So sadie very heavily summarized what happened, but there’s a lot of things that went on behind the scenes of the proposal. First and foremost, I actually had a way fire plan. Then, when that one fell apart unexpectedly, I had a way fire backup plan. When that one fell apart though, it was scramble time. But hey, it was perfect for us. Nothing went as planned, and it was beautiful and amazing in its own way, fitting for our relationship.
I had been planning on May 3rd for a while. It was about 4 months after we had met for the first time, and it was exactly 3 months from the day we would be married, which we had already planned. Sadie’s favorite number is also 3, and so it felt like a sign hahaha. Anyways, my original plan was to take her to the tulip festival and then take her up to our special spot in American Fork, where I would have a bunch of flowers and a cute setup made. I had a friend who was a photographer that I had hired to come and take some real, nice photos of the moment. It was all gonna be so perfect, until two days before the proposal, when the photographer had to bail. She said she couldn’t do it until Saturday morning anymore, which really threw a wrench in everything. However, hope was not lost. Sadie’s cousin was in town, and there was a perfect setup for a backup plan. The new plan was to take her to the tulip festival, hyping her up to believe it would be Friday night when I proposed. After the festival, I would take her to go do something with her cousin, knowing full well that she would be so upset with me. I then would have her cousin take her to our special spot on Saturday morning, where the setup and photographer would be waiting, and she would ultimately forgive me. It was perfect. Until her cousin had to fly out early Saturday morning. That ultimately destroyed the backup plan. And so, after a short convo with Sadie’s cousin, we came to the conclusion that were I not to propose to her on Friday, she might never forgive me. Thus, plan 3 was a go. Unfortunately, plan 3 was not so much a plan as an absolute scramble to try and make the night memorable. And that meant I needed a lot of help. The original plan stayed the same. I took her to the tulip festival, which was fun. However, while we were there, I had my roommate (the same one from our story!) grab some tulips and go to our spot to be able to take some photos of the moment. However, as he got to our spot, he decided that the lighting wouldn’t be good enough. He then texted me as we were about to leave the festival saying that he needed time to find another spot. Hence, we went for a quick peek at the waterfall. After, we hopped in the car and started heading to the canyon. I was in talks with my roommate the whole time, and he thought he found a spot. That is, until we were just about there and he called me, telling me he needed more time. He said he needed about 10 more minutes. So Sadie and I entered the canyon, and after a short time, I asked her how long we had been going. She said about 10 minutes, and so we turned around and headed to my roommates location. As we were heading towards him, he decided that he needed 5 more minutes, and so we pulled over on the side of the road and shot the breeze. Finally, we headed to his location, which lead us to a trailhead through a neighborhood that I had never been to before. Originally, I thought it was wrong, until I saw his car nearby. Then we started our climb, originally sticking to the trail before eventually veering off and stumbling through the wilderness up the side of what felt like an actual mountain. Once we reached the top, we found the tulips my roommate laid out (a signal that he was there to take the pictures) and admired the view for a few seconds before the time came. To be quite honest, I was a nervous wreck the whole day, fumbling over what to do and say. I didn’t want to be super cringe, but I wanted the moment to be tender and sweet. So I prepared some thoughts to share, and had it all planned, until the entire day proved to be absolutely chaotic. After that, I just scrapped it and decided to speak from my heart, no exact script, just trying to capture the moment. But, because I know she’ll want to read this and remember what I was planning (I already told her) it was gonna go something like this. I was gonna tell her about how it felt so different, even from the first date. I was gonna tell her that I knew I loved her after only officially dating her about a month. That I knew there was no one on the planet that I connected with better, that fed off of my energy and made me the happiest, craziest version of myself. I was gonna tell her that nothing was the same since I met her, that I couldn’t go 2 minutes without thinking of her (really a tragedy, especially when you’re taking some really hard classes at the same time. We made it though, no worries). I was gonna tell her that for the first time, I found someone that I truly could never be without. Sadie really is the love of my life. It’s unbelievable that I went 21 years without her.

These are all things that I planned on saying, and there was more that I’ve unfortunately forgotten. Instead, I decided to talk about the chaos that ensued that day. It was so wild, so much of a frenzy, and yet, to me, it felt so perfect. It was so fitting for us. Our relationship started off crazy, and everything about it has been totally crazy as well. However, and I don’t know how to explain it, the crazy of our relationship is perfect, and I wouldn’t change it for the world. It’s that crazy, that turmoil that makes me want her forever. I’m truly the happiest I’ve ever been, and I wouldn’t change what we have for the world. I told her all of this, though she doesn’t actually remember it. In conclusion, I was going to ask her if she remembered the day that she described our relationship in one word. She said that it was perfect. I loved that. I said that for me, it was forever. I couldn’t imagine a day without her, and knew that I needed her with me through it all. I then asked her if she would do forever with me. I can’t even begin to describe how lucky I am that she said yes.