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July 4th of 2008 I took Jen to a small, local movie-theater to see a popular Disney-Pixar film. She was not so thrilled on the way, since we were going to see a supposed kids movie, but went along with it. Little did she realize that about 40 of our friends and family were waiting in that dark little theater for us. When the trailers started the room was quiet, with the exception of the critics about two rows behind us analyzing every movie trailer with their own redneck brand of "Siskel and Ebert."
Finally, the moment I had been waiting for. The last trailer came up, I was fighting the urge to look over at Jen to see whether she picked up on what was going on. Just as I could feel her looking at me and waiting to see if I would meet her gaze I hear Siskel call out from behind us, "this movies looks awful...it looks like someone's old home movies!" I quickly brushed off the comments from an obviously ignorant fan and turned to see Jen staring intently at the trailer as her life literally flashed before her eyes.
The trailer ended and the lights came up throughout the theater. I stood Jen up and dropped down on one knee. At that moment Jen realized all the people positioned on the other side of the theater staring and waiting, she looked back at me as I asked her whether she would marry me and all she could answer was "the ring is upside down..." ;o\
Typical...a guy goes through all that work and screws up the delivery...Thankfully, her response was quickly followed by a "yes."
Siskel must have finally put two and two together. As I knelt there with one knee on the cold concrete of that old movie-theater I could hear her yelling, "oh my God, he's proposing!"
With my answer sealed, I quickly whisked Jen through the parade of our friends and family to greet the cheering throng.
How did you propose? What's your favorite proposal story?
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