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As of approximately 8:30 am this morning, Erin and I are engaged to be married!

How did I do it? Well…it wasn’t quite as dramatic as I had planned it out to be in my head, but here you go.

I’m pretty use to the consistent and harrassing marriage comments that I receive from friends and family. And to be honest, after dating Erin for close to six years, I know that it’s finally time to make it happen.

I’ve been doing a lot of diamond research over the past few months, slowly piecing together an mental picture of what I wanted for Erin. Once I knew what I wanted, I called up a family jeweler out on the east coast. I ordered the ring, and I was ready to go. What I had planned for was the amount of time I spent after the order wondering, “where the hell is that thing?” It finally arrived at my office on Wednesday afternoon. I plucked it in my bag and ran home.

Now that I had the ring, I was faced with the much more challenging part: popping the question. The plan was to take Erin back to Iowa City, the city were we first met, and propose to her over a tasty meal and a few bottles of wine. Good plan, but I was too anxious and couldn’t wait all weekend. I woke up around 6 AM, grabbed the ring from it’s hiding place, and waited in bed for her to wake up. When she woke up, she had this big, bright smile that made me so happy. I knew that it was time, I pulled it out, and she said yes.

One smile, that’s all it took.

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