I am nineteen years old and a student in Rexburg, Idaho. I am attending Ricks College and in love with a boy in Boise, named Ryan. Ryan's very talented sister and brother-in-law have written and produced a very beautiful musical, and the final show is soon. Ryan heads down to Utah to see the show with his family. I had lots of homework to do, but I blew it off and found a couple rides down to Utah to see the production down at UVSC.
I arrived and stayed at my Aunt's home. A couple hours later, a surprise walks in the door! Ryan with MY FAMILY! I didn't know that they were coming, I was just planning meeting up with Ryan and his family the next day.
The next night was the final showing of Heidi, which was absolutely beautiful. There is a love song in the show, sung as a duet with Ryan's gorgeous sister, Jayme. As I had already been introduced and knew this song word-for-word, as Ryan and I picked it as "our song."
The cast bowed as we applauded and I do believe that they received a standing ovation. After the final curtain was lowered, the audience started leaving and the cast started taking the set down. Mingling with other people as I was waiting to leave, a song (ours!) starts playing. My mom grabs me and whisks me up on the stage, where the spotlight is shining on me. Everyone hushed and gasped as Ryan appears on the stage walking toward me.
For the next 20 seconds, he's talking to me, and I see his lips moving, but I don't hear anything. It was just like the movies, everything was in slow motion. He says something like, "I love you....I picked out this ring....Will you be my wife?...." and then gets on one knee!
I was so lightheaded as he put the ring on my finger, and I realized that most everyone from the audience had filtered back in and was witnessing this extra scene, not originally in the musical! I say "yes!" and Ryan hugs me and a roar of clapping, shouting and screaming erupts.
After everything calms down, I began putting the puzzle pieces together. No wonder, most of my family is here, from my uncles to aunts, to cousins. Lots of friends from Boise were there, a lot of Holdaway's friends were there also. I guess word had gotten out amidst the audience what was going to happen, no wonder there were people smiling at me during intermission that I didn't know. Aha!
In front of the entire audience, in this big theater and in front of 150 people, he proposed September 23, 2000. Six weeks after we started dating. And yet, I honestly didn't see it coming. No wonder he was acting so weird. Today, eight years ago, I got engaged!
13 comments:
What a great story! I can't believe you didn't even question why your parents were there--or why Ryan showed up with your parents-- how funny!
I was caught up in La-La Land and was like, "Oh, that's cool that my parents wanted to go on a trip and see my boyfriend's family and stuff." My head was in the clouds!
What a cute story. Good for him for surprising you like that. Happy Anniversary of your engagement.
I can't believe I haven't heard this story, with all the time we spend in the van :). How brave of Ryan to do that in front of everyone- I wouldn't have the guts.
I remember that weekend and that night! :) you showed up on my birthday! :) and the next night you got engaged! so happy! can't believe it was that long ago! :0) Love ya ang!
what a beautiful story to pass on to your children and granchildren.
I wasn't there because I was working. I don't know I ever really got the whole story with so much detail. What a cool experience. You remember dates really well, by the way.
ahhh, what a perfect story!! I have seen pictures of your engagment before so adorable with him on one knee. I couldn't post about something like this, seeing how Ryan-my Ryan and I had 5 engagements! BUt I do remember 3 of them fairly well. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, that is the best engagement story ever! What a great guy to plan all that.
I love that story every time I have heard (which like a total of 2 times ;-) but its still great! So romantic. Your man has guts.
aaaah, I wish I would have known you enough to go give you funny looks! you know I would now!! (with a camera in hand!)
I love that story and guess what?....in a couple of days I will have a similar one on mine! :) I was planning on doing a similar blog...but it's only been a year. I love the memory of your engagement night! :)
Oh wow. Does that ever bring back memories. Thanks for reminding me of that special day. We couldn't believe that someone could possibly love you as much as we loved you...then along came Ryan. And we're totally in love with him too!! So blessed!
Hey, Ang. Let's change the settings on your blog so that every post is sent to your email. Then you can forward each one of those emails to you dad. He doesn't get to see things like this but he would if it was in his inbox. He can't surf blogs on his laptop because it's technically HP's. But he sure spends a lot of time in his email!! He would love to read this one!
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