A Princess Bride Proposal

 

Deanna & Josh

How They Met

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We met using an online dating app. After instantly hitting it off by quoting “the Princess Bride” (my favorite movie) for hours, we decided to meet up. Through our conversation we quickly realized we had been in the same places many times and knew many of the same people but had somehow never met. We feel like it was fate that brought us together at the perfect time in both our lives.

The Proposal

I am a teacher and so I was preparing for the new school year to start and had a very stressful day. Knowing that, Josh showed up to my apartment with flowers and ingredients to cook dinner. I thought it was a little odd that he didn’t put his bag in my room like normal but rather just put it down in the dining room, but because of the stress from the day I thought he was just trying to help me get dinner started and relax first. We were in the kitchen and I was starting to get the vase ready for the flowers and Josh was starting to prepare dinner. He then said to me “I have a question for you” to which I replied “ok, what’s up?”  He then said “but I have to ask it like this”.

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After a few moments of thinking it was an odd comment and that he hadn’t said anything, I turned away from the flowers to find Josh on one knee in my kitchen holding a little blue ring box. I immediately started to cry and kept asking if this was really happening. He used my full name and told me how much he loved me and would I marry him. I couldn’t stop crying. When he opened the box it was the most gorgeous ring I had ever seen and on the inside lid I saw that it had come from Princess Bride Diamonds. He smiled and said “I’ll take that as a yes?” And started putting it on my finger as I nodded and continued shaking and crying. It was simple and personal and perfect for us. He then went to his bag and pulled out a bottle of champagne and said “so we can celebrate!” And then it all made sense.

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The Engagement Ring

The engagement ring was built around the center stone which is from Josh’s mom’s wedding ring. His mom passed away 2 years ago (not long before we met) and so he wanted to incorporate her stone into the ring since I always told him that I love the engagement rings that look vintage because it feels like they have a story behind them. He worked with Princess Bride Diamonds to custom design the ring. I had asked him to go there months before because of the name of the store because it was my favorite movie. I had seen a ring there that I had fallen in love with, so he worked to change that ring to fit his mom’s stone. The band is the infinity symbol with paved diamonds. The center stone has a halo around it that is shaped like a frame with paved diamonds that gives it a unique and vintage feel. The center stone is a 1carat round princess cut diamond.

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