “why can’t he have an engagement ring too”? Something that would brighten his day when he looked down at HIS left hand, something that would come from my heart AND something that would tell the world that I own him! LOL!

I planned this carefully and he had no idea that it was coming. I purchased the ring on www.pyramidcollection.com. The inside of the ring reads “Now and Forever” and the same thing outside in Gaelic. I stopped at a bakery that sells red velvet cupcakes (his absolute favorite) and planned to cook a really nice dinner. I got home, started cooking and set the table for a romantic dinner for two. I placed the ring in a sticky note that read “will you marry me” and put them both in the cupcake box and told him that he was not allowed to open it until after dinner. Such torture!

We ate dinner and I could tell that he could hardly contain himself to open the little bakery box. He knew what was in there because of the shape of the box, but he didn’t REALLY know what was in there, now did he? He opened the box, picked up the sticky note and unwrapped the ring. He read the note and looked at me with a questioning look on his face. He asked “for real” and I said “yes, for real”. He started smiling like crazy and slipped the ring on. It was the same look that I had so many weeks ago when he was trying on wedding bands. He finds happiness in wearing the ring and what it means.

He and I joke all the time that now I own him and the only reason I gave him the ring was so that other girls would know that he was taken, but we both know the real reason. It is because I love him, because I can’t wait to marry him and because I want him to remember these things every time he looks down at his left hand.