I will never look at bathrooms the same...

It is the engagement post!




Mr. FMB took charge on the wedding website to write the story of the true engagement....

"The idea to get engaged, as you see above, was hardly romantic. The proposal itself was also set up to be a formality, this would fit into a 4 hour time slot somewhere between asking her father and the rest of the family coming over to celebrate, (it had been widely publicized that we were getting engaged). The tight timing came about, of course, due to the long distance relationship, Mr. FMB was only to be in town for 2 weeks, and the only time we'd see the parents was that first Saturday.

In an attempt to try and inject some romance into the proposal, Mr. FMB arrived 2 days before schedule, drove to Miss FMB's parents house and sought her fathers blessing. The next day, still ahead of schedule, Mr. FMB arrived in Boston.

It had been his plan to catch Miss FMB at rugby, this was thwarted through injury, a second plan was to propose to her just before she left work for the day. Plan B was also struck down, Miss FMB had not been feeling well and left work early to go to bed. Plan C saw Mr. FMB buy wine cheese and nice bread, (things Miss FMB like) and sneak up the back stairs to her house.

This was fortunately timed with Miss FMB going down the front stairs to check the mail. Mr. FMB was going to be in the hallway on her return, but after the ring got stuck in his pocket, he dove into the first room, the bathroom, the dog followed him in. Miss FMB opened the door to release the dog, whilst Mr. FMB hid behind the door. A couple of seconds later the door opened again to reveal Mr. FMB on one knee."

So the summary of the story- he proposed to me in the bathroom.

But there are a few big parts missing from his version:
"Tony arrived 2 days before schedule"- When forwarding me his British Airways ticket Tony took painstaking time to correct the dates for his two day early arrival. However later we realized in the subject title he had never corrected it. I never noticed anyways.

"drove to Kerianne's parents house"- This is actually a very complicated feat. First Mr. FMB is still 24 so renting a car is ridiculous. We should also mention that he is a Brit and drives on the wrong side of the road. Mr. FMB had previously driven the three and a half our drive back to my house with me before... but due to fear for my life I usually do not let him drive. The fact that I still have Mr. FMB alive is the big surprise because someone at the car rental decided to give him this as a free upgrade:

"Mr. FMB arrived in Boston"- Mr. FMB took the wrong exit coming back into Boston and spent two hours driving in circles around Harvard square- driving by my road several times.

"ring got stuck in his pocket"- Mr. FMB was dressed to the nines in his newly bought suit. What was interesting about the suit was the inside.... the liner was actually hiding Joesph's Amazing Technicolor Dream coat!

But the biggest part he left out was what was inside that box. We for weeks had discussed rings under $150 due to practicality. But Mr. FMB not only had something up his pocket but something up his sleeve-

My bespoke ring. Technically called a "compass set princess cut diamond in a white gold twist setting. It makes my finger very happy and I love it!


Lastly- I should mention that Mr. FMB had been planning this all along and decided it would be fun to confuse me by having me pick out other rings :)