So I want to start this off with I had no idea he was planning to propose to me.

When Mac had decided he wanted to marry me, it was the beginning of September 2022 and he was in Hawaii with his best friend for his friends 30th birthday. The months prior to their trip, Mac and I had gotten scuba certified together. So his bestie and him were scuba diving and snorkeling. Anyways, the way it was described to me, was that Mac missed me and wished I was there with him and at that moment decided to propose.

He then called my father and asked permission. Then called my bestfriend to ask about rings and which ones I like, which she didn't know for sure at the time. So she calls me and says, " Hey I had this dream were Mac proposed to you and got you this really ugly ring. It was truly awful!" to which I started talking about chocolate diamonds... Anyways, she then continues with "... yeah, so when the time comes that Mac asks me about rings, I want to make sure you are getting a good one that you like, can you send me some photos?" We then proceeded to have a 2 hour long conversation about rings while sending each other pictures of prospective rings on Esty. Again I thought nothing of this, because this is very on brand for my best friend to randomly come at me with a weird request like this.

So Mac comes back from his Hawaii trip and that next weekend is Rose City Comicon. Mac's original idea was to propose to me at Comicon. Mac was a little sick and decided to miss it so I went with my nephew, Hunter, then hunters birthday was also that weekend. (Mac's original idea was to propose to me at Comicon.) So by the time I got home Sunday, I was exhausted. I had told Mac that I wanted the rest of the weekend to not wear pants and to relax. But for some reason unknown to me at the time, he started bugging me incessantly to go to the dog park with him. Yes he had a short sleeve button up on but I thought he was excited to feel better or something. I didn't think anything of if. So I declined multiple times to his attempts to make me leave the house. And I ended up preventing him from proposing to me at the dog park like he had planned.

The next weekend he again was trying to make me leave the house and I had told him, this weekend is for relaxing at home but he apparently had other plans. After me turning him down a second time he looked kind of upset and went back to his computer. I felt bad and told him we can do to dinner the next day, Sunday, September 18, 2022.

So we went to an all you can eat sushi and Chinese food buffet in Tigard and he didn't really talk at all through dinner. Then I suggested we go to Powell's book store in DT Portland. So off we went and once we got there, I went to Young Adult and Romance and he kept following me which is not usually how we operate at this book store. Usually he will go off and look at the anime or tech books and let me look at my books then we will meet up in the coffee room. Anyways after shooing him away I picked like 3 books after browsing. I headed to the coffee room to wait for him but he was just coming out of stack of books and walked with me asking about the books I picked. I then proceeded to tell him about them and another series that was similar and ended up talking for like 20 minutes. So the coffee room closes at 8p on Sunday's and it was 7:55p so I started to pack up to go maybe sit somewhere else and look at my books or leave if Mac was done. But Mac asked, "so is it my turn to talk now?" with a smile on his face. I told him sure but the coffee room was closing and we need to leave. So he launches into this spiel about how great his life is with me in it and how he loves me so much. I kind of blocked out the words once I realized what he was doing. He then drops down on one knee, between the tables, as all the employees are staring at us kind of irritated, waiting for us to leave so they can clean up, and asks me to marry him. I quickly said yes, with a huge smile on my face, kissed him, grabbed my books and his hand and pulled him from the coffee room. I was giggling with him all the way to the register to purchase my books. He offers to pay for them and then we leave. We get in the car and have the freak-out moment of, "oh my god! WE'RE ENGAGED!" laughing and kissing each other.

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