On New Year’s Eve we drove to the Washington D.C. Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to see the Festival of Lights. While there we talked about our journey together and the new year ahead. We talked about marriage and family and at the end of this conversation and we agreed to be together forever. He asked me what kind of ring I wanted, and I said "I want a ruby, because it's precious". This conversation marked our unofficial engagement.

We were excited, but Naresh still wanted to surprise me with an official engagement proposal. I knew this was coming, but I had no idea when and how he would do it. He told he couldn't find a ruby, I was sad and told him a sapphire is my other choice. During my visit he apologized that he had orderered a ring and shipping was delayed. That meant we would have no ring for our scheduled engagement photoshoot and he was sorry. I said it is okay what matters is we are going to be together forever and we would proceed with the photoshoot as planned. On 03.22.23 I went to our engagement photoshoot with no ring (I mentioned it to him and he said not to worry and just enjoy the shoot 😊). While taking our pictures and he got on one knee and asked me to marry him (and it was a Ruby), I said ‘YES’ again.

We are so excited to celebrate with you.

See you in Virginia!