Once Nate and I decided we were getting married we moved into action. We knew he would be gone basically all summer for work and didn't know when we would be able to see each other (in my head he was basically shipping out the end of April to resurface at the beginning of October and we would have NO contact until then. I now realize that's not exactly how it's going to work...but may be pretty close). I thought we were going to have no time to ring shop when we wanted to get engaged (May-June was the plan) so we should just look now so it would be easier on him later.
We actually started looking at rings pretty early. We looked 3 times at 5 different places and were done. I think the first time we "looked" was like the end of February? Maybe the beginning of March.
We happened to be at the mall one day and I told Nate we should look to start getting of some ideas and figure out what we were looking at budget wise. We found a couple very expensive ones that I liked but seeing as we were just getting started we weren't sold on anything we saw.
A week or so later we went again to another jeweler and we were both so NOT impressed. The ring we were looking at was small, and plain, and still twice our budget!
I had to go back to Idaho the next morning so we decided we would just look when I was back in town a few weeks later.
(first event)
Thursday March 15, 2012
About 2 hours before I needed to leave, Kelli called and said she had remembered her friend talking about an awesome jeweler in Salt Lake that she loved and had a great experience with. We decided we might as well go check it out real fast. We had a wonderful experience and totally recommend AAA Jewelers to anyone! They were so great and best of all SO reasonable priced! We looked for maybe 3 minutes when Nate pointed out this gorgeous split shank, square setting. It was absolutely gorgeous. And totally in our price range. We picked that ring as "the one" right there. The jeweler then asked our price range and found us the best diamond he could for our budget. I loved that about him! We totally got a steal on the ring!
I assumed Nate would come back later and purchase the ring like he said he would so that I wouldn't know he had it, blah blah blah. Well shocking to me right then and there he bought the thing! It was such a rush and so many excited emotions that we were really going to get married, that we didn't even take a picture of the thing so no one believed us!
Of course, the diamond still had to be set and it had to be re sized so we left with just a receipt and me thinking that I would had to wait at least 2 more months to be engaged to him!
Well word spread to our families and friends pretty quickly that we were getting married although he hadn't actually proposed.
People were asking if we were getting married and congratulating me but I would just respond "we aren't officially engaged yet, I don't even have a ring!"
After a few chats with my mom she finally told me, "the ring is not the important thing Lindsey. You can be engaged without a ring."
(second event I want to remember)
Easter weekend we headed up to Boise to be with my family. We also recognized this would (most likely) be Nate's last chance to see my family and ask my dad a very important question. He had told me exactly how he hoped it would go down and I of course had repeated it to my mom in hopes that she'd tip off my dad and make it easier on Nate. When we got there on Friday night we were in talking to my mom and dad for quite a while and I broke the news that we would most likely be getting October 20.
Saturday April 7, 2012
We had woken up a little early to help with the ditch clean up that somehow I had lucked out of for the past however many years. Nate got to burn the ditch with a torch and I followed behind him carrying his can of propane. It was a fun thing to do and Nate was in heaven practicing his fire skills. By the end we were sweaty and smelled like campfire.
We went inside to clean up, I hopped in the shower and Nate parked it on the couch to wait for his turn. When I came out of the bathroom i overheard my dad saying , "October 20, huh?" And my heart started racing as I knew Nate must had just asked my dad for permission to marry me!
(and this is where Nate should be writing this but I'll just have to give my best version from what he's told me).
Nate was sitting on the couch waiting for his turn to shower when my dad came in and sat down in the chair across from him and said, "so you want to marry my daughter, huh?"
Nate said it caught him a little off guard but he replied, "Uh, yea! I would love to marry your daughter!"
And basically my dad said something to the effect of, "Well good, we like you...blah blah blah"
And that is all the information I was given from either party...either way, the approval was given and the hard part was over, except he still hadn't actually asked ME to marry him.
Sunday April 8, 2012
At my parents ward of Sunday many people kept coming and asking us if we were engaged. My response was still that of, I don't have a ring but we are planning a wedding. My mom made another comment of how the ring isn't important and doesn't make a relationship last. I then told her I technically hadn't even been asked yet!
Later, my grandparents came over to congratulate us and see us.
Finally, when everyone was ready to eat my dad announced that Nate had asked for permission to marry me and that he had given his approval and was happy to have him and happy for us.
(the final moment of the weekend that I want to remember)
In the car on Sunday afternoon as we drove back to Pocatello, I told Nate that we were planning this wedding and so many people already knew we were getting married...but he still hadn't asked me to marry him. He grabbed my hand turned to look at me and as seriously as he could asked if I would marry him.
It may not have been the traditional proposal (which he did later) but it was super cute and still special because I knew without a doubt that he meant it.
So we "officially" became engaged on Sunday April 8, 2012!
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