Stephen and Amanda Morgantown, United States

Proposal Type: Romantic

Stephen and I had been dating for a little over a year and a half. We met at my church almost 4 years ago. On June 30, 2002, after our morning church service was over, we went to the grocery store to get some things. When we got there, he took off his coat jacket, and said that his phone must have fallen out at church. He said we would just run back down and look for it.

Well, when we got there, he pulled up to the door and told me to just go look for it, and he would turn the car around. No one was there, and I went to where we always sit, and his phone was there, but there was also a gift bag sitting right beside it with a card that had my name on it. I thought to myself, 'This is Stephen's handwriting'. I opened the card and he wrote about how it had almost been four years since we met, and that he use to sit further up and to my right. He said, 'Why don't we go up there for old times sake?'. He had also on the other side of the card written a poem to the song "These are a few of my favorite things". He put all of MY favorite things!! When I walked up to where he used to sit there was another bag with another card. I opened the card and it finished the rest of the poem.

There was a Precious Moments figurine in that bag. The last line of the poem said, 'But now I need to ask you something...' I stood up and Stephen walked me back up to where you start to go out of the church. We stopped right before we reached the door. He took my hand, and told me how happy I have made him for the past year and a half. He said that he wanted to make me happy for the rest of his life. He then bent down and opened the ring box and asked me to marry him. It was so romantic.

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